Some 20 Belgians plan their escape, page 1

After months of research via official and unofficial sources, they discovered that every 12,000 years a polar reversal of the North and South pole occurs on Earth. The last polar reversal occurred around 9,800 BC. Proof for this are the frozen to death mammoths with undigested food in their stomach, large amounts of fossils of sea animals in the high mountains, ...
Prehistoric polar reversals and earlier cataclysms are no secret for the established scientific community, yet these people hope these events wont repeat themselves today. Today NASA keeps precise track of the North pole traveling South, and they admit that the speed of the North pole’s acceleration increased dramatically the last few years. Furthermore, NASA recently confirmed there will be a ‘problematic weakening’ of the Earth’s protective magnetic field around 2012. Quote

The Migration Begins?

In view of the economy, wars and other life issues we now face many surmise that a new "Grapes of Wrath" exodus could occur at different points of geography on God's green earth.

The factor which many left out was the 2012 factor. And the 2012 factor seems to lend itself to a variety cultural myth fulfillment which may result in an underlying uneasiness. This may also help masses of people to relocate and it seems that our government is aware of this. Hence Obama bringing NASA and the military together as we have all read in recent news releases.(If you believe that a catastophic event is evident)

I first read about catastrophic geology when I was about 12 years old and came upon a Russian scientist’s deep look into the "polar axis flips". The Russian scientist, Immanuel Velikovsky, introduced to me while reading comic books, had written a few very interesting books which I happened to find at a book store in Saskatchewan.

About 5 years later I asked a Geology professor about “polar axis flips” and he replied “nonsense”! Catastrophism was not a popular item with him.

It seems that 25 years has caused a shift in more then the Earth’s tectonic plates as many scientists now agree with some areas of what is now classified as Catastrophism.

As I read onward in the article it states that NASA now has data stating that the North Pole has increased in speed in relation to its Southern movement. The article throws out the date 2012.

Well, as stated, this may further cause some civil unrest as well as irrational behaviour if coupled with other stresses such as an economic turndown. The power that 2012 gives to a populace resides in the idea that it fulfills so many cross culture myths. This in turn lends itself to a variety of influences which generally tend toward extremism. Extremism can lead to unrest if the conditions are right and this can lead to violent pushback. This may be why extremism is now being equated to terrorism in many think tanks in Western society.

I wonder if this Belgian group is only an anomaly on the horizon or could it be a landmark?

This may prove to be the latter.

Urban Survival pointed out another connection with the solar storms.

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Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months

A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm.

Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation.

The prediction is based in part on a major solar storm in 1859 that caused telegraph wires to short out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires.

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www.foxnews.com...

To balance out the above point of view here is an article written by a scientist/professor.
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Can the Earth's Axis Flip?
Yet another common catastrophist theme has to do with causing the Earth's axis to shift somehow. When I mention continental drift to non-scientists, I often am asked if having the continents all together as they were 200 million years ago might have unbalanced the Earth. Surprisingly, the Earth's continents are closely bunched now. If you look down on Paris on a globe, you will see a hemisphere containing most of the Earth's land. If you look down on the opposite point on the globe (southeast of New Zealand), you will see a hemisphere almost entirely covered by ocean. The Earth is very asymmetrical - in fact there is very little land on earth diametrically opposite other land - but a second surprising point is that the distribution of continents and oceans has almost no effect on the balance of the Earth. First of all, the crust is only 1/300 of the Earth's mass, and second, recall that the crust 'floats' on the plastic mantle. Continental crust is thick and high, but it's light. Oceanic crust is thin and low, but it's dense. This buoyant effect, called isostasy, in effect makes the Earth self-balancing. The plasticity of the Earth's interior has another important side effect. The centrifugal force resulting from the Earth's rotation causes the Earth to bulge at the Equator by about 14 miles. Changing the rotation of a sphere is hard, changing the rotation of an ellipsoid like the Earth is harder yet. The Earth has a lot of extra mass where it counts most. Finally, recall your attempt to get your swivel chair rotating; the Earth cannot cause its own rotation to change significantly.

Some people think of the Earth's axis "flipping over," like a top falling on its side or perhaps like one of the novelty tops that spontaneously flips over. But tops change their motion because they are balanced on a firm surface and because gravity is pulling them downward. Under zero gravity conditions, like in a spacecraft, both types of tops would spin until they slowed due to air resistance. In space, with no air, they would spin forever, and not flip or fall over. The Earth is spinning like a top, but like one spinning in space.

The amount of energy contained in the earth's rotation is pretty large: 2.1 x 1029 joules. You'd have to supply an appreciable fraction of that to change the earth's rotation in any major way. To put this number in perspective, a megaton is 4 x 1015 joules. You'd have to supply about 5 x 1014 megatons, or about 100 million times the total nuclear arsenal of the Earth. So we can see that the science fiction theme of a nuclear blast affecting the earth's rotation is just plain impossible. The kinetic energy of the earth in its orbit is about 2.7 x 1033 joules or about 10,000 times its rotational energy, so the entire earth's nuclear arsenal could hardly affect the earth in its orbit even if we could somehow deliver the energy effectively.

Another way to look at this is that it takes 400,000 joules to melt a kilogram of rock, so to change the earth's rotation, you'd liberate enough energy to melt 5 x 1023 kilograms of rock or almost 10 per cent of the earth.

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www.uwgb.edu...

After reading the Dutch article on catastrophic evens we can see that the media may be overstating certain ideas.

Of course I wonder if the Dutch professor has ever read Immanuel Velikovsky or has he simply read what others have said about him?

Interesting times.

www.indymedia.org
(visit the link for the full news article)

[edit on 9-1-2009 by whiteraven]