America, Eurasia To Collide at North Pole

... 50-200 million years from now, of course.

No, it's not a sign of some forthcoming war for the resources locked in the high Arctic. But in some 50 million to 200 million years, long after humanity has either reduced the planet to an ashen wasteland or left for a moon of Jupiter, North America and Eurasia will smash into each other at the North Pole, according to researchers at Yale University. Africa and Australia will also join in on the intercontinental group hug, while South America will move into North America by closing off the Caribbean Sea. The only continent that won't join up appears to be Antarctica, because apparently it's too good for us or something (that "something" being plate tectonic theory). The Yale researchers determined the continents' eventual locations by analyzing the magnetic orientation of rocks from the previous supercontinents – Nuna, from about 1.8 billion years ago, Rodinia, from about a billion years ago, and Pangaea, upon which the dinosaurs roamed. What they found was that in each era, the supercontinent was focused about 90 degrees of latitude away from its predecessor, leading the team to posit that the next supercontinent, Amasia, would be centred around the North Pole. Talk about your globalization ...