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Originally posted by tarifa37
Absolutely nothing to worry about read my post a couple above.
Dec. 16, 2008: NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics. "At first I didn't believe it," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction."
Sept. 23, 2008: In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power. "The average pressure of the solar wind has dropped more than 20% since the mid-1990s," says Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "This is the weakest it's been since we began monitoring solar wind almost 50 years ago."
How unusual is this event? "It's hard to say. We've only been monitoring solar wind since the early years of the Space Age—from the early 60s to the present," says Posner. "Over that period of time, it's unique. How the event stands out over centuries or millennia, however, is anybody's guess. We don't have data going back that far."
"The solar wind isn't inflating the heliosphere as much as it used to," says McComas. "That means less shielding against cosmic rays."
Originally posted by zorgon
Pole Shift... no magnetic shield around Earth for several days (well the Scientists don't REALLY know how long), so no shield against Cosmic radiation...
Okay. The magnetic pole shifted. The PTB play this event down all the time. But isn't that a concern? Won't the core soon follow?
SGR 1806-20 has a magnetic field that is a quadrillion times stronger than that of the Earth.
32.0 1×1021 yottatons 4.2×1030 YJ Approximate magnitude of the starquake on the magnetar SGR 1806-20, registered on December 27, 2004.
Originally posted by verylowfrequency
Originally posted by zorgon
Pole Shift... no magnetic shield around Earth for several days (well the Scientists don't REALLY know how long), so no shield against Cosmic radiation...
Yep, that's really it. Doesn't mean anything will happen, just means we are more susceptible to CME's and unprotected for a period of time. Could be nothing or could be the end of life as we know it. Anything from knocking out a few satellites & the power grid to massive ELE or even getting part of our atmosphere blown off.
No reason to raise any alarms as there's nothing we can do about it, though It would be nice to have a pass to one of those underground safe zones if such an event occurs.
Originally posted by akapapasmurf
im not convinced this would cause birds to die off at that rate if you look into the patterns and types of birds dying youl'e see its almost as if they were targeted
Originally posted by Sunlionspirit
let's go back to Tampa, the one it is all about : why just only Tampa ??
if this is all about magnetic shift why not all the other airports ??
what about the shipping around the world ??
somebody knows more about this practical questions ?
Originally posted by GhostR1der
reply to post by Human_Alien
I tried a compass that has been in storage since I was younger. North has appeared to swung to the right more than I remember (before seeing this thread too I may add). I'll check vs gps. My aeronautical maps put my area at +20 east magnetic deviation from map north, I will do some checking tomorrow and see if 20 degrees is still accurate.
New research shows the pole moving at rapid clip—25 miles (40 kilometers) a year.Over the past century the pole has moved 685 miles (1,100 kilometers) from Arctic Canada toward Siberia, says Joe Stoner, a paleomagnetist at Oregon State University.