GPlates: The Supercontinent - Worldbuilder’s Log 10

[@h.m.3533]

Failed Rift 1000 is a rather excellent band name

[@iamthestonks1652]

I don’t want to ruin the 69 likes sooooo… no like for you.

[@h.m.3533]

@@iamthestonks1652 nice

[@amehak1922]

And they rock!!

[@moonlight_cat_27]

Rock band :O

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@@moonlight_cat_27with some elements of metal and heavy metal mixed in~

[@dinoscarex4550]

Before i forget saying this and actually finishing watching the video i must say that I struggled, lots and lots, with creating a tectonic planet on GPLATES. I know where does that map come from, and seeing it on an artifexian video, i must say, I actually cried.

[@professorx3060]

I just checked out the episode 9 of the series, what a coincidence. You are doing wonderful job, thank you Artifexian!

[@Dark0Storm]

Was going t say in the last video that it'd be lovely to see some expansion of a tectonics tutorial go in to things like shields, basins, platforms etc... and lo and behold cratons appear. Would be great to hear about some of the others when they become relevant and how they impact further worldbuilding.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

I don't think they would come up. Cratons are stable parts of the continent, Orogeny is the unstable part. Thats enough I think, to draw and split continents. Maybe the LIP may come up, but I don't really see why it would.

[@itisALWAYSR.A.]

I'm fascinated how the final supercontinent at 26:00 ish appears to be rather Earth-like in its continental crust setup! With this in mind, i'm fascinated to see how the faults and rifts pull it apart, and how different it will end up looking =) Always a fun What If scenario made

[@jonathanthomas8736]

Good stuff, Edgar. A bit more accessible than WBPasta, and, after your part 9, I read enough WBP that I think I'm going to put together a step by step process and procedures document and a set of checklists and templates. I will, of course, share with you both if it goes anywhere.

[@waspsandwich6548]

Did it go anywhere?

[@idle_speculation]

Any updates?

[@KKkacperro]

When making continents i tend to work from present time backwards, so i have something good to fall back upon

[@greatikechukwu4032]

What are all the reasons why it's theorized there's no life on Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune; Or their moons!?🙏😟

[@greatikechukwu4032]

That's a really good idea so you know what dimensions and results you want and not depend on spontaneity or randomness

[@Kay-ql2wl]

@@greatikechukwu4032 those planets and moons are mostly unlikely to be able to support life because of their conditions

[@Jpteryx]

@@greatikechukwu4032 There could be underwater life on some of those planets' moons, like Europa, Enceladus, and Triton.

[@greatikechukwu4032]

@@Jpteryx Thank you

[@gregorio7945]

I'm gonna have to watch this videos a couple times. It's a little hard for my simple brain. Thanks for the cool videos.

[@ashtonisvibin561]

BABE NEW ARTIFEXIAN VID DROPPED

[@Dragrath1]

I know this is a late response but there actually was a sister analog to Iceland on the Pacific mid ocean ridge prior to 49 million years ago(Ma) the associated flood basalts that composed Siletzia and Yakut formed along the East Pacific Rise as a result of the formation of the Yellowstone hotspot 58-56 Ma suspiciously timed at exactly the same interval where the Icelandic hotspot and associated North Atlantic Large Igneous Province(NALIP) formed. On that note Iceland's location along the Mid Atlantic Ridge isn't down to chance either as the northern extension of the Mid Atlantic ridge didn't extend that far North. It was in fact a failed rift related to the initial break up of Pangaea that got reactivated leading to Greenland Rifting away from Eurasia 56 Ma. On that note to help visualize this the channel splitting Greenland from North America is also a failed rift that developed further from the same original rifting on Pangaea. So effectively North America and Eurasia only started to really separate in the far North around 56 Ma with the main Pangaea split dividing Gondwana from Laurasia.

[@ageh4chou]

A warning for anyone embarking in GPlates: There will be a time where you'll think, 'I'm gonna do this a little differently, because it looks easier'. Don't be tempted. You will have to redo 200my+ at a time because you forgot something important. Now-- if you'll pardon me, I have to go fix my flowlines. Again. T_____T

[@CuriosityCore101]

I just finished this part of worldbuilding for my story and even though this is step 1 I feel so accomplished. Thank you Artifexian!

