Posted on 07/12/2009 8:53:22 PM PDT by TaraP
Stansted Airport in Essex has renamed its 3,000m (9,750ft) runway because the position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole has moved. The runway was known by pilots and air traffic controllers as 23/05 because of its location and compass heading. The magnetic North Pole drifts naturally, and every 50 years its position alters significantly. Managers at Stansted decided they must call the runway 22/04 to reflect the new position and bearing. Trevor Waldock, head of airside operations, said: "We've had to make this change due to the Magnetic North Pole slowly drifting on the Earth's surface but our runway remains in a fixed position. "It'll roughly be another 56 years before we have to consider changing it again. "Redesignating the runway at a busy international airport, such as Stansted, presents a number of complex challenges, so we've had a programme of works specially organised to minimise any disruption to normal operations." The project, which took place at night, was completed on 5 July and included the replacement of all airfield signage and the repainting of the huge numbers at each end of the runway. The magnetic North Pole will continue to drift until it eventually switches with the magnetic South Pole. The Earth last went through this an estimated 780,000 years ago. With time, due to the Magnetic North Pole moving south, the Northern Lights will be more regularly visible in the UK.
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More irreversible climate change, when will humanity leave the planet in peace.
Assuming you refer to the "waters above the firmament", these are not OF the heavens, but ABOVE the heavens, conceived of as a dome, or "vault".
These conceptions are no longer possible for anyone, including you, to seriously entertain as a physical reality.
Comfortably ensconced within my corner of this grand, collective illusion all seems well in my world.
I thought runways were based on true north, not magnetic north? All that is changing is the magnetic declination, once that is corrected for, there should be no problem.
Or, I am confused......
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There are three kinds of north: celestial north (axis of rotation, points at our current pole star, Polaris), magnetic north, and “map” north as determined by converging lines of longitude.
In aviation, its true north and mag north, true north being the actual location of the north pole. Compasses are corrected for mag dec to get true north so there should be no problem if the mag dec is changed in accordance with the mag pole shift. Something just doesn’t seem right here.
We still have not still protected ourselves from Solar EMP from a major storm on the Sun
So, it's just my imagination that the atmosphere constantly retains a certain amount of H2O? And that the ability to retain it could be lost due to changes in the magnetic field and exposure to effects from the sun?
And just what could we do? It is also likely the EMP would be accompanied by other energies in the EM spectrum which would fry us to a crisp anyway.
What can we do? Prepare for a society that will be thrown back to the stone age.
To the first, no. To the second, yes.
But how could any of this relate to "the waters above the firmament" ?
This is supposed to cause major havoc with all of our electronics.
A heads up
That looks chaotic
I’m not a pilot, but the magnetic declination is different for every place on earth to find True North. However, your compass ALWAYS points to magnetic north no matter where you are. It would seem to me that pilots would have to refer to magnetic north, or they would be constantly having to correct for true north.
And so perhaps the runways are named with a reference to magnetic north. If they were named with reference to true north - that would never change. On an old survey map, true north is still the same true north. You would need to look up the mag. declination to figure out how to set your compass, but the true north line on the map is ALWAYS true north.
The pole is actually shifting as we speak albeit to such a minor degree that we would never notice during our lifetimes.The North Magnetic Pole is slowly drifting across the Canadian Arctic.But it happens because we have the rocks to prove that has happened.Some speculate that a greatly diminished magnetic field during a reversal period will expose the surface of the earth to a substantial and potentially damaging increase in cosmic radiation.
I will check it out
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