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What Will Happen When the Sun’s Magnetic Poles Reverse?
universetoday.com ^
| August 6, 2013
| by Nancy Atkinson on
Posted on 08/06/2013 4:25:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The flip-flopping of the Suns magnetic field takes place at the peak of each solar activity cycle when the Suns internal magnetic dynamo reorients itself. When the field reversal happens, the magnetic field weakens, then dies down to zero before emerging again with a reversed polarity.
While this is not a catastrophic event, the reversal will have effects, said solar physicist Todd Hoeksema, the director of Stanford Universitys Wilcox Solar Observatory, who monitors the Suns polar magnetic fields. This change will have ripple effects throughout the Solar System, he said.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; maunderminimum
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To: cripplecreek
To: Zeneta
Of course it happens on earth too. There exist within the crust proof of magnetic pole shifts. But these pole shifts on earth are seperated by much monger durations (25,000 to 30,000 years) and tend to be of a more catastrophic nature.
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:50:36 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:51:22 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Actually, they have to do that every few decades anyway because the magnetic poles tend to drift. Runway 15/33 at Toronto Pearson was originally 14/32.
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:53:25 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
To: clamper1797
We are all gonna DIE !!!!! In less than 125 years every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead!!!
It is all Bush's fault. Women and minorities will be hardest hit.
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:54:58 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
To: BenLurkin
The poles will no longer be working full shifts.
Unfortunately there are rumblings that the sun wants to unionize.
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:56:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Nifster
Of course it happens on earth too. There exist within the crust proof of magnetic pole shifts. But these pole shifts on earth are seperated by much monger durations (25,000 to 30,000 years) and tend to be of a more catastrophic nature. Happens, Happened, errr....I can't seem to remember the last time.
I must be getting old.
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:56:59 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
To: BenLurkin
. . .well, in any case, Obama will STILL not have a d*ck. . . . .
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:58:11 PM PDT
by
Salgak
(http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
To: Zeneta
happened last time well before either of us were here
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posted on
08/06/2013 4:58:44 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: Nifster
happened last time well before either of us were here Really ?
For a minute there I thought I missed something.
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:00:14 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
To: Larry Lucido
To: Zeneta
maybe it was that extra nap you took
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:08:52 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: BenLurkin
this has already happened to john mccain
To: Squawk 8888
But that is minor. When 28 and 10 swap ends that’s huge.
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:11:39 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
To: Daffynition; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BenLurkin; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; ...
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:11:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: BenLurkin
This, too, is obviously the fault of Bush and the Republicans.
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:14:09 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: cripplecreek
I think you were beaten to the punch by Bindar Dundat.
To: BenLurkin
Severe dysentery with a low-grade fever....
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:18:50 PM PDT
by
GenXteacher
(You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
To: BenLurkin
Well, if the sun doesn’t use his mirrors, he’ll back into a light pole.
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:23:55 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Salgak
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posted on
08/06/2013 5:41:02 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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