How Many Continents Are There?

[Strato]

Well, I was always told 7, as stated above, but then 8 if you consider India as a sub-continent, so would that in fact be 7.5?

Complications really, arbitary lines drawn up by people who need to categorise things. At the end of the day, we all live on one big world.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

And why only count modern continents? Where is the love for Pangaea? Where is the love for Pangaea?

 

[aronnax]

In our Civilization CD files...

 

[bhsup]

what do you have against south-America?

i learned five here, I guess poeple need to see difference between a continent, a large island and a part of the world.

I have nothing against South America. My favorite bird spends half its life there.

 

[LucyDuke]

And Pluto ain't a planet! Hah!

And why only count modern continents? Where is the love for Pangaea? Where is the love for Pangaea?

She's long since fragmented, Eran. Let it go. She lives on.

Spoiler :

If we counted historical continents... we couldn't count 'em all.

PS, guys. Pangaea is only the most recent supercontinent. There have been several others before her.


Read about it.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

She's long since fragmented, Eran. Let it go. She lives on.

Nooooooooo!!!!

/sobs

 

[Arwon]

Only 600 million years?

 

[LucyDuke]

At least.

 

[Arwon]

I thought all the land was like a couple of billion years old. Ho-hum.

 

[LucyDuke]

Definitely not all the land. A quick wiki browsin' says none is older than 2-3.5 billion years. Obviously not all of it is that old.

I am not a geologist. (Duh. )

 

[Ur_Vile_Wedge]

Actually, Pluto is not really a planet at all. Even if you aren't looking at mass (and Pluto is by far the smallest, it's even much smaller than our moon), you still wouldn't be able to count it based on orbit. All of the eight "real" planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, all orbit the Sun in a roughly circular orbit on the same plane. If you were to look from "above" it would seem like eight little marbles running around in a circle.

Pluto, OTOH, orbits in a much more elliptical pattern. It rises significantly "higher" and dips much "lower" than the true planets on its plane of rotation. It's simply a reasonably large and somewhat close kupier belt object.

 

[Swedishguy]

The Phillipines are a continent?

 

[Love]

Ofcourse, if India has one why not philippine?

 

[LucyDuke]

Actually, Pluto is not really a planet at all.

I agree.

The Phillipines are a continent?

No, nor is the Pacific.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

All of the eight "real" planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, all orbit the Sun in a roughly circular orbit on the same plane. If you were to look from "above" it would seem like eight little marbles running around in a circle.

Pluto, OTOH, orbits in a much more elliptical pattern. It rises significantly "higher" and dips much "lower" than the true planets on its plane of rotation. It's simply a reasonably large and somewhat close kupier belt object.

According to Kepler's First Law, all the planets have elliptical orbits.

On Topic:
North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica.

@Europeans: Sorry, I've always considered you a part of Asia.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

It depends.

 

[Rossiya]

According to Kepler's First Law, all the planets have elliptical orbits.

On Topic:
North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica.

@Europeans: Sorry, I've always considered you a part of Asia.

That last statement is contradictory. You can't call them "Europeans" if you don't believe in Europe.

And also, I can guess that you're Unitedstatesian by how you have split America into north and south. If Europe is in Asia, there is a snowball's chance in hell of being a "North America", considering the fact that it is just a part of America. I suppose it's just USA narcissism.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

That last statement is contradictory. You can't call them "Europeans" if you don't believe in Europe.

He said he didn't consider Europe a continent, he didn't say it doesn't exist.

Also: North and South America are far more geographically distinct that Europe and Asia.

 

[Rossiya]

North and South America are far more geographically distinct that Europe and Asia.

Yeah, and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Yeah, and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Yeah, they were chemical weapons.

Anyways, what the heck kind of answer is that? Is this the new Godwin's law? If someone makes a claim to which you disagree, rather than trying to say what you find wrong, just say "Yeah, and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "? I mean, what the fetch?