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<p>2A10:D586:3E93:0:BC2D:D58D:E8DA:AD90: Imaging, not imagine. Those are critically different.</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 3159<br /> | date = October 24, 2025<br /> | title = Continents<br /> | image = continents_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 276x430px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|This page was created by a TECTONIC PLATE-SIZED CONVEYOR BELT. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}<br /> {{w|Plate tectonics}} is the theory that the Earth's crust consists of a number of large land masses that have been slowly moving for billions of years. Continental drift was first proposed in the early 20th century, but it was controversial until the mid-1960's, due to advances in technology (such as seismic imaging) made the mechanism clear.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}<br /> &lt;p&gt;[Two spacecraft are in space]&lt;/p&gt;<br /> Spacecraft: Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they've been since the earth formed.<br /> &lt;p&gt;[Caption beneath panel:]&lt;/p&gt;<br /> I still can't believe we developed spaceflight before we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.<br /> {{comic discussion}}&lt;noinclude&gt;</div>

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