[@pointyorb]

The start of these videos always sounds like one of those Portal 2 promotions. Like after the jingle finishes I keep expecting to just hear Cave Johnson talk about the gravity boots or whatever I like it

[@crimsonhawk52]

I can't hold back anymore -- after Continentality 1 looked so freakin cool, I had to come back to here and get started on my own world. It's time to learn GPlates

[@nerdya681]

how could this amazing channel only have 400 views!

[@Great_Olaf5]

Uh... I mean the channel has 22.5 million views. Not sure where you're getting 400 from unless it's the video at the point you clicked on it.

[@greatikechukwu4032]

What are all the reasons why it's theorized there's no life on Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune; Or their moons!?🙏😟

[@Alkis05]

Thank you, gplates e artifex for this series. Running this tectonic simulation is something I always wanted to do and could only dream of. Also, thanks for the spread sheet.

[@wurfelumdiewelt5301]

Thanks! Cant wait for episode 11 already! :)

[@blu9700]

Not really a fan of this software, but you do a great job explaining it, I usually prefer to just manually track my plates as it is more intuitive to me personally

[@Quizer9O8]

With so much information out there about plate tectonics you would've expected a way better plate tectonics simulator software to be out there other than GPlates.

[@GuiSmith]

@@Quizer9O8 as a software developer, I’ll just say the software-side simulation should be doable, it’s just that few people will want to do it. That said, I now feel the need to program this. See you in a year 🙃

[@ColinPaddock]

@@Quizer9O8 As with a lot of gis-type software GPlates does a really good job at what it was created for. Mostly playing back RW scenarios of Earth’s surface movements. Worldbuilding is a bit of a niche application.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

@@GuiSmith i think that, for the purposes of worldbuilding, the software should be less scientific and more artistic.

[@VectorJW9260]

@@daniel_rossy_explica Yeah, it should realyl just be a "vector drawing on a sphere" program

[@AlexArthur94]

I'm excited to have a computer where I can try GPlates now! It seems so much more accessible now thanks to this video. Thanks, Edgar! :D

[@randomsandwichian]

You'll need to give us a preview of how your set of continents drift once were done with this chapter, Edgar. I so look forward to a timelapse of it.

[@joshuabaughn3734]

The biggest real life example of a continental rift failing would be the Keweenawan Rift in my home state of Michigan. The actual rift extends from around St. Louis around the Upper Peninsula, then drops down sharply southwards and ends somewhere near Jackson Michigan. The result is a massive deposit of Copper with some Gold and even less Silver. It formed back when North America was part of Rodinia and subsequently healed and was buried in sediment. Then, the glaciers followed this weakened scar and cut Lake Superior's basin. The lake still follows the exact path that the rift took through North America.

[@ijahnnakehlam5919]

Whooo! Awesome video!

[@gregwochlik9233]

Wow, that is a nice master class in GPlates. Thank you.

[@zkingsalsa]

another awesome day

[@kingmasterlord]

oh look, an untapped D&D resource

[@Barcodum]

If you already have a map you want to end up with, is there a way to place that image into GPlates, mark out the plates/faults over that and have it work backward?

[@triasic4457]

you can go into file > import > import raster and then pick your world map and it'll map it out on the sphere, then you can draw your cratons and continental crust onto it. You can also hide the world map or any element if needed by clicking on the eye icon next to each of your layers. I haven't tried working my way backward from an already existing map personally so i'm not sure if or how that's possible but i'd like to do it for a world of mine soon

[@Barcodum]

@@triasic4457 Thanks. Now I just need to find a computer that’ll handle GPlates. All I have is an iPad and about 1.5gb of storage left on it.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

@@Barcodum GPlates as a piece of software is not that big. 1.5gb should be enough for the program and your rasters; remember that we are working with low poly, low ish resoultion here.

[@weltengeist]

Damn I waited for those videos so long!

[@dreiundsiebzig-zweiundsechzig]

Bruh just got an ad and then it asked me if I liked it! That means to me that YT is making personalized ads so you don’t skip them and then they make more money!!!

