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Originally posted by Bicent76
I do not think our Scientists, have ever witnessed a pole shift. In theory or our best guess is the last time this occured was over 750,000 years ago or something..
en.wikipedia.org...'s_magnetic_field
I know everyone does not like wiki, but he teaches me ALLOT...
thats my reply.. I would like to see some science on this as well please..
S&F
Originally posted by Thought Provoker
The problem with magnetic pole reversals isn't that we have to re-make all compasses; it's that there will be very few people left to re-make them after the flip. During the reversal, you see, there will be years and years where the earth effectively has no magnetic field at all. And during that time, all the solar and stellar radiation constantly bouncing off our magnetic field won't bounce anymore. It'll go straight through to the ground, and to us. There will be aurorae visible from pole to pole, which will be pretty, but the baking of all living things in hard ionizing radiation won't be as pretty. Already, they've found an area running from the Pacific to the Atlantic (across the middle of Brazil) where the field has mostly gone away. It's almost thin enough to be dangerous. So if you had any plans to move to South America, rethink them... though I can't think of anywhere safer, except maybe on the bottom of the Pacific. I wonder if this is why the US government has been building underground bases like mad for the past couple of decades...
Originally posted by spinalremain
Who knows though. Maybe the spaghetti monster will appear and make us all watch American Idol and it really will be torture?
Originally posted by spinalremain
I never understood these "end times" threads. If the ppl proposing them would suddenly think to themselves . ........ "hey I just started paying attention to the news, maybe the world has always been messed up??" Then this would have never happened. Just like Woody going to the police.
[edit on 20-1-2010 by spinalremain]