1.5 APOD

This APOD of September 22, 2007
is actually a drawn prediction of what the world will look like in about 250 million years. They're dubbing the continent "Pangea Ultima" (remember from history class that the original continent that all of our current continents broke from is called Pangea). This is kind of confusing, but apparently the continents once formed a super continent called Rodinia about 1100 million years ago, the continents split up, and then 600 million years ago came back together and formed Pangea, and then split up into our present day continents. The reason for the shift in continents is plate tectonics - the earth is made of up plates that constantly shift and move and bump into each other and cause volcanoes, mountain ridges, earthquakes, and other geographic things.
Pangea was actually different from the projection of Pangea Ultima, because Pangea had Australia and Antarctica actually as a part of the continent, whereas in Pangea Ultima they're still seperate from everything else. This drawing was created by the PALEAOMAP Project. Notice the new mountain range and the disappearance of our dear Atlantic Ocean.