[@Gamewizard13th]

I am currently working on a supermassive flat world, I'm interested to see what sort of design techniques you use

[@autochton]

WorldbuildingPasta has a whole article on alternatives to tectonics, might be worth checking out for those interested. It covers, among other things, worlds with stable crusts.

[@pointyorb]

I think its a good idea to make a tectonic simulation as a practice, and then make another one, which this one you make actually represent your world. The first simulation could be used for a "B" world in your universe, for example I'm using it for a formerly habitable but now sterile sister planet to my main planet, you could use yours for some kind of exoplanet, or however you want.

[@otherperson]

Is there any way to ensure that the map that you end up with has certain key features that you want, like a given island or continent?

[@volcryndarkstar]

I assume you do this a few times with random starting conditions and follow through with them organically to their random conclusions. Then as you get more practice with this process, you can use your accumulated knowledge and experience to set up a start condition that will lead to the features you want. But I imagine the fewer specific goals you have, the easier it will be to set them up.

[@otherperson]

@@volcryndarkstar this is fair, although anyone who has a long established map and who want to belatedly add more complexity and realism will probably find this answer untenable. But I do agree, the fewer specific features you want to include, given the method you described, the better.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

@@otherperson i think you could work backwards from an established map if you really want to.

[@Jpteryx]

The plate tectonics process isn't entirely predictable from a given starting point: you have some control over things like when and how continents split up. If you get an outcome that you don't like much, you can either continue the simulation until it's something you like better, or you could rotate or flip the entire planet.

[@oddtail_tiger]

...I am subscribed to the channel, I have notifications enabled for videos. What's more, I've watched most if not all videos from the channel, some multiple times, so KZbin's algorithm presumably "knows" that I want to watch those. I have not received notifications for any of the episodes from this series from 0 to 9, that I've seen. I'm only now learning it exists. I suppose better late than never, but what's the purpose of YT's bell icon if it doesn't inform me about the channels I want to be informed about?

[@GrayderFox]

Gotta keep track of it manually, I think. :/

[@trishapellis]

There has been a problem a while back where several KZbinrs started saying that some of their fans had warned them that KZbin had silently unsubscribed a bunch of their subscribers - I don't know if KZbin wanted to clean up or if this happened accidentally, I can kind of see a mentality of "We'll unsubscribe the ones that subscribed a long time ago because channels change with time and they might not be interested anymore - and if they are still interested then they'll resubscribe themselves"... but whatever is behind them, it tends to be a good idea to just kinda check manually because KZbin can't be trusted. If you indeed both are still subscribed and still have notifications on, I have no clue, but I figured I might give a warning.

[@MaitreNaDaoine]

Great video as always Edgar. I was only 23hrs late this time!

[@vincentcleaver1925]

Better than my old stand by of tearing up paper continents and moving things about...

[@jantona]

I noticed that failed rifts are only drawn branching off of the main rifts. Is it unlikely/impossible for other failed triple junctions and rifts to form e.g. at the northern coast of the map shown at 26:00? would the successful rifts relieve the mantle pressure that would otherwise create other rifts? Or are they being left out because they're low-impact and being handwaved?

[@xiphosura413]

Very much the latter, triple junctions and failed rifts can occur in most any rifting scenario, but as per the connection with rivers, it's best to just look at the ones on land. This whole process is already just for the sake of it, with huge amounts of creative freedom :)

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

I don't think treating the Cratons as absolutely untouchable is fully correct. That image you showed with the Amazonian Craton shows quite a few that look like they broke off of each other, especially the Congo and Sao Francisco ones. I agree it should be a very rare occasion, but plumes under Cratons can still happen and a crack can cut through one if the alternative would be too unnatural.

[@mimkyodar]

My understanding is that he's working from a position of, in the present day, these are the cratons, so don't touch them. There's nothing stopping you creating cratons as you go, not all cratons on earth are the same age

[@idle_speculation]

Time to literally sell my soul to GPlates

[@HashFier]

We really need much better / intuitive sw than gplates. This seems like an artefact from ancient internet.

[@AgentCryo]

Layers pannel never opened for me

[@connormabe-kropf9251]

Could there be two massive continents in the northern and southern parts of the world? Basically creating a massive single ocean wrapping around the whole planet?

[@adamkotter6174]

That would create some really interesting currents and weather patterns!

