There’s one continent, it’s called the crust of the Earth. There’s some water on top of it in some places.
Continental crusts are an observable and measurable thing
They contain higher concentrations of aluminum whereas you find higher concentrations of magnesium outside of those crusts.
They are geological features and should be categorized accordingly. Eurasia makes way more sense than Europe being its own special thing… Except Europe, historically, likes to pretend the rest of the world doesn’t exist in their concepts and as such always considers itself special
Seems like stamp collecting to me
Oceanic crusts are also much denser than continental crusts, and obviously not as thick. When they collide the oceanic crusts subduct back into the mantle due to being denser.
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The oceans are just a big lake.
The big salty lake I call it.
In the great words of Atlas Pro after going into excruciating detail on why no answer is more correct He said:
So gow many continents are there?
“Obviously six”
No further clarification was given.
Pluto was always a continent!!!
I always thought it had something to do with continental drift.
There’s anywhere between 2 and 7:
- Afroeurasia (inc australia , antartica counts as an ocean)
- Americas
or
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- North America
- South America
- Oceania
- Antartic
So you’re saying pi continents is possible?
I’m sold.
There’s no way Australia counts as the same continent as Afroeurasia, and Antarctica is a landmass (unlike the Arctic ice). 4 continents minimum.
Why is antarctica considered an ocean? It’s a land mass. Granted, the vast majority of it is covered in ice, but it is still above sea level.
One of my first arguments on here was over what constitutes a continent. I feel vindicated.
There’s a great map men episode on this
That’s why there’s always the argument that the country should not be called “America”. English speaking countries split North and South America as separate continents, so America the country does not get confused with America the continent. In Spanish (might be regional), it’s all one continent, so someone saying that they are from “America” doesnt narrow it down to a country.
I think it’s fine to just have different conventions in different languages. If you want country names to be 100% unambiguous in all languages, you basically have to change the name of half of the countries out there. E.g., “Deutschland” could refer to all germanic-speaking countries, but everyone recognizes that it just means Germany.
I’ve encountered the argument for Estadounidense from Mexicans, but it falls apart when you counter that the name of their country is Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
If you’re really feeling like putting the screws to them, point out that while all of the USA is America, Mexico Valley is a very small part of the territory of their country, and is itself named after the Mexica people that inhabit it. So rather than translate Estados Unidos Mexicanos as the United Mexican States, it would more accurately be the United States of the Mexica Empire.
Then you can ask them if they’re Mexica, or from one of the conquered territories.
It’s fine enough even all in one language. There’s the US state of Georgia and the county of Georgia. And outside the occasional funny misunderstanding, it’s usually clear from context.
There’s between 3 and 500. Since it’s statistically unlikely that the correct number would be at either extreme, the most likely correct number of continents would be somewhere around 250, with a margin of error of approximately 245.
Look at the big brain on Brett!
People can’t even agree on whether the earth is flat or not.
Curios to know if you got it from here: https://lemmy.world/post/44478819/22754825
Could well be a coincidence, but I think it would be fun if I helped in the genesis of this thread :)
Nope. I just saw the Olympic rings, one ring for every continent that participates. They are America, Europe, Oceana, Asia, and Africa.
I don’t believe in continents. I’m incontinent.
I theorize that the Vatican can only control 172 countries at any one time, and have a seat selected for the NWO. As for the other 21 (as found in the UN), they have to be targeted for destruction by the Vatican.
I was taught in the second grade that there are seven continents and I still have them memorized and I can still see our adorable teacher teaching & chanting them with us rhythmically:
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
And there are five oceans:
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic.
She was such a good teacher I’ve had it locked into my head since I was 7 years old that Russia and Japan and China and India are all part of Asia. I make mental note of that because apparently those geographical facts aren’t universally understood. In the sixth grade one of the most intelligent boys in our class told me I was wrong that Russia is in Asia 🤷🏼♀️
Well, it’s in Asia and Europe. Big country. If Siberia alone was a country, it would still be the biggest country in the world.
Downvote this comment if you jerk off to My Little Pony cartoons 5 times a day.
A country cannot be in/on two different continents.
False. French Guyana in South America is considered a part of France. Not a territory or whatever, it’s in the EU as a part of the country. So yes, Brazil borders the EU, for example, and any number of other hilarious facts.
A country cannot be in/on two different continents.
Says who?
Could your home ever possibly be in two different zip codes?
When you’re standing on the ground, is it possible for you to physically be anywhere else at the same time?
Probably not, but there are homes in two different countries.
Seriously? I thought you would at least be able to come up with a funny explanation to support your nonsensical statement.
So if France conquered all of Africa? Africa wouldn’t be a continent anymore? Would we just continuously move the continental border?
If the US conquered Australia, Australia would become part of North America?
How about you slow down and think about this one for a few minutes.
Yeah, I’ve stood in two different countries at the same time before. Haven’t you?
Moscow is in Europe, as is Petersburg, as are something like 80% of the population. So if you want to be like that and say a country has to be entirely in one continent then Russia is in Europe.
Heck Australia is it’s own continent and also claims part of Antarctica as territory.
Russia is a transcontiental country. The Ural Mountains are considered the boundry between Europe and Asia thus, Russia is about 75 % in Asia and 25 % in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
80% of all Russians live in Europe.
50% of Canadians live below the 49th parallel is very similar in most reapects
Clarifying ocean and sea is rather arbitrary. I mean what makes the Indian Ocean different from the pacific ocean, or the north sea, or white sea, different than the atlantic?
An ocean is a different thing than a sea.
You want to talk about seas? There are a bazillion seas like the Caspian sea, the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, etc
But I’m not talking about seas. I’m talking about the five oceans. It’s a simple geographical fact that there are five oceans.
Inland seas sure. But I mentioned a couple of seas that are really part of the ocean. The North Sea, and White sea for instance.
But also what makes the Indian Ocean different from the pacific ocean? It’s arbitrary.
two: america and eurasrika
What about Antarctica?
If antarctica is a continent, then so is outer space.
What do you define as a continent?
A continent is something that contains people, i guess.
So iceland is a continent?
lol yeah i didn’t really think much about my comment though, maybe i should have made that clear earlier :D
Based on that
Continents: Walmarts and coffins
