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What did Earth look like X million years ago?

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Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?

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We've still got AT&T and an IBM in my hometown, there's probably even a few PHP web-shops there too!

We still have 3M who up until recently had a business formal dress code for all employees. I know several friends who turned down jobs because they were not cool with having to wear a suit the entire day they were coding.

Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?

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Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes up transported to a different planet except it’s later revealed that it’s actually Earth in a distant time?

[Spoiler Alert:] Original 1968 “Planet of the Apes”? It's a great visual reveal in the last moments of the film; no dialog needed.

Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?

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One of the neat bits from this is going to 340 Mya and look at where the Appalachian mountain range runs. You can hike part of the Appalachian trail in Spain https://www.geologiadesegovia.info/the-international-appalac... and Ireland https://iatulsterireland.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Appalachian_Trai...

Earth’s land and water hemispheres [1] were particularly stark in contrast back in the time of the dinosaurs. Are there geological theories as to how the asymmetry formed? Could major impact events from astronomical objects have played a role?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres

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