[@adamkotter6174]

That would create some really interesting weather patterns!

[@connormabe-kropf9251]

@@adamkotter6174 Right? I wonder

[@trishapellis]

Well Artifexian's old videos are still here about how to arrange winds, ocean currents, biomes and the like, I think there was a comment on the North Pole circle since that's basically the same thing (a featureless expanse of ocean where the wind can just run rampant). You could check those out. Either way, what you say *is* possible but it may have the effect that you're not going to get some of the more interesting/ life-sustaining biomes (if you only have land around the poles, then all your land is gonna be fairly cold, and with the whole world surrounded in ocean around the equator, that may raise its albedo a little as well and reflect sunlight. You could make it a warmer planet to compensate, but in that case you're not gonna have some of the colder biomes... you get the idea.) If you're interested in the actual biomes and climate zones of your planet you could check out the old videos on how to arrange those and those could give you an idea of what you'd be missing/ how you could compensate etc. I also have an impression that you may get gigantic hurricanes this way, since hurricanes can keep on growing as long as they have a permanent influx of warm ocean water - hurricanes lose force when they hit land. The coriolis winds are eventually going to sweep a hurricane toward the pole of the hemisphere it's in, which basically means no place on that coastline is ever free from hurricanes the way, for example, the US West Coast is. It's just gonna be, hurricane forms near the equator on the North side, goes West for a while, then finally sweeps up to make landfall wherever it feels like. Same thing goes for the Southern hemisphere. All of that being said, if you have enough patience, eventually he'll make new videos on all of these subjects. And now that you've posted this question, I'm curious to see if he'll include it.

[@idle_speculation]

A similar effect could be achieved on a world with dying volcanism where ice caps reach very low latitudes, but I have a feeling it’d go full snowball with the slightest change in carbon dioxide levels

[@dorkish]

dude really is world building

[@a_ghost5950]

I keep messing up because I keep thinking I can do more than three Cratons and still follow along. The ROT file gets crazy large very quickly when I try to do more than three. Thinking I will try *again* but actually just do three cratons and make the land around them significantly larger.

[@SpaceDragon222]

Something I have been unable to find anything about is how to actually get to the preferences screen opened around 3:17. I have tried clicking the same area that was visibly clicked in this video, but nothing happens when I do so. Is it simply inaccesible on windows? Or is there some other route you need to go through to access it?

[@volcryndarkstar]

Can two cratons collide within the continent and pinch the continental crust in between into special orogeny types? And if possible, are there analogs of such formations on Earth?

[@autochton]

I think you'd get something Himalaya-like there? The cratons probably wouldn't reach each other, I think, but the crust between them would get squished real bad.

[@Jpteryx]

Cratons don't move within the plate that they're part of. Just think of them as the oldest sections of the crust. You can simulate plate tectonics without worrying about cratons if you prefer.

[@trishapellis]

I have now just started trying this, after watching the various videos on this subject and working up the courage, but I'm running into a question about the rifts. Aren't they supposed to go all the way... somewhere? To form an entire tectonic plate? I'm saying this because, when one of these pieces of continental crust moves into one direction, there's going to be a place on the planet where the tectonic plate that continental crust is on will subduct, and in that place, volcanic island chains will also be formed. However, the polygon lines that you use for rifting are just lines. You're not breaking up the whole crust of this planet into tectonic plates. Is that possible with Gplates?

[@spaceguy20_12]

when i pressed "create and save" on the create feature, all of them stopped responding

[@expertfrenchtoast3480]

how would i go about simulating the past rather than future? i have a specific layout / shape in mind for my world, and i just want to see how the plate tectonics would have behaved in the past

[@laMoria]

I don't have a direct answer to your question. However, your problem is just like mine. I have already the current map shape done, and I want to fiddle with plate tectonics to give me ideas for more detailed topology. What I would suggest you do is to find where your plates currently are, to mark them out on a map and to print them. And then just cut them and play with them until you get a super continent, or at least a bigger plate that you think you can model easily with G-Plate. Luckily for me there wasn't a lot to do

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

finally catching up

[@droptherapy2085]

Could this be used in tandem with a map of some tectonic plates or would it be better to just start with this and figure out the boundaries from there?

