Posted on 06/17/2005 11:18:11 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
You guys want an internal combusion engine, tax cuts, ban on federal funding for stem cells, and right-wing shift in the courts, and THIS is what you reap. Total, utter, Bush-wrought devastation.
Hope you're all happy now that the North Pole is going Commie.
<tinfoil>The communists have stolen the North Pole!</tinfoil>
Hey, I thought the North Pole was where the plastic washer goes to make my globe spin smoothly.
"Hey, I thought the North Pole was where the plastic washer goes to make my globe spin smoothly."
This is no time to be going all wobbly on us, now is it?
The pole left because it's fleeing for a red state.
You're only just realising that? Because our government has done whatever necessary to hide our proud past, including in two world wars, we have completely lost our identity. I feel more American than anything myself.
This statement is arguably inaccurate, since most people assume direction to be based on magnetic north. Hence, any direction the Magnetic North might move in would be South.
If referenced to Geodedic North, it could be moving Northwesterly, getting closer to True North.
What do we suspect will happen when the poles reverse?
The Equator is not based on Magnetic North.
You're confusing the true rotational axis pole and the magnetic pole.
Not certain why that happens so often. The true north pole isn't going anywhere, hence the equator isn't going anywhere. The wanderings of the magnetic north pole have no influence on where true north is.
The magnetic poles, of course...the true poles of earth have never reversed. The magnetic poles have reversed thousands of times.
Well, basically the earth's magnetic field gets very weak; actually may have a stretch of years with multiple "poles" scattered around the world. Then it finally reverses.
Practical effect is several decades where spectacular aurora are visible all over the world, and several hundred thousands more deaths per year from cancer due to the weak magnetic field. Other than that, not a big deal. The field has reversed several times in human/hominid history and we're still around.
Well, we could all imagine it going somewhere else, couldn't we?
New location for Gitmo!
My investment in compass companies will finally pay off as everyone has to buy new ones. Cha-ching!
Siberia: "All your North Poles are belong us"
Moronic Canadians. The territorial limit from a nation's shore-line is still just 12 miles. The Exclusive Economic Zone is 200 miles. Trying to claim the North Pole by way of the 200 miles zone is truly moronic...
The North Pole belongs to no one...
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Ah, that explains he Canadian Geese. Instead of heading on up to canada, they figure the trip to Siberia is too far and just said "screw it, let's poop here in New Jersey"
>>>"I guess I'm commenting on something that I don't have a strong understanding of, because I can't wrap my mind around magnetic north being greatly at odds with true north"<<<
For something really confusing try this, Is the North Pole actually the South Pole or are Millions and Millions of Magnets and Compasses wrong? (In Magnetism opposites attract, therefore when the North end of a Magnet points North is the Magnet mislabled or is the North Pole actually the South Pole?)
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Try that on restless kids it will keep them busy for awhile.
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