When we look at the globe from a certain angle, all we see is the blue sea and no land in sight. Someone on Twitter noticed this. Or perhaps they were having a particularly meaningless day which needed some enlivening. So they threw this out for anyone who may be interested – maybe they should put a new continent there – in that vast blue expanse.
Let’s put a new continent here suggests this tweet.
A lot of people liked the idea. Or they were all having a reasonably meaningless day as well.
They felt that the expanse of the Pacific is a waste; that cartographers put Europe in the centre of global maps chiefly to conceal this fact.
It’s been a long time since the continental drift carved out all the different continents from the one original supercontinent Pangea.
A melodic dubstep island, for instance.
From a video game
Dinotopia is a land populated by, surprise, surprise, Dinosaurs – from a series of fantasy books
No one's really using Antarctica anyway, so why not.
Some gave it serious consideration - an idea that was meant to be a throwaway joke.
Again for a number of seriously considered reasons.
Considering the amount of plastic waste humans generate, such a continent could be constructed entirely out of waste, suggests this tweet.
This is already a reality. There is supposed to be a giant floating plastic island in the oceans already.
They would probably terraform (transform a place so as to resemble earth so that it can support human life), suggests this tweet.
American brands are simply everywhere, so why not some new continent as well.
A new continent in the middle of nowhere – sounds a little like this?
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