[@tripledeluxeguy]

Gplates has been a software I have hated for nearly 8 years now. Its just such a labor intensive software, which is even more painful because my current method of map fab just about requires it.

[@nukl3argam3r38]

I fully understand your Pain. Interestingly enough, on his Blog, Worldbuilding Pasta mentions Multiple ways to go about this, though I'm pretty sure they lack the Detail of Gplates in some Areas. worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com/2020/01/an-apple-pie-from-scratch-part-va.html#simulatingplatetectonics

[@spokeydokey5237]

So do we always have to start with a Pangea supercontinent? I know that we don’t have another point of reference here but Pangea “only” formed after the moon had and our current(ish) atmosphere and oceans formed. Would it be possible for an oceanic planet capable of supporting life to form with multiple disconnected plates already moving in multiple directions?

[@greatikechukwu4032]

What are all the reasons why it's theorized there's no life on Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune; Or their moons!?🙏😟

[@autochton]

An oceanic world like that would probably have some land, just not a lot. 5-10% maybe? If it has fairly small and many cratons, that land would then spread out fairly sparsely over time, so you might get some quite long supercontinent cycles...

[@Jpteryx]

The supercontinental cycle means that supercontinents will form and then break apart again and again. It's easier to start at a time that happens to have a supercontinent because then you only have to worry about one piece of continental crust to begin with.

[@trishapellis]

@@Jpteryx To add to this, the ways in which tectonic plates move in general means that you're always going to get *some* land eventually. As is explained in the videos following this one, subduction causes volcanism which creates land, evolving from the islands along the Bering Strait to the islands of Japan to the islands of Indonesia. That said, the only requirements for tectonic activity, as far as I'm aware, are a hot and active mantel in your planet. As long as you have that, you're going to get tectonic plates regardless (unless, as is mentioned in the video, you have more than 60% continental crust...). So I do think you can have an ocean planet with tectonic plate movements... however, by the time life starts evolving, I do have the impression some land is going to exist already by that point because as I mentioned before, tectonic activity means volcanism means continental crust being formed by volcanism. Then again, the more water there is on your planet, the more a volcano would need to grow to rise up above the sealevel and become land. You could basically say that your ocean is just so deep that even Mount Everest would barely reach the ocean surface, as long as you account for that with the density of your planet and the climate (considering distance from the star and albedo) and such. Aside from that, land starts eroding as soon as it sticks out above the water's surface, so any land that has formed previously could have eroded away in the moment you want to focus on in the planet's history.

[@laMoria]

Pew this is something to comprehend 😅

[@TheStickCollector]

Good

[@CaughtDingoes]

Can you reverse your playlist so it flows in the order someone would need it?

[@susandarber9942]

@artifexian how would you do this, if you already had a modern day map of your world?

[@SotraEngine4]

Is it like OK to make an island world filled with tiny cratons that just yeet themselves into the ocean?

[@patrickbliss9264]

15:11 I didn't know you were making 4546B.

[@kimberlyvance3131]

This feels like a little bit of a stupid question, but would it be possible to start with a "modern day" map and run this kind of thing backwards? My gut says no, but I don't understand the science behind this well enough to know if that's the right answer.

[@Jpteryx]

It would be a lot harder to get a realistic plate tectonic history working backwards.

[@jamesgeary4294]

Have you seen any research to say whether a world with only as much continental crust as your example here would still develop plate tectonics?

[@greatikechukwu4032]

What are all the reasons why it's theorized there's no life on Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune; Or their moons!?🙏😟

[@trishapellis]

