The continents are moving. When will they collide? - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
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- Dig into the science of plate tectonics to find out when the next supercontinent will emerge- and how it could affect Earth’s environment.
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In the early 20th century, Alfred Wegener's theory of Continental Drift laid the foundation for our modern theory of plate tectonics. And today we know something even more exciting: Pangea was only the latest in a long lineage of supercontinents, and it won’t be the last. Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl explores when the next supercontinent will emerge - and what it might mean for Earth’s environment.
Lesson by Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, directed by Iuri Araujo, Província Studio.
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Reject multiple continents, return to Pangea.
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Nah, continents fans unite💪🏻💪🏻🥶🗿
Join all land masses and let's all have a big free for all paintball deathmatch
Sure that gonna end well
As a person who live back in Pangea, I hope it really returns as they said. Ahhh the nostalgia
Greetings from Gondwana
@@chedmirandax how do you feel now about the break up? I heard it took million of years until things finally settled down.
Hello from Laurentia!
As a person who was alive for the past 50 million years, I can confirm this is true.
As a person who's from the future I can tell that another supercontinent forms in the future.
As a person who has exams this week i don't care
Thank you for the confirmation
😂
@@SaifKhan-wu4jt Boards ? 😂
As a tectonic plate, I can confirm this is what really happens
When did you get the name Robert Frackson?
@@stevenaltos8821 the earth fractured into plates so he made that his last name, and he just felt like a robert
@@TuxedoDogss Ahhhh, of course. Thanks for clearing that up.
Bold of you to assume humans will exist after 50 million years
they could, if we survive a few hundred more years I think we will survive 50 million years or much more
Well, dinosaurs survived to more than 200 million years...
@@thomasphilip2892 dinosaurs weren't trying to self destruct
@@thomasphilip2892 they didn't have nukes tho
@@thomasphilip2892 they didn't polute the atmosphere and deplete the natural resources of the planet at a more rapid rate than it could generate
If only we could all be there to experience it all
I was disappointed to hear that it will take place after 50 million years. 🥲
@@the1stmetalhead It atleast saves you the earthquakes
Wtf 🤣 wanna experience earthquakes /tsunamis/etc.?😂 At least you won't experience that nightmare
Ted ed is truly the best teaching channels out here in CZcams.
It'd be really cool to see a sci-fi story about the far future in which the Earth's continents have inevitably merged together.
No more naval wars, just artillery and tanks
Super interesting, as always TED-Ed. Thanks!
I think in less than 50 million years we would already be exploring space.
I don't think we are far from that, maybe it could happen much sooner than that.
100 years later we might be building a mars house, not even as long as 5 million years
@@eee_eee more than just a mars house. we would have hopefully built numerous bases/colonies throughout the solar system, providing us with a stepping stone to allow us in the following millenia to possibly expand our presence beyond the solar system.
This channel is amazing.
I agree
well said mah friend
Hopefully more land is created so I can finally buy a house lol
Lol, with the tectonic shift and cyclones and earthquakes taking place. I don't think it would be wise to purchase a new property.
With such a dynamic planet as ours, it very easy for evidence of past civilisations to turn to dust
Past civilizations were thousands of years ago whereas pangaea was many millions of years ago. So not possible for continental drift to have erased signs if past civilizations. Unless you think Neanderthals had, reading, writing and philosophy 😄
@@J.5.M. i think he's talking about civilizations that existed before continental drifts and before pangaea, like, REALLY ancient civilizations
@@JamesBond-uz4lc Exactly, they have even been reports of finding human made objects that are so old, they predate even the earliest civilisation
@@J.5.M. even if they had, I don't think we'll ever know😅
A few days ago i was talking about this exact method of somehow sending back the carbon and storing them under ground as rock or carbon solids. We have invented enough machines to produce greenhouse gasses in all different ways but still stuck with trees to have them disposed. So, we might have to find ways to get the carbon in the atmosphere to be stored as carbon rich rocks under ground putting them back where they belong.
New Continent: I 'm here
Mass Destruction: Ohh, Hello there!
This is a fabulous presentation! Thank you!! YOu have just enough intrigue woven through it to peak my students' interest without freaking them out.
The fact I ethnically belong to Himalayas and live there and the fact we have been getting warning that a earthquake due to tectonic plates movements larger than that of Turkey can hit us anytime soon... and this video came I my recommendation.
Sensational video.
Alligning with myself is the movement I'm intrested in! That actually has more effect on my life than the moving continents IMHO.
I am really excited to be a member of Pangea.
*50 million years to come up with a solution*
Cameraman: Time is but an idea.
I LIKE THE WAY HOW HUMANS ARE SO CONCERNED ABOUT ISSUES THAT ARE GONNA HAPPEN IN MILLIONS OF YEARS BUT THE CURRENT PROBLEMS.
