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To: Question_Assumptions
On a program on PBS (NOVA) they discuss the Earth's magnetic field and how it will soon dwindle away to the point that the earth's atmosphere will no longer be protected. Maybe a thousand years or so from now.

Magnetic Storm transcript

33 posted on 02/04/2005 12:31:16 AM PST by DirtyHarryY2K (''Go though life with a Bible in one hand and a Newspaper in the other" -- Billy Graham)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K
Yes, but that program talks about a reversal, which means that it will start up again but South will be North. That's OK because that happens fairly quickly (hundreds or thousands of years), it's happened before, and catastropic atmosphere erosion takes a long time (millions of years). We'll survive reversal. Now if they said the core was shutting down, we'd be in big trouble.

The reason why I mentioned slamming Europa into Mars is not only that Mars needs more water and atmosphere but also to add the heat of the collision and the mass of Europa's core. I suspect that the reason why the Earth has such a hot core and good magnetic field lies with the Mars-sized body that slammed into the early Earth creating the Moon. While a lot of the light material flew off to form the Moon, a lot of the heavier material sank into the Earth's core, not to mention the energy released by the collision. Basically, it liquified and reformed the Earth with a heavier core and probably more water and atmosphere.

39 posted on 02/04/2005 9:49:39 AM PST by Question_Assumptions
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