idle thoughts about the post below

So maybe we should organize some Meetups and create a movement to stop continental drift. Cause continental drift is a horrible, nasty thing that wreaks havoc on our quality of life. It's a form of corruption that goes to the core of the planet. There's gotta be stuff we can do to help eradicate it. I'm hoping that maybe if we could get more organized, we could raise awareness and enact a law or implement some policy that will combat this scourge. Maybe with the start of a paypal fund, publicity and awareness could start the ball rolling. Do you think it would work?

UPDATE: Responses are trickling in at a glacial pace (how appropriate). One post points this nascent campaign in a fruitful direction.

Instead of (or in addition to) this bumper sticker

Stop Continental Drift Now!

Jim Lyon suggests this one, which will take us back to the days when Continents congressed together in peace and harmony...

Reunite Gondwanaland!

and if you're wondering what is Gondwanaland...

Comments

[Donald W. Larson]

Of course to undertake these and other considerations, our world would have to be at peace with itself. By assuming we could forget the petty ideas of wealth and power, had the ability to actually influence Mother Nature to the degree required, this could be an interesting exercise in goal setting and the implementation of how to achieve world-wide acceptable goals.

People from some continents might wish to drift closer to others and yet some may wish to drift further apart. Some continents would enjoy the barrier of their water boundaries and others would want more space set aside for water boundaries.

Then of course, the change of weather patters that could arise from land masses reorienting themselves into fixed spots. If a global warming trend was predicted, some political process would be needed to work out equitable changes in a continent's latitude and longitude.

Don

[Jim Lyon]

Stopping continental drift is just the first step -- then we need to reverse the process and get back to where nature intended us to be.

Reunite Gondwanaland! (my favorite bumper sticker)

[Susan Kitchens]

Jim... beautiful. Excellent contribution to this campaign to get back to the halcyon days of our planet's youth. Thank you.

[Tino Hammid]

Hello folks. I'm an old acquaintance of Susan's from early Brycing days, a period which came directly after the Tertiary. But let's not try to remember too much because it makes my head hurt. Anyway, from time to time I've looked in on this fine blog and finally have taken the trouble to sign up. Since the ideas in this thread were proposed as bumper sticker slogans I figured I'd take some license and redirect the discussion to include the following. Moving away from the geological and to the geewhizicle, my favorite bumper stickers of all time are:

MY KARMA RAN OVER YOUR DOGMA

and

HECK IS THE PLACE YOU GO IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN GOSH

Tino Hammid

[Susan Kitchens]

Tino!

Thanks for stopping by! And for someone whose work is photographing rocks to get off the subject of geology, well, I guess that's very diversionary of you! :D Gosh, I'm as amused as heck at your second one. Does that make me a bad person?

S