Yeah.. sad right 😢
Relevant with recent events.
Came here for education, left with an existential crisis
It took me back to the time of traveling by foot anywhere on Pangea when I wasn’t alive 😮
Today is my birthday. Maybe I could get a heart from Ted-Ed?
Is there a way to collect the the energy release during an earthquake?...I mean if we could redirect that force into a different channel maybe we'll be able to reduce the destruction.
at least people will come closer
As someone who lived on the supercontinent named Vaalbara in the Eoarchean era, I can indeed confirm that this is true
cant wait
When I watch these kinda videos, it makes me realise that I should YOLO more.
50 to 250 million years from now? Oh great, I can't wait!
I love learning info about big and long balls
Wegener wasn't the first by far to propose this theory, he just put it into the most comprehensive academic paper of it's time. He also pointed out in his paper that several others have pointed out the similar shapes of coastlines before, even as far back as 1596! Wegener mostly wasn't taken seriously because he couldn't produce concrete proof, or at least a provable mechanism for continental drift, and he was basically just speculating. He was right in the end, but others at the time were also right to point out that correlation doesn't equal causation. The real difference was made by Arthur Holmes who actually proposed the mantle convection we understand today to cause plate tectonics. It still wasn't proven until about the 60s, but he was pretty close to what actually happens. If anything, this shows that just because you have a good idea, it doesn't mean you can convince others without objective evidence. Wegener's speculation was totally off about the amount of drift as well, he speculated it was 250cm/year, when it's closer to 2.5cm/year. But people not just trusting it is a good thing, because then someone else proposed something much more accurate and better thought out, so it's always good to reject theories that aren't good enough yet, and accept them when they are actually proven. There is no sense though in questioning already proven theories given all the scrutiny they had to go through! It's not like you will suddenly be more clever than hundreds of experts before you who took a lot of time trying to disprove it.
Big fan of you. Inspired by you I have also opened my youtube channel. I don't know if it will work or not but you inspire me to do the hardwork and just don't think about the result ❤
Its funny how humans are so preoccupied with their cultures and countries when it is so certain that all of it will come to an end so very soon. i used to believe that i was immune to existential crisis but today, after watching this video, i don't really know what the point to existing is. Our world is so temporary. It scares me.
Jesus.
Oh then I doubt you want to learn about climate change...
Life has existed for 27% of the time since the Big Bang. We are part of a long song that's not negligeable even on huge scales.
Although I do agree that without religion nihilism does make a lot of sense. God shouldn't be killed off lightly.
Changes of our eaarth are very slow. And human cultures on the contrary can change very fast, so they can adapt to the slowly colliding and separating continents, don't be afraid. The problems for our civilizations are not the plates moving, are the much more faster changes we are causing to our environment.
These changes occur over hundreds of thousands if not millions of years I'm pretty sure humans have plenty of time to adapt to the changes of the Earth
I love you video
Please make video on c4 pathway photorespiration
As someone who lives on a continent, I can confirm this would affect me if it affected me
Wegner was not the first to notice the continents looked like they fit together. He was however the first to pursue lines of evidence to show its more than just a curiosity. Despite all the evidence he found he was still doubted by other scientists and condemned by creationists. Despite evidence showing the same fossil species on different continents that could not cross the ocean, and geologic features that lined up, it took a long time for it to be accepted.
this is what minimalist animation should be
Exactly!!!
In my humble opinion, like it was in the beginning and as our ancestors began to migrate into the various areas gave us our changed appearance.
Gondwanaland sounds cool
Bro what?! 50 million years for a solution? Damnn, can’t wait for the human species that will _totally_ live that long
people fighting over artificial borders seems pointless when you look at it from a large enough timescale like this
Humans are meaningless if you go to larger scales. Just mean human choices are unimportant.
Most people are not capable of long term thinking, that's why a lot of times they make impulse decisions and choices.
I hope the new supercontinent happens soon. I want to visit Europe by land bridge.
Great! We can store CO2 in the ground so does that mean we can keep on the pulltion?
Oh boy i can't wait for Pangea 2, 50-250 million years aren't passing fast enough!!!
How to make this type of video , means this graphic video.
Plz tell me.
Which app is use to make this type of videos
This can be made using 2d frame by frame animations which you can use krita or clip paint studio or adobee animate
Or motion graphics and key frame editor with either vector art or hand drawn which you can use after effects for it
For certain cases you may use both
But whatever you use you have to learn animation
I recommend 12 principles of animations by Alan becker on youtube
I SWEAR THERE IS A CZcams SPY IN MY ROOM AT SCHOOL WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE SAME THING and i havent ever searched this
Can it be done before dinner
50 to 250 million years from now may sound like a huge gap of uncertainty, but it sounds like a huge gap of uncertainty.
