Frivolous ASB thread

[Otto Kretschmer]

WI: All tigers are the size of a house cat.

[Otto Kretschmer]

What if Hungary was hungry and Turkey was made of turkeys?

[Zyobot]

‘Giant Pizza-Shaped Comet Streaks Past Earth’. 🍕

[Zyobot]

‘Gus Hall Becomes The Soviet Premier’.

[Zyobot]

‘Giorgio Tsoukalos Hosts An ET Dinner Party’. 👽

[Zyobot]

‘Hawaii and New Zealand Switch Places’.

[Zyobot]

‘Africa Rotated Upside-Down’.

[stevep]

Oct 1, 2024 22:34:53 GMT Zyobot said:

‘Africa Rotated Upside-Down’.

  Chaos.  Assuming your talking about the present day even without the drastic environmental impacts for one thing the Med is no longer a largely enclosed sea and the Suez canal is now irrelevant.  [Could be interesting whether the Sinai peninsula goes with it or stays in location so would probably come under Israeli control, which would further isolate Gaza.]  Similarly in the west Gib no longer controls a narrow strait and much of SE Iberia will be exposed to Atlantic storms, as well as tides being a considerable factor.  Trade with S Asia and the Far East will be easier for Europe.

  If say Cape Town is roughly where Tunis is now then there's still a significant bottleneck there.  You could see immigrant coming from 'South' Africa rather than the flow being from north and west Africa. 

  Much of former southern Africa is now in the desert zone so could have serious problems with a changing and much drier climate and could prompt attempts to escape, either north to Europe or south to the equatorial region.  N Africa is now much colder and probably significant wetter as well which could help it in the longer term but will take a fair amount of shock and difficulties in the shorter term.

[575]

Oct 1, 2024 22:34:53 GMT Zyobot said:

‘Africa Rotated Upside-Down’.

Quite chaotic.

If following stevep then the South African coast will be Mediterranea climate but just beyon that it will be bone dry. Madagaskar would become a super Canaries also quite dry but Med like due to the cold Canary Current.

Then there will be a huge empty ocean between Arabia and Africa - size of Europe!

The biggest problem may be the new Atlantic - the Strait between Brazil and African Horn will be quite narrow which may block cold water from the south to go up the Atlantic. That strait will only be some 1100 km/ 687,5 mi wide. That is about the width of the Med!

Don't know but guess it could make for a cold, dry Brazilian coast or a warm beach but cold dip in the blue - Calif?

[575]

Aaaaand - the VIDEO:



Unfortunately it doesn't answer any of the questions asked..

[stevep]

Oct 18, 2024 18:28:10 GMT 575 said:

Aaaaand - the VIDEO:



Unfortunately it doesn't answer any of the questions asked..

  Very true but thinking about it while the link between the north and south Atlantic is now greatly reduced there's a lot more water going to be traveling bvetween the N Atlantic and the Indian Ocean and wouldn't like to say what impact that would have on world climate.

  I think much of North Africa would have serious problems as hadn't realised how far south it was.  Going to be a massive climatic shock to the inhabitants and if they don't get a lot of coastal rains it could be desperate for a fair number of the population.  Not sure what would happen with the Nile but if that was greatly affected then Egypt and quite possibly Sudan would be facing mass death scenarios.  Southern Africa is now distinctly warmer and in what is normally desert latitudes so a lot would depend on circumstances but again it could be very nasty.

  I don't thinking mineral extraction would be massively affected as the minerals are still there - albeit markets could be closer or further away - but agriculture and a number of other operations could be devastated.  Also all cable links with the rest of the world be torn away.

  One point briefly touched on would be that many migration patterns would be affected and often broken.  The birds that migrate to central Africa from Europe aren't going to make it here as apart from finding a landing S Africa is a lot further away that say Tunisia was and those routes that went through Iberia or the Levant are screwed totally.