
Episode 2: Terra Firma and the Firmament
Worldbuilding for Masochists
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The Impact of Ocean Currents on the Earth's Climate
I like large continents because I am a fan of more political kind of stories, and empires and vast holdings of land. Having big continents gives you the opportunity to have countries that have multiple kinds of environments within them. And if you only had tiny, tiny little islands, then you don't quite have that opportunity. Have you heard the rubber duckies story? Possibly. That there was a container, a shipment container of rubber duckies coming from China to the US. And they went overboard. There were these thousands of rubber duckied and they found themselves all over the world.
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