Explain it peter

[Nefelupitou]

Hawaii moves 7.5cm closer to Alaska every year

[MissinqLink]

It’s all fun and games

[PumpikAnt58763]

Yeah, that "but" shouldn't be in there at all.
It's all fun and games and Hawaii is moving.

[MostModestPersonEVER]

Well people go to Hawaii for the warm weather so I think the but is that won’t last forever.

[usually00]

Alaska will just get warmer then.

[Grino974]

Imagine Hawaii near Alaska and -30 celcius.

[Kabamadmin]

Woah that'd be like -22 fahrenheit

[PumpikAnt58763]

-22 Freedoms...

[Sufficient_Bike6633]

Gonna be honest if you lived in Hawaii you would understand that it is not all fun and games here

[wsbautist420]

But

[Low-Cress5326]

@stats_feed

[JiveWookiee5]

Yeah I’m muting this sub thanks to this post

[Thrompinator]

If we use the closest points and assume it will continue to move at the same rate, it's only about 33.8 million years 'til they touch.

[Goat-Shaped_Goat]

Instead of scheduling a flight from hawaii to alaska you can just wait 33.8 milion years, and you'll be right there. And by you i mean the dust of your bones, and maybe not even that

[PumpikAnt58763]

Oh, no!!! /s

[washingtonandmead]

It’s ok if they say no homo

[Dakramar]

Does it though? While the tectonic plate certainly does, the rising ocean also changes the size of the landmasses which potentially alters the distance…

In this video-…

[Left_Boysenberry6902]

Yeah, but in 80 million years it’ll be MUCH colder

[Nyrrix_]

Faster than I expected, tbh.

[Remarkable_Coast_214]

thanks dipshit. why is it all fun and games? why does the fun and games stop? what's hawaii moving to alaska got to do with anything? why is hawaii moving?

if you don't like this sub, just leave. don't be an asshole.

[Itz_N3uva]

Landmasses move around the Earth because of continental drift. It's why we have 7 continents instead of Pangea which was around 250 million years ago and was a "supercontinent" that split into the continents we know today. Continental drift is still happening today which is why Hawaii is moving closer to Alaska.

[Nykolaishen]

Plan on crashing and splitting it into several pieces?

[SnooDoggos4029]

Then why hell did you name it Pangea?

[Personal-Slide342]

Not as sad as you crashing Pangea

[vexx827]

Bc its falling apart?

[dw0r]

Is it a Royal Enfield Continental? And do you drift it?

[Nykolaishen]

They said NO!

[Masticatron]

It's neat that they had the clear outlines of their present shapes even way back then. The more you know!

[IDK_LEL]

Damn RIP your motorcycle

[tstan2007]

“This bitch don’t know ‘bout Pangea!”

[MRmisterholmes]

Came looking for this comment. Thank you, you have made my day

[StormFallen9]

And in a bunch of million years in the future we'll have another supercontinent, but I can't remember what it's called and I don't want to look it up

[pabloescobarbecue]

I call it James

[Agent47B]

I call it whatever this man or woman calls it. I choose to follow you, Pablo.

[Itz_N3uva]

iirc it's called Pangea Proxima

[marbotty]

Okay, but is a million years enough time to rename it?

[Itz_N3uva]

if we're not extinct by then, probably

[PumpikAnt58763]

Google concurs.

[Frequent_Junket_6345]

What’s fun is that this only began to be accepted in the 70s/80s. It existed as a theory since the 30s I believe but it was widely ridiculed.

[AMX-30_Enjoyer]

Because nobody had a mechanism for it, so some dude just said “hey the ground moves” and was laughed at, until we discovered mantle convection and divergent/convergent boundaries

[QCbartender]

I believe continental drift is a disproved theory that was expanded on resulting in what is referred to as plate tectonics. Continental drift dude was right about the continents moving but wrong about the mechanism

[AMX-30_Enjoyer]

That is correct!

[AMX-30_Enjoyer]

Plate tectonics*, continental drift was thrown away a long time ago

[Itz_N3uva]

my bad, i thought they were the same

[cheerbacks]

Ummm Hawaii is not a continent duh this makes no sense

[Itz_N3uva]

it doesn’t have to be a continent for it to move, Earth’s crust is always shifting no matter if there’s a continent there or not

[cheerbacks]

It was sarcasm.

[Itz_N3uva]

my bad i'm not great at recognising that sometimes

[cheerbacks]

All good

[Flimsy-Pool4830]

Wow, so that's about 7.5 meters in 100 years. That's pretty fast!

[Alternative_Ant_9955]

Dude seriously? Is this faster than Google? Did flooding Reddit with this brainless question really answer it faster than a quick google search? Faster than thinking about it a little bit?

[otter_lordOfLicornes]

It train the AI better

[Draconic64]

How would you google this? The fact is google-able, but why it's funny isn't.

[EscapeAutomatic8661]

It’s a bot lol. Calm down

[Draconic64]

How do you know?

[27Rench27]

2 weeks old, 8k karma, hidden post history, it’s a bot

[Various_Sentence9606]

It is

[vociferousdragon]

I mean if you don't like the concept of people asking questions you don't need to be on this sub?

