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Especially the short explanation of the age is quite educating",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"17291561","nedsma","Thanks, I learned so much from this.",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"17288819","adammenges","This is awesome, nice job!",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"17288660","stareatgoats","Wow, that is a fantastic knowledge resource! Something I have long hoped to find. 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The wikipedia page for the Zanclean Deluge[1]…",{"value":122,"source":84,"evidence":123},"Mobile controls are hard to use; pinch zoom flies off",[124],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"17288084","linker3000","Very hard to steer on a cell phone (Android, Brave browser) - pinch zoom kept flying me into the Cosmos. Like the idea though - will try later from desktop.",{"value":129,"source":84,"evidence":130},"Colors and globe imagery could be mistaken for biomes or clouds",[131],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"17288512","mncharity","Nifty work. > Even though precise results are returned by the plate tectonic models, the locations are still approximate [...]. In my tests I found that model results can vary…",[136,143,158],{"value":137,"source":84,"evidence":138},"Add a non-globe flat map view",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"17288262","AdamSC1","Love the map! Anyway to view a non-globe version?",{"value":144,"source":84,"evidence":145},"Show future Earth or extrapolate movement",[146,150,154],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"17289769","anonymfus","Do you plan to extend it to show the future?",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"17291849","amelius","Can we extrapolate this into the future? Update: found this video: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=uLahVJNnoZ4",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"17287396","elliottcarlson","I would love to see what a potential future Earth would look like, and where I currently stand will be https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=uLahVJNnoZ4 is pretty cool",{"value":159,"source":84,"evidence":160},"Automatic animation of changes over time",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"17288814","vadym909","Great. Suggestion- 1. Can you add the number of years ago (eg. 100,000, 1M, 20M, 200M) next to the periods in the dropdown for those not familiar with it. 2. 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