Touching North America and Europe at the same time

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image showing Touching North America and Europe at the same time

I-Love-A-but-not-Lot on October 11st, 2021 at 02:09 UTC »

Stick around for like 50 years and depending on the tectonic plates you’ll either not be able to do this or crushed to death slowly at a rate of (assuming) 3 ish centimeters per year.

TestFlyJets on October 11st, 2021 at 02:28 UTC »

Many people, me included, thought this picture is of a scuba diver in the ocean. It’s actually in a lake in the national park where the two continental plates are separated. Learned that in August when we visited Iceland.

Peter_Panarchy on October 11st, 2021 at 04:08 UTC »

Not really. Technically he is between the continental plates, but that area between stretches for miles and he most certainly isn't touching both plates with either hand. It isn't the point where the continents divide, but one of the many fissures in the wide area where the continents are separating.

Tom Scott explains in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-khe6IY9bTM