Tectonic plates are continuously shifting at the exact same speed that human fingernails grow, meaning the transatlantic flight from New York to London actually gets a tiny fraction of an inch longer every single year.

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Tectonic plates are continuously shifting at the exact same speed that human fingernails grow, meaning the transatlantic flight from New York to London actually gets a tiny fraction of an inch longer every single year. The continents of North America and Europe are slowly divorcing each other, expanding the Atlantic Ocean and practically ensuring that future generations will have to suffer through an extra millisecond of terrible airplane food. This geological drifting is utterly imperceptible to the daily commuter, but over millions of years, it completely rewrites the globe. You are literally paying exorbitant airfare to cross a body of water that is actively expanding while you fly over it, effectively making every international flight you ever take slightly less efficient than the one before it