@@greatikechukwu4032 Why are you asking this randomly on other people's questions? Like i've asked this question to someone else who was doing this once and they said that "saying it directly to a person who had already posted made it more likely that that person would respond" but they did not receive a single answer on that occasion, and the thing is, the people whom you're asking may just not know or not feel like answering. Like, a) you're hijacking other people's questions or comments with something that has nothing to do with what they're trying to have a conversation about, and b) you're not actually receiving any answers. I see that you also posted your question individually in the comment section, which would maximize the potential for receiving an answer, but... if people don't answer, then that just means that either nobody knows or nobody feels like answering you. That's without mentioning... my friend, have you heard of Google? Your question doesn't even have anything to do with the subject of the video you're commenting on. Jupiter doesn't have plate tectonics. I don't understand why you expect to find an answer to this question, in the comments section of a video that doesn't have a single iota to do with the subject of your question. James Geary, the person you're responding to, is directly asking Artifexian a question that Artifexian is likely to know the answer to, that is directly related to something Artifexian says in this video, and Artifexian might include the anwer in a next video because it is relevant. Go to Google and type "Why is there no life on Jupiter", read the websites you find. Then type in "Why is there no life on Uranus", and so on. When it comes to their moons, several moons of both Jupiter and Saturn are theorized to potentially be able to house life, because they are theorized to have liquid water oceans, but we aren't sure yet because these celestial bodies are *really* far away and it's hard to actually go and check... but I have learned this from KZbin videos that *were actually about the subject* and by searching on Google. You can't expect random strangers to spend their time educating you if all the knowledge you seek is freely available on the internet and very easy to find. Make a bit of an effort and find it. If you want a hint, start with the KZbin channel Geographics, which has videos about quite a few of the celestial bodies you're asking about.

[@AtarahDerek]

A craton, in effect, is a continental seed.

[@Kromiball]

19:51 You accidentally created a crudely drawn Africa on the eastern side

[@GeneralVexis]

Tried scrolling but didn't see any responses for it - Is there an invert feature function that I can use? I'm drawing my continental crust that covers roughly 33% of my surface area but GPlates seems to want to fill in the wrong side of the planet (the ocean outside the super-continent). I've been stuck on this for days.

[@GeneralVexis]

In the meantime I just went ahead and kept the continental crust as an outline and went ahead in the process. Since smaller continental crust will fill regularly I might just make a new continental crust feature for the non-supercontinent outlines.

[@sophustranquillitastv4468]

Is it easier to create present day placement first? Or is it this way that is easier? If we create it this way, we don't know whether the continental placement will become like what we want when it progressed to the present day scenario. Or is it not?

[@Jpteryx]

If you want to simulate plate tectonics, it's easier to start with a supercontinent and then progress forwards in time. But if you don't care that much about a detailed plate history, you could just make your present day world and not worry about moving plates around.

[@1354-w3d]

exiting

[@AtomicSorcery]

Could use this to simulate tidal forces if you wanted a volcanic moon like Io?

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

I don't think Gplates is capable to simulate that because it would requiere another body (like a moon) and the program only works with 1 body at the time.

[@DoniusBelgius]

Oct 12, 1005

[@4984christian]

I plan to use a highly geometric setup that only allows me a 36% or above land area. Does anyone know if that is fine? It's well under 50% but I am sceptical that there will not be enough ocean.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

With this video you have explained the GPlates UI for the 3rd time. Long time subscribers of Artifexian (like me) are pretty used to the program, so I think most people don't really need the introduction. Of course, just explaining the latter part of the process without explaining the tools first would be wrong for a single video, but as a explanation is a bit repetitive.

[@benjamyn]

I've watched the other GPlate videos and I felt this episode in particular had a better explanation of how to use the program than the previous ones. I gave up before but this video makes me want to try again.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

@@benjamyn the basic tools of gplates are not that hard to use. Maybe it is easy for me because I'm used to vector based programs, but it may not be easy for you. My bad, sorry.

[@jern2216]

Today am gonna show you how to create your own tectonic plate history of your planet - today is apparently 6 months long xd

[@purplefish2786]

How to update gplates???

[@boenia]

Hey, where the simulation???

[@Hwelhos]

what happens if the plate id is 0?

[@volcryndarkstar]

Negative mass. It turns to antimatter and blows up the planet in spectacular fashion.

[@Hwelhos]

@@volcryndarkstar always love it when that happens

[@1TW1-m5i]

I feel bad for the failed rifts.

[@goodgame5179]

It doesn't work because I'm on mobile

[@platinum_pixel1]

Cratons are what I put on my salad 🥗

[@sohrabroozbahani4700]

Class... dismissed... this is seriously academic level world building...

[@genybr]

Using 32bit system in 2022?? Even me had to migrate.

[@patrickbliss9264]

What's your thoughts on the planets of Subnautica and Avatar The Last Airbender?

