Posted on 07/12/2004 4:05:31 PM PDT by mkj6080
The collapse of the earth's magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago, the NY TIMES is planning to report on Page Ones Tuesday.
Science reporter Bill Broad has filed a report, according to newsroom sources, which explores how: 'The field's strength has waned 10 percent to 15 percent so far and this deterioration has accelerated of late, increasing debate over whether it portends a reversal of the lines of magnetic force that normally envelop the earth."
Broad explains: "During a reversal, the main field weakens, almost vanishes, and then reappears with opposite polarity. Afterward, compass needles that normally point north would point south, and during the thousands of years of transition much in the heavens and Earth would go askew."
Broad claims: "A reversal could knock out power grids, hurt astronauts and satellites, widen atmospheric ozone holes, send polar auroras flashing to the equator and confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid."
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REPENT ye sinners! Se post 158...
As many as it takes to tell the whole story of Abu Graibh.
Higher ionization in the new sky holes?
DE WD5ERP
They will go flying across the room and stick to the stove.
No, he's wrong. They will flip the refrigeraor upside down. Quick, run in the kitchen and make sure all of the jars in the refrigerator have their lids screwed on tightly.
What?! You mean it's gonna make 'em sterile??
Will Santa have to move now?
I minored in Geology and graduated in 1979....1979!! And my geology prof, Dr Williams at SMU, mentioned the reversal of the earth's magnetic field even then when discussing plate tectonics. [He also said next time it occurred if we were around, we'd all be fried by electromagnetic radiation...not a nice thought]
And yet the press makes this stuff look brand new.
Amazing....
Not to mention the fights here on FR about the South "winning" the Civil War.
Actually, it has to do with the way water flows into the bowl and nothing to do with the earth's rotation, magnetic fields or anythng else.
I rely on my ol' buddy down the street for guidance and direction, but he will be ok 'cause he is bipolar.
I have that book, and have read it... it dealt with a geographic pole shift. IIRC, ice build-up at the poles caused the "wobble" in the Earth's rotation to grow, until basically the Earth flopped on its side...
bttb
For for those of us who live in the real world, you are absolutely correct.
flip flops, God, Kerry is going to win the election, it is fate (not)
Though obviously they have some method of dealing with it.
I knew it! Why, he'll make a fortune and maybe share it with his Skull and Bones buddies, the Bilderbergers and perhaps the Queen of England.... aren't they thirteenth cousins, or something?;)))))
Senator Byrd on the Floor of the Senate, "Its not RIGHT, ITS... NOT... RIGHT...., MR. PRESIDENT, ITS........ NOOTTT....... RIGHTTTTT......!@@#$$%%
Uhh....actually, that would be Newark, N.J.
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