Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> OK, now that really *is* counter-intuitive. On a map, it looks like the 
> coast of Africa and America would "fit together" if you moved a few 
> tectonic plates around. But this diagram shows that America is many 
> times smaller than Africa, so this would be quite impossible.

> This is puzzling, since I thought that Africa *was* connected to America 
> in the fairly recent geological past...

  Uh, which "America" are you talking about? The continent named "America"
or the country named "United States of America" (often shortended as just
"America")?

  That image has the USA compared to Africa, not the whole American
continent.

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                                                          - Warp

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