On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
>> Really? Continents have no basis in geology? Plate tectonics either?
>>
> To cite our friend Stephen (a well known authority) """Continents are
> just demarcation of landmasses nothing more""" :-P
Well, if we were discussing barbecue, I might be persuaded, but I'll
have to disagree here.
> If continents had really a basis in geology then South America would be
> part of the African continent. This is not so.
They were one continent millions of years ago, but have not been for
some time. And though Africa is connected to the Eurasian continent in a
roughly equivalent manner as NA is to SA, I doubt you would consider them to be
a single continent, either.
> Nothing will change their POV, I know that well enough.
> But with me it's kind of a sport. Besides which I got to cite a lot of
> web sites and use some latin phrases. Wow, I feel like I might be
> turning into a clone of our friend Minimus!
Playing with trolls rarely elevates the trolls; the opposite is usually
the case.
-- Ed Leafe
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