That is because by then, humans will have evolved to develop superpowers to freeze plate tectonics in place.
Trust me bro, I dream about the future.
Make Pangea great again!
What if right now we’re laying the groundwork in research for these underground pipes and future city planners are looking at this research as archaic but crucial to protecting their society from shifting continents?
México near Japan, China & Korea, woah!!!
God really created this world as a fascinating universe 🤗❤️
with my spirt animal being rodinia i can confirm that you guys got it right
Hello there
As a person who was born in the multiple contents era, I can’t confirm this is true
if humans (and therfore some politicians) lived long enough to experience such fusing of continents, it is intriguing what the dynamic of power will turn out to be
As an American, I can't wait for the new super continent to arrive so that all humanity can migrate to the USA without crossing water.
It's a cool video, but it kinda irks me how at ~48 it shows what looks to be India heading for Asia, but it ends up as south-east Asia, while India itself seems to just sprout out from nowhere.
Minute 3:00… closing of the “Atlantic?” Not the “Pacific?”
I was under the impression that because of the Mid Atlantic Ridge, causing the widening of the Atlantic Ocean, will eventually lead Asia and the Americas to come closer.
We can pretty reliably predict that the following will happen:
-Australia will move up towards Asia
-South America will move towards North America
-Europe will move down towards Africa
-Asia will move east toward North America
This is, obviously, definitely the beginning of a super continent. The real question is about Antarctica. Antarctica is basically moving away at all the plate boundaries right now. What it will crash into will determine when the next super continent happens
You know I never understood Europe and Asia being two different continents
Wassup gang
50 millions years to come up with a solution ? That's too short for us.
50 million years? i hope we achieve type 1 civilization 👌
❤️ 💙
It's like Earth resets it self
So, in a nutshell, we just need to use a load of pipes to save our continents' placement.
People will be so Confused when the find out we were all on big islands
i learned about Wegener today and every scientist called him a crazy little man, so he went up to Greenland to prove it, only he froze to death. At least he tried tho...
What will happen to the Uranium from power plants that gets buried in the underground tunnels ?
Mantle is not made of partially molten rocks... it is rather solid :P
Edit: with exception of thin layer called asthenosfere FIY ;)
Heard of asthenosphere
@@kavyajha4 yep but does this video mention asthenosfere? Asthenosfere is thin layer under lithosfere. From the image they show you can understand all mantle is partially molten which is incorrect :P
@Kavya Jha the asthenosphere is mostly solid too
@@--julian_ Yes but it is LOCALLY molten, and that's enough.
@@Laurelin70 it is not enough. saying partially molten is misleading because it implies that a big portion of it is molten, which is not. especially because most people think that the mantle is actually molten.
oooh that idea of storing CO2 in Basalt might be handy later. imagine shipping millions of tons of rocks containing Carbon Dioxide to Mars to build up its atmosphere? or doing the same high in the Venusian atmosphere to gradually decrease the atmospheric Pressure on Venus.
Pangea is back
hi
👍
Now that I know it's going to take 50 million years, I can safely return to my bed without stress.
Interesting information
🌎 🌍 🌏
So the guy from the movie "the man from earth" confirms it.
continents had drip
I don’t know why but I laughed at „dating local fossils” 🤔
how did the research for my fantasy novel lead me here
Madagascar fits snugly into Mozambique
It's borderline hysterical for us as humans to assume that we would be alive 50 million years later given the kind of damage we're doing to the Earth at present....
Can we name the next supercontinent Ted-edia 🌍
Earths continents HAVE remained steady for millennia. They’ve just moved over much longer time periods.
Lol these theories are interesting. Especially thinking the earth is that old
Future Pangea is inevitable, however water will overtake many countries during this period and supercontinent will form
The Global Pizza was cut and distributed to all according to their appetite.
Moving continent
Why would the Atlantic close up? My guess is that East Coast of Asia and the West Coast of North America come together. Right now, the Americas are being pushed away from the West Coast of Africa and Europe.
As a pangean passport holder I confirm this to be true.
I am thinking what will happen to the ecosystems of the many continents that will collide to become the new supercontinent and would the animals of the various ecosystems become invasive species and destroy the other ecosystems
So what would all the countrys do when most of the borders will be connected to the other nations of the world
Only at the end I heared that this was a AI voice. impressive
So you're telling me, the earth might freeze or burn?😭
Early gang
sup dude
I always wonder that just like no piece in a puzzle can be moved if there is no space, similarly plates should not.
But plates are not pieces of a puzzle: plates don't limit themselves to collide or separate, they go UNDER other other plates and are consumed by the mantle, that's why they keep on diverging in other places.