Continents

... social structure, with our governments, laws, and so-called morals, all of the cities and machines we've built, our ability to quickly cross continents, oceans, fly through the skies and even into outer space, certainly gives us reason to be pleased with ourselves, doesn't it? We might even ...

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Hmmm, I must have misunderstood the definition of continental drift. I took it to address of the movement of continents as a result of plate tectonics... ie pangaea breaking into subcontinents, India slamming into Asia, etc. After reading the wiki you linked, I see that the term ...

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... technology was astonishing and had facilitated the first ever large-scale biological project. The Human Genome and related projects spanned many continents in an amazing co-operative effort to generate the DNA sequences of many genomes. The focus is now shifting to resequencing in an immense ...

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... nineteen-forties a couple of geophysicists (if that’s what they called them in those days) cleared their throats and brazenly suggested that whole continents might just raft around the globe on magma. When the laughter died down and a few decades had passed by, the idea didn’t seem quite so silly. ...

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... nineteen-forties a couple of geophysicists (if that’s what they called them in those days) cleared their throats and brazenly suggested that whole continents might just raft around the globe on magma. When the laughter died down and a few decades had passed by, the idea didn’t seem quite so silly. ...

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