Posted on 05/19/2020 12:50:10 PM PDT by yoe
The location of Earths north magnetic pole appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. The Siberian blob is winning, according to scientists.
You probably know that a compass doesnt point to true north. Earths geographic north pole and magnetic north pole were first recognized as two different places in 1831. Until the early 1990s, the magnetic North Pole was known to lie some 1,000 miles south of true north, in Canada. Yet, as scientists realized, the location of magnetic north was not fixed. Magnetic north was drifting at a rate of up to about 9 miles (15 km) a year. Since the 1990s, however, the drift of Earths magnetic north pole has turned into more of a sprint, scientists say. Its present speed is about 30 to nearly 40 miles a year (50-60 km a year) toward Siberia. And now using satellite measurements scientists in Europe have helped confirm a theory as to why Earths magnetic north pole is drifting so rapidly.
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Worth keeping in a file....wait for the confusion to start...opinions from the "experts" then the politicians will try to tax whatever the "experts" say....'an so it goes.
Canadas blob is colluding with Siberias.
Its present speed is about 30 to nearly 40 miles a year (50-60 km a year) toward Siberia.
Those commie bastages!
East is Least West is Best,from my Compass Rose days back 4 GPS
The North Pole is sad about Global Warming and dead Polar Bears.
It is sinking southward in despair.
True virgins make dull company at weddings.
he who controls kamchatka, rules the world...
old risk proverb.
he who controls kamchatka, rules the world...
old risk proverb.
Dead men vote twice at elections.
That was always my strategy and I always won.
Eventually, no one wanted to pay RISK with me anymore.
/remember Irkutsk
My son Vanya was born in Petropvlovsk-Kamchatskiy!
To full-blooded Koryak parents.
Born for greatness!
Not sure I agree with that one. Never saw anyone hold Asia.
I forget how many miles are in a degree, but if you’re using an old-fashioned magnetic compass you’ll have to start allowing for the drift.
So I guess we might be seeing if this polar shift will have some affect on the Yellowstone caldera
The location of Earths north magnetic pole appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. The Siberian blob is winning, according to scientists.
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Jeezee Loueezee, Canada. Can’t you do anything right?
Letting your magnetic blob get beat by the Siberian blob? No one even lives in Siberia! How can the Siberian team even get any players?
i never saw that one...
thanks
Is the idea to build up in Asia because few players want to contest it, and then move on to an easier to defend area?
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