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NYT: COLLAPSE OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD ACCELERATES (Via Drudge)
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Posted on 07/12/2004 4:05:31 PM PDT by mkj6080
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To: Hunble
Only Michael Moore would need a commode that wide.
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:16:37 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I misspell ekxentric on purpose just to be different)
To: mkj6080
Art Bell and George SNoree with have multiple orgasms over this... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:20:14 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(Keep whores out of the Whitehouse! Don't elect a couple of "Johns"!!!)
To: 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.
I've been looking all through my Atlas but I can't seem to locate Earnest, where this appears to have started.
To: MJY1288
To: mkj6080; PeoplesRep_of_LA; NormsRevenge; dalereed
"confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid"Actually... It sounds more like the Repellican Party leadership in CA!!!
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:24:11 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(Keep whores out of the Whitehouse! Don't elect a couple of "Johns"!!!)
To: mkj6080
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:28:23 PM PDT
by
I'm ALL Right!
("We are going to take things away from you for the common good." translated = "I AM A COMMUNIST")
To: SierraWasp
Even if they change their migratory habits it could turn out to be a public disaster!
The environazis will be looking for all their furry and feathered friends in all the wrong places and scream for every one of them to be put on the endangered list when they can't find them.
Just like kangaroo rats, which are nocturnal, they look all over for them durring the day and can't find any when their millions of the nasty little rats!
To: NorseWood
...but I can't seem to locate Earnest, where this appears to have started. ![](http://www.jimvarney.net/smilinernie.gif)
Ah didn't start nuthin'!! Musta been Vern!
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:33:33 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I misspell ekxentric on purpose just to be different)
To: mkj6080
I think you might not have northern lights anywhere till it settles down. The reason is that the northern lights are caused by charged particles. These charged particles are "focused" at the north pole (and south) by the magnetic field. So if the field decays, the regular flux of particles that might hit any given area is probably too small to give any light effect.
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:33:55 PM PDT
by
djf
To: LenS
Geographic North would be the same. Magnetic North would change to South but the process goes back and forth many times over a long period in terms of human lives. The field also reverses in some parts before other parts of the world. Magnetic navigation would be very tricky for a long time. But that's where GPS satellites can take up the slack.
Don't forget there is also navigation by the stars and radio navigation too. I once read a 1943 book on aeronautical navigation on how planes can use longwave beacons for navigation and in a pinch even AM radio stations. I think that's how the Japanese homed in on Pearl Harbor, the lead plane set the radio direction finder on the local AM station in Honolulu and the rest was history.
I know today we also have VOR station for aeronautical navigation and I think one of the LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) either A or C is still in use too for shipping. I have to check on that one, I think A was phased out. I remember as a kid picking them up just above the AM band around 1900 kc or so. The British has a similar system called Decca that was in use during World War II. You might see a return to those system if the magnetic field goes haywire.
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:34:45 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("Laws are the spider webs through which the big bugs fly past and the little ones get caught.")
To: djf
That would be correct. The flux would be defocused.
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:36:28 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: uglybiker
I guess Earnest is bipolar too!
To: mkj6080; uglybiker
.ay llet I DEMOOD ,demood er'eW
Just practicing.;-)
193
posted on
07/12/2004 9:42:51 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: mkj6080
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:48:28 PM PDT
by
Grim
Comment #195 Removed by Moderator
To: mkj6080
"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."
Oh, no! It's Y2K all over again! Best start hoarding spam again!
To: mkj6080
This is based on very sound science. I'm glad there are at least a few serious posts about this article. I'm not sure who are worse -- the environmental radicals who use junk science to "prove" that earth would be a paradise if only mankind were extinct, or the flat earthers who think that all science is junk science and a conspiracy against the purity of our bodily fluids. It will be an interesting problem as this will be the first time the magnetic field shifted when humans had technology, as someone here noted. I'm more concerned with what the increased radiation will do to our electronics than I am concerned with what the increased radiation will do for cancer -- am I a geek or what?
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:54:27 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(Lurking since 1997!)
To: snooker
;So, even the poles are joining the flip-flops.
Yup they are the foreigners for Kerry perhaps ??????
ba-da-boommm........
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:55:19 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: Republicus2001
do you have to put in batteries backwards?
Which way will toilets flush??!!
To: Jim Robinson
Start hording? I still got my Y2K Tuna!
Probably taste like dolphin by now!
:-)
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posted on
07/12/2004 9:57:56 PM PDT
by
djf
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