[@AileenDemelis-r8c]

Haley Street

[@gavinquirke-yv5oo]

Can you use a program that everyone can access, gplates can only work on 3 computers

[@Artifexian]

GPlates is free and works on Mac (x86 and arm), windows and linux. That's as accessible as it gets for this class of app.

[@cirrusfraliose1482]

Can GPlates emulate a donut world ? I'm serious for this question i'm working on one of these world

[@Aerostarm]

Perhaps. But tectonic activity is different on a donut world

[@Jpteryx]

No, and simulating tectonics on a donut world will be very hard because plates will have to deform whenever they move any direction other than east and west.

[@sophustranquillitastv4468]

This program is a piece of work that most of the time failed to compiled and failed to launch when I using Rolling Release Linux distro and on stable distro can compile and launch successfully in really random occasion. And I still don't know the condition that make this software usable in each distros. Having all it's dependencies doesn't guarantee it will work.

[@autochton]

Yeah, I had similar trouble with v2.1. But seems v2.3 is a lot more up to date and using supported dependencies.

[@sophustranquillitastv4468]

@@autochton Version 2.3 is look like it's working fine at the first glance. I installed it on Arch Linux around August last year. But since then I have to update the system as if I didn't update in a long time something in my system will break when install something further, as it's Arch Linux nature. I launch Gplates again after that and this time it didn't work anymore as the library version got updates. And even when I recompile it's failed at 42%, not successful like the last time. Library version after update should still support the program if I could recompile but I can't. So, that's make the program essentially unusable in rolling release distros. So I have to install it inside Ubuntu-based distros inside a VM and then extracted from it, as the only distros the developer of this project supported are Ubuntu based distros and it even use dedicated DEB for each version. To be honest, I'd like the developer to port this program to Flatpak so that it can be installed in all Linux distros without maintaining this many different binaries.

[@styxdragoncharon4003]

I started writing again... for a TTRPG.... I need to make a f ton of visuals.... this is gonna be rough...

[@taqcoeng4740]

36th comment. Also good video 👍

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

[@EmpireofDesertia]

Bro just found out what capitalism is

[@Neon-ws8er]

kratos

[@GDMasterA]

Early

[@HewlettCornelius]

8286 Rafael Plaza

[@greatikechukwu4032]

What are all the reasons why it's theorized there's no life on Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune; Or their moons!?🙏😟

[@Aerostarm]

What do you think?

[@greatikechukwu4032]

@@Aerostarm Only a few things. I really think it's possible that it'd be terraformed.

[@greatikechukwu4032]

@@Aerostarm I'm sorry. I'm spamming... I just thought a fandom that deals with terraforming and geo biology would think up the possibility of these planets ever having biology or some hidden life in a terra incognita

[@leave-a-comment-at-the-door]

Dude, patience is a virtue. You don't need to go and spam your comment into everyone's replies if it's not relevant to the original comment to get your question answered. Us question answerers will go through all the comments on the video anyway, and spamming just makes your question to raise a flag in the youtube system and risks all of your comments being deleted

[@leave-a-comment-at-the-door]

@@greatikechukwu4032 Get ready, because people have been thinking about this thing for forever, so the list is long: *Rarity of intelligent life:* Extraterrestrial life is rare or non-existent Extraterrestrial intelligence is rare or non-existent Periodic extinction by natural events *Evolutionary explanations:* Intelligent alien species have not developed advanced technologies It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy others Civilizations only broadcast detectable signals for a brief period of time Alien life may be too different from us to know *Sociological explanations:* Colonization is not the cosmic norm Alien species may have only settled part of the galaxy Alien species may not live on planets Alien species may isolate themselves from the outside world *Economic explanations:* Lack of resources needed to physically spread throughout the galaxy It is cheaper to transfer information than explore physically *Discovery of extraterrestrial life is too difficult:* Humans have not listened properly Humans have not listened for long enough Intelligent life may be too far away Intelligent life may exist hidden from view *Willingness to communicate:* Everyone is listening but no one is transmitting Communication is dangerous Earth is deliberately avoided Earth is deliberately isolated (planetarium hypothesis) *Alien life is already here unacknowledged:*

[@天野やな丸]

hallo

[@susandarber9942]

@artifexian how would you do this, if you already had a modern day map of your world?