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Earth's Magnetic Field Could Flip in Our Lifetime
livescience.com ^
| October 17, 2014 01:20pm ET
| Kelly Dickerson,
Posted on 10/18/2014 7:44:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Earth's magnetic poles could flip sooner than originally expected. Credit: UC Berkeley
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posted on
10/18/2014 7:44:08 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
So will this affect global warming? Will liberals lecture us that we have to panic and do drastic things to change our lives, due to this polar shift?????
Sorry to be so cynical, but, get the feeling that somebody somewhere will use this to make a political statement................
To: Dilbert San Diego
Maybe it will lead to more effort made to “harden” the electrical grid.
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posted on
10/18/2014 7:48:48 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Man, is this going to mess up the weird gal who lives inside my Garmin!
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posted on
10/18/2014 7:49:00 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: IronJack
Just wait until she stars talking backwards.
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posted on
10/18/2014 7:50:08 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
We don’t have 800k years of climate data to know what this does to the climate, since the impact of carbon is so low, this could completely invalidate all of the statistical signal in the models.
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posted on
10/18/2014 7:52:26 AM PDT
by
dila813
To: BenLurkin
The only havoc that a reversal would wreak is interference in the global electric grid.Only?
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posted on
10/18/2014 7:53:36 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: BenLurkin
“Earth’s magnetic poles could flip sooner than originally expected”
Could being the key word here. Yellowstone could go off. The Cascadia Subduction Zone could cut loose. Some giant asteroid could hit us. Some black hole could swallow us. I’m not losing any sleep over any of the above.
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posted on
10/18/2014 7:58:17 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Not losing sleep? I guess you don't listen to Art Bell or his replacements.
The world will end
This I know
For Art Bell has
Told me so.
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:07:08 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
To: BenLurkin
Who will be the first to blame Bush?
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:14:58 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: I want the USA back
Life just isn’t safe anymore.
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:27:16 AM PDT
by
IncPen
(None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
FReepers, Let's go!
Everyone needs to donate!
All contributions are for the current quarter expenses.
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:27:54 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:29:18 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
I smell a government grant in the making.
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:33:12 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(There will be another crusade in our lifetime.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:34:47 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: BenLurkin
Will west and east stay the same?
To: IronJack
Good one! In reality, GPS systems are based on True North and Mag North/Headings are derived.
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:36:53 AM PDT
by
Shark24
To: Dilbert San Diego
“Will liberals lecture us that we have to panic and do drastic things to change our lives, due to this polar shift?????”
YES...we have to immediately reverse the polarity in our A/C electrical systems and then start plugging our appliance plugs in oppositely. If your appliances have the type of prongs where one blade is wider than the other...you’ll have to grind down the wider blade. You’ll probably also have to run your ceiling fan in reverse because your fan will run backwards.
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:40:36 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: BenLurkin
During the magnetic flip, will the earth lose it’s gravitational pull? Will people begin to float up into the sky?
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:41:27 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: Cowboy Bob
Tin hats will say ‘yes’.
But what doesn’t get discussed publicly is what happens during those thousand years’ of weakening magnetic field.
We may or may not live to see it, but you can bet the additional cosmic radiation reaching earth will play havoc on the biosphere, that includes the dominant species (in our case, the most arrogant species as well).
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