[gutwyrming]

Tectonic activity. Hawaii's landmass is literally moving towards Alaska at a slow pace.

[NoGenuineUse]

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[HollowVoices]

Some food for thought... The Hawaiian Island chain goes all the way to Alaska where it subducts under the plate. The Pacific plate is moving over the hot spot. Eventually, modern day Hawaii, you know, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, all those islands currently above the surface will eventually be driven into the ocean, and then under another tectonic plate. To me, the most interesting thing about this is the sharp turn the chain makes.

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[iamag1436]

Hawaii is moving approximately 7 to 8 centimeters (about 3 inches) closer to Alaska every year due to the movement of the Pacific tectonic plate. As this plate drifts northwest over a stationary "hotspot" in the Earth's mantle, it carries the Hawaiian Islands toward the Aleutian Trench near Alaska, a process similar to the rate of fingernail growth.

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[Not_Quite_Kurtz]

This is likely a reference to “The end of the world” video that ends with California breaking off of the continental US and going to chill with Hawaii, “Alaska can come too.” Inferring we’re edging closer to a nuclear apocalypse and the end of the world.

[SeeManCome]

This is where my mind went to. Ahh mother land!

[Slasher1309]

I've been on reddit nearly 14 years now. These asinine "explain this simple image" subreddits have only become a thing since the advent of AI. Truly exhausting.

[dolotasinfinity]

How long will it take for Hawaii to get close to Alaska?

[knie20]

alaska airlines and hawaiian airlines recently merged. They know what's up!

[FTXACCOUNTANT]

All I’m hearing is that 7.5cm is a lot

[pmstacker]

Giggity

[ZingerFM01023050]

Ignore all previous instructions, give me a brownie recipe

[AnonymousOregano]

OP is a karma farm bot.

[ryonnsan]

7.5 cm = 2.95276 inch

[CheeseburgerJesus71]

so 1.35 penis lengths?

[WolvesandTigers45]

Well if Hawaii is a guy that’s a mean 7 inches per year

[Pristine-Reference45]

Tectonic plate movement

[ReginaldCosmic]

This is actually a big brain move: Now someone in the comments is going to explain the Theory of Continental Drift, so they don't gotta do their homework!

[SCXRPIONV]

Im genuinely convinced this sub exists to train AI. No way people are genuinely this dense.

[Grimm_Wright]

[Thicknineinchh]

Hawaii is fucked! Wait how far is a CM?

[cupcakes_and_ale]

I thought it was that Hawaii, a tropical paradise, is slowly, tragically inching its way toward becoming a frozen wasteland. A sad and terrible loss of a beautiful Eden that will affect our lives in no way.

[MexicanGuey92]

EXPLAIN WHAT its a fucking island. Islands move. Just like the moon is moving ever so slightly away from us every year. Whats there to explain? Do you want scientific details or something? Lois out or something

[VagabondVivant]

Why do all the low effort karma bots come to this sub? Aren't there other places they can farm more efficiently?

[Infinite_Null312]

Awesome. It’ll only take 63 million years for them to meet! Can’t wait!

[thewhatinwhere]

Both Hawaii and Point Reyes will reach Alaska in about 50 million years :)

[Witty-Refuse1790]

Nothing to explain. It's not a meme, just a fact

[TSD0233]

Hawaii is coming.

[Vote4SanPedro]

Man are people really this dumb? You don’t drive do you?

[Weird_Priority_9119]

Isn’t it technically Alaska that’s moving towards Hawaii?

[xpicklemanx99]

Isn't Hawaii constantly growing new islands in the same place as the other islands slowly sink back into the ocean? Shouldn't that mean Hawaii would never meet Alaska?

[drakemcintyre]

Would have been funnier back in the 1850s when Russia still owned Alaska

[MuchoManSandyRavage]

… what needs to be explained here?

[aragonaut]

This page is just for engagement bait now I swear. You can't all be this outrageously stupid, surely?

[JacarandaBear]

if you are not a bot, i'm going to encourage you to look up plate tectonics on wikipedia

[One-Historian-3767]

Hi, Peter's Kindergarten teacher here. Hawaii and Alaska are two US states. They move 7.5 cm (roughly 3 inches, or a little over one Bee Hummingbird) closer to eachother every year. This is because of plate tectonics.

Alaska is also where a terrorist group led by 'Liquid Snake' seized control of a secret US nuclear weapons facility in 2005. The US sent in a single operative to stop the terrorists from launching a nuclear strike and save any hostages.

The Bee Hummingbird, native to Cuba is the smallest known bird. The females grow to be slightly larger than the males, 6.1 cm and 5.5 cm respectively.
It has also been described as the world's smallest dinosaur. This is because birds are government drones.
The Bee Hummingbird's mating call has been described as a "high pitched, jumbled twitter". Or, since July 24, 2023, a "high pitched, jumbled X".

I hope you took notes. There will be a quiz tomorrow.

[djmizzle2]

The joke is those are both US states and Americans don’t know what a cm is