What is the significance of 250 million years?

@dickkell (403)
United States
April 21, 2007 9:14am CST
I've started doing some basic research and come across something that seems to me pretty startling. 250 million years. 250 million years ago, Pangea was formed (supercontinent formation seems to occur in about 250 million year cycles.) 250 million years ago, the Great Dying occurred, wiping out nearly ALL life on earth. 250 million years is the length of an orbit by our Sun around the galactic center. Maybe I'm a conspiracy nut, but I've been looking into this for like 5 minutes and it seems a rather large and imposing coincidence - what is the meaning of it all?
2 responses
ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63664)
• United States
21 Apr 07
You wrote: "250 million years. 250 million years ago, Pangea was formed (supercontinent formation seems to occur in about 250 million year cycles.) 250 million years ago, the Great Dying occurred, wiping out nearly ALL life on earth." Doesn't that mean that we should be getting ready to form a new Pangea, but last I looked, we are still a ways from the Americans running into Asia. And I don't see anything hitting us on a regularly scheduled basis (not that something couldn't hit us tomorrow) its the schedule I'm talking about. So, even if we do go around galatic center in 250 million years, (and are they talking American millions or British millions?) I'm not going to worry about it.
dickkell
@dickkell (403)
• United States
25 Apr 07
I guess more specifically the cycle of movement seems to be 500 million years for continents. The sites I was looking at predicted another "pangea" 250 million years in the future.
ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63664)
• United States
25 Apr 07
Ahhh, thanks for clearing up that mystery. Okay, I guess I don't have to worry about California slamming into Japan in the next few years. I wonder what the world will look like in 250 million more years.
dickkell
@dickkell (403)
• United States
27 Apr 07
They have projection maps on several web sites. Seach yahoo for "Pangea" or "250 million years" if you want to see one of them.
Munhozmib
@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
1 May 07
250 Millions? In 250 Millions of years MANY things can happen! Our society was founded in less than 1 million year, I think. Imagine in 250 Millions? If we manage to survive that much, what kind of Technology will we have? I think there is no clue of what will be life like in this ammount of time. It's not a "near future". We don't even know if there will be Sun in 250 Million Years, haha! I wish I could watch it.