Posted on 12/14/2012 3:37:36 AM PST by Kartographer
As believers across the globe prepare for the forecast Mayan apocalypse, a Chinese villager says hes going to save humanity with his giant tsunami proof survival pods. The pods are made using a fiberglass casing over a steel frame, cost $48,000 each to make and are equipped with oxygen tanks, food and water supplies. They also come with seat belts essential for surviving in storms. The pod wont have any problems even if there are 1,000 meter high waves, its like a ping pong ball, its skin may be thin but it can withstand a lot of pressure, the balls creator Liu Qiyuan, told AFP from his workshop outside Beijing. The pods are designed to carry 14 people at a time, but its possible for 30 people to survive inside for at least two months, insisted Liu Indeed, their insulation is such that a person could live for four months in the pod at the north or south pole without freezing, Liu continued.
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I wonder where the two months supply of food and water for thirty people goes after it has been used ...
Magnetic pole shifts are, geologically speaking, rather common. Real pole shifts, where the earths crust slides around—kind of like the loose skin on a tangerine—is a theory.
The waves of earth were suggested in a book I read about Pole shifts in back in my college days. My Geology prof talked about it, and why it would not matter—everything gets wrecked.
Clearly there has been a series of events that have taken the earth back to near zero in terms of life. Usually associated with asteroids hitting.
Magnetic pole shifts would cause some disruption to some navigation issues, but it would not really impact the physical world a whole lot. Certainly not to the degree that a lot of survivalist present.
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