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NYT: COLLAPSE OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD ACCELERATES (Via Drudge)
Drudge Report ^ | 7/12/04 | Drudge

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."

Developing...


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blameozone; doomed; halliburton; itsbushsfault; suvsdidit; theskyisfalling; wereallgonnadie
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To: glock rocks; WestCoastGal; NormsRevenge; ChefKeith

REPENT ye sinners! Se post 158...


161 posted on 07/12/2004 8:05:03 PM PDT by tubebender (If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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To: Dog Gone
How many Page Ones does the Times have?

As many as it takes to tell the whole story of Abu Graibh.

162 posted on 07/12/2004 8:10:16 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Nowhere Man
I wonder how this will effect 10 meter DX?

Higher ionization in the new sky holes?
DE WD5ERP

163 posted on 07/12/2004 8:12:08 PM PDT by Vortex
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To: mkj6080

164 posted on 07/12/2004 8:12:11 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Ni Jesus, Ni Marx..OUI REAGAN!)
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To: Nick Danger; al baby
How will this affect the millions of refrigerator magnets ?

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.

165 posted on 07/12/2004 8:19:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: mkj6080
The animal issue is interesting since this has happened before and the animals have been able to adopt.

What?! You mean it's gonna make 'em sterile??

166 posted on 07/12/2004 8:37:44 PM PDT by Erasmus
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To: mkj6080

Will Santa have to move now?


167 posted on 07/12/2004 8:39:13 PM PDT by Right_Handed_Writer
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To: mkj6080

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....


168 posted on 07/12/2004 8:49:55 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: MJY1288
What will cause a few riots is when North Korea is called South Korea

Not to mention the fights here on FR about the South "winning" the Civil War.

169 posted on 07/12/2004 8:50:07 PM PDT by uglybiker (I misspell ekxentric on purpose just to be different)
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To: mkj6080
From what I understand the direction of water in a flushing toilet bowl is due to the rotation of the earth on its axis so that will not change when the earth flips its magnetic field.

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.

170 posted on 07/12/2004 9:02:03 PM PDT by uglybiker (I misspell ekxentric on purpose just to be different)
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To: mkj6080

I rely on my ol' buddy down the street for guidance and direction, but he will be ok 'cause he is bipolar.


171 posted on 07/12/2004 9:02:29 PM PDT by NorseWood
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To: Doc On The Bay
There's a GREAT "Disaster Novel" called, "The HAB THEORY"

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...

172 posted on 07/12/2004 9:02:55 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (I wondered, where did it lead? Stars?)
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To: mkj6080

bttb


173 posted on 07/12/2004 9:03:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do!)
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To: uglybiker
Well, if your toilet is over 100 miles in diameter, you may get some rotation from the Coriolis effect.

For for those of us who live in the real world, you are absolutely correct.

174 posted on 07/12/2004 9:06:03 PM PDT by Hunble
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To: putupjob
It is because of Kyoto not being pushed by Bush that we now face this disaster. Had we adopted this treaty we would have avoided this. (sarcasm)

(truth?)
Anyone notice the correlation to the so called global warming, could the slow but accelerating collapse of the magnetic field be responsible for this warming effect?
175 posted on 07/12/2004 9:08:00 PM PDT by dila813
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To: snooker

flip flops, God, Kerry is going to win the election, it is fate (not)


176 posted on 07/12/2004 9:10:28 PM PDT by dila813
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To: mkj6080
and confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid."

Though obviously they have some method of dealing with it.

177 posted on 07/12/2004 9:12:59 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

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?;)))))


178 posted on 07/12/2004 9:13:18 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: buccaneer81

Senator Byrd on the Floor of the Senate, "Its not RIGHT, ITS... NOT... RIGHT...., MR. PRESIDENT, ITS........ NOOTTT....... RIGHTTTTT......!@@#$$%%


179 posted on 07/12/2004 9:14:43 PM PDT by dila813
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To: piasa
An equatorial toilet is just called "stagnant pit."

Uhh....actually, that would be Newark, N.J.

180 posted on 07/12/2004 9:15:18 PM PDT by uglybiker (I misspell ekxentric on purpose just to be different)
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