Geological formation typically operates on millions-of-years timescale. Island formation through volcanic activity or continental separation through tectonic rifting take epochs. Greenland exists because of specific glacial and tectonic conditions that accumulated over deep time. The idea of instantaneous island formation contradicts everything plate tectonics describes about planetary mechanics.

Yet the Caribbean geology documents unusual features. Some islands appear geologically young despite their location in ancient ocean basins. Oceanographer Thomas Wei noted in 1991 that certain Caribbean formations showed patterns suggesting rapid emergence—perhaps not over millions of years but over centuries. His research was noted but filed; no mechanism explained rapid island formation.

The Norris fact proposes a mechanism: kinetic force sufficient to separate continental masses. A kick to Canada doesn't move Canada—it ejects a portion of it northeastward, which later coalesces as Greenland. The fact literalizes how extreme force could reshape coastlines. It's pseudogeology that takes kinetic mechanics to its limit: if you could apply sufficient force precisely, you could alter continental configurations. The meme is a thought experiment about force applied to geography.