I’m fascinated by what the earth looked like at the time many of fossils found in this area were living creatures.
Here’s a reconstructed view (showing Michigan and the nearest “field area” to Ann Arbor being underwater):
If viewed from space, it would be completely unrecognizable as earth.
Yet the way environmentalists who want to “restore” America to how it looked in 1492 carry on, you’d think the planet has always been — and always will be — exactly as it is now.
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11 responses to “What the planet looked like before 1492”
Before 1492? More like 14920000 B.C.
And I think I forgot a zero.
In Eric’s defense, he never stipulated how many years before 1492 CE.
Save Pangea! LOL
I live in Colorado, and when my parents were building their home around 30 years ago (before I was born) they found fossils there too, a mile above sea level. Don’t think I want to restore the place to that time, somehow
Sea-bottom fossils, sorry. Forgot that.
The fossils found around here are Devonian (around 350 million years old). Definitely before Columbus!
Hey ! I can see my house !
@Edward – LOL.
BUT – I’m going to say something here. The ecofreaks are conservatives. They don’t want any change. In fact, they may be reactionaries. They want to put everything back to the way it was in what they consider the golden age, no matter who (or what) suffers.
Yes, the Earth has been changing for as long as there’s been an Earth but the changes now are caused by Man, otherwise the Earth would not change.
It’s all sciencey and stuff, you wouldn’t understand.
No I wouldn’t understand. Science is becoming the key to unlocking our latent human desire for medieval ignorance.
What Eric said…sigh.