nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10785-0

wait what 😳

so someday new york and london will be neighbors

yeah. north america and europe are drifting apart

so the atlantic is the one getting bigger

oh right

no it’s shrinking because of subduction

so the pacific is getting wider?

it’s spreading like crazy

i think it’s the east pacific rise

so what’s the most active spreading center right now

gross but accurate

so the ring of fire is basically the earth burping

yep. the melting rock rises up

so is that why there’s so many volcanoes near subduction zones

haha yeah kinda

so the earth is just eating its own crust

like a cosmic recycling program

oh those are where the seafloor goes back into the mantle

so what’s the deal with subduction zones

that’s mind-blowing

so the ocean floor you’re looking at today might not exist in a million years

constantly recycling itself

idk that the seafloor is like a conveyor belt

so what’s the most surprising thing about all this

bummer

so we won’t be around to see it

like millions of years

that’s gonna take a while though

so someday there’ll be an east african ocean

yeah the east african rift