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Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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post #4

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

So what I'm hearing is the press should reframe their questions to get the results they intend.

"Will world hunger continue into next year?"

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#22
post #12

"While any magnetic-field flip would still be thousands of years away...". Sneaky sentence right at the end. Sure the last one happened 700,000 years ago, so it is "soon", the but article made it sound like it was happening tomorrow!

Discussing an unstable mountainous area with a geologist once, he made it sound like collapse was imminent, so I asked him when to expect it. "Oh, any day, now - definitely in the next 50,000 years or so..."

And you are just telling me now?

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#23
post #14

Interesting (and possibly related) article about the four yugas in hindu mythology. https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/science-behind-hindu-s-four...

It says {Forbidden}. Any alternative location?

Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20160530234212/https://www.speak...

Original link worked for me, fwiw.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#24
post #5

I wanted to share one of my favorite sites: https://www.pssurvival.com/ Pole shifts are popular among "preppers" which in my opinion tend to be quite eccentric. However this website is full of great information that we often take for granted.

That's certainly eccentric to say the least... a mix of some well thought out and valid information completely spoiled by pseudo-science nonsense like references to Planet X and Nibiru[1]...

  [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#25

Is it true that when the magnetic field flips suddenly, plane autopilot systems can become confused and crash out of the skies, killing millions en mass?

I'd wager that magnetic compasses have faults from time to time and generally don't cause planes to drop out of the sky.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#26

"While any magnetic-field flip would still be thousands of years away...". Sneaky sentence right at the end. Sure the last one happened 700,000 years ago, so it is "soon", the but article made it sound like it was happening tomorrow!

It's like those articles that hedge their outrageous predictions. "Facebook is probably going to be supplanted in 5 years, but then again they own Instagram and WhatsApp, so they might be fine". What is it going to be, Nostradamus?!

It's either going to be supplanted, or it won't be. There is no third option. You're welcome.

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#28
post #5

I wanted to share one of my favorite sites: https://www.pssurvival.com/ Pole shifts are popular among "preppers" which in my opinion tend to be quite eccentric. However this website is full of great information that we often take for granted.

I have no idea what that site is, but this is the introduction: This is a shift of the earth's crust with respect to the earth's core generated north and south magnetic poles. Earth's magnetic poles are created by the flow of ions in the earth's core and is somewhat closely aligned to be parallel to the axis of rotation. We expect about 90 degree shift of the crust as planet-X passes earth's orbit on its way through…

"shift of the earth's crust"

So the movie 2012 was based on existing daft ideas or did they get those ideas from the movie?

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#29
post #4

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

So what I'm hearing is the press should reframe their questions to get the results they intend. "Will world hunger continue into next year?"

That is not a result they want though. World hunger it good for a few stories every year, less people would buy papers without world hunger. (war is better than world hunger for selling papers but they need something else once in a while or people start to recognize patterns and quit buying papers)
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