Timeline for The Lost Continents of Atlantis and Mu reappear: Disruption to Transport
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| Aug 6 at 6:16 | comment | added | Vesper | @Mon I meant whether the landmass would be close enough to those cables to affect them, not that whether they would break if affected, the latter is expected. I'm not familiar with their rough layout in the Atlantic, so I can't say if they are laid so that the continent rise circle intersects them, but if it does, they will break. | |
| Jul 21 at 5:23 | comment | added | Mon | @Vesper If you've ever been on a cable laying ship (I had the privilege) or seen a documentary on the industry you'd see they're not exactly 'stretchy' by which I means there ability to flex under strain is minimal. For example the Tonga underwater volcanic eruption a few years ago cause an underwater mud slide that buried (and snapped) cables in the vicinity. So in this scenario? There's literally no way they could adjust to the vertical strain imposed by a continent rising under them. | |
| Jul 20 at 5:06 | comment | added | Vesper | I wonder if any Internet Atlantic cables would be affected by such a landmass eruption. If yes, it'll be seriously felt by ISPs that arrange intercontinental traffic, down to causing warfare out of mere break-up of direct connection between USA and Europe. | |
| Jul 20 at 4:23 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | @Mon I agree entirely. However, I am only concerned with the time it takes for it to appear on the news, and what vessels might be grounded. | |
| Jul 19 at 23:58 | comment | added | Mon | @Monty Wild. While the arrival and rise of the two new continents might 'magical' their impact on climate, ocean currents, civilization and geopolitics AFTER they are in place will not be. | |
| Jul 19 at 23:24 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | @DavidR there is magic involved in getting the continents in place, it's not a geological event. The question is science based because I'm asking about what follows. | |
| Jul 19 at 21:21 | comment | added | David R | Secondly, the faults on which you are raising the mountains will generate enough friction to melt rock. That is how you get to do the raising without huge earthquakes. | |
| Jul 19 at 21:15 | comment | added | David R | @MontyWild while they may eventually be icy cold, at first the rock will be the temperature it was while deep in the earth. Mountains as high as the Himalayas will have raised up from as much as 7 km deep. Those rocks will be as hot as 150 - 200 degrees C. (30C /km) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient It will take a while to cool off the rocks. (Hot springs in the Olympic Mountains are believed to be due to how fast those mountains were raised.) | |
| Jul 19 at 15:11 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | @DavidR I should have said, Atl;antis and Mu will be icy cold, not hot. | |
| Jul 19 at 14:44 | comment | added | David R | I believe that the most disruption to traffic will come from the major changes to weather that such a new continent will cause. First off, rock quickly lifted up that high will be quite hot and will give off a lot of steam causing a high-pressure area. Second, the weather patterns will change concentrating storms in new areas. New York will get hit by hurricanes. | |
| Jul 19 at 14:12 | comment | added | Jay McEh | Strong disagreement on the level of disruption that Atlantis would cause. Draw the radius on a map and compare to shipping charts. It's a minor annoyance at most (aside from the political and geological ramifications which you are completely right about, but we're apparently supposed to disregard). | |
| Jul 19 at 14:04 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | @GoingDurden That's rather a longer timescale than I was interested in. My immediate interest is in transport losses and timeline to public notice of the change. | |
| Jul 19 at 13:18 | comment | added | Going Durden | Another thing that would disrupt transport, would be that ships and planes would be ordered away from Atlantis and Mu for legal reasons, until the political situation is solved. Effectively, despite not being countries yet, Atlantis and Mu would be treated as if they had sovereign airspace and territorial waters, and would be off-limits to civilian craft, lest they unbalance the political situation and cause WW3 (like say, a Brazilian container ship accidentally beaching itself on Mu and thus, unintentionally claiming the new land for Brazil). | |
| Jul 19 at 12:43 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | The only transoceanic cables that could potentially be disrupted are Nuvem and Seabras-1 in the north atlantic. See submarinecablemap.com | |
| Jul 19 at 12:26 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | @Trish, sentence 1: In a single event, the lost continents of Atlantis and Mu arise from the deeps over the course of about half an hour, accompanied by a low-magnitude earthquake felt worldwide. | |
| Jul 19 at 12:19 | comment | added | Trish | @MontyWild that depends on how sudden they appear?! | |
| Jul 19 at 11:46 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | Can you account for the numbers of losses of aircraft and ships in each event, as well as the timeline of public awareness of the incidents? | |
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| Jul 19 at 4:58 | comment | added | elemtilas | Note that Atlantis appears in the Atlantic POI, not the Arctic POI. There would probably rather a few disruptions at Atlantis! | |
| Jul 19 at 3:24 | history | answered | Mon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |