>> 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.

Last I checked, "the USA" makes up about 90% of the North American 
continent anyway... (But then, what do *I* know about geography? 
Apparently very little!)

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