[wcarss]

Interesting! I wonder when reading things like that about our resolution when discussing such grand scales of time, and the effects of generalization/abstraction on our personal conclusions.

For example, it likely didn't really rain 24/7 ~everywhere on the planet for ~2 million years straight, but, that was my initial picture upon reading what you said. I said out loud to myself, "wow", and then read the article you linked.

Rather, it seems more like: over that period of 2 million years, across the exposed land mass of Pangaea (which was large, but only covered ~1/3rd of the planet) the climate was overall much more humid than most places are today, and it likely rained often.

That is not anywhere near as absurd to imagine, though it's still pretty darn cool.