Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

space.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 133 posts

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#31

Post by dsfyu404ed »

justaman wrote: post #18
isostatic wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yeah whoever made this site is bat-shit crazy. But there is tons of great information here. Anything from making soap the old fashioned way to brushed and brushless DC motors. Its really cool and wouldn't be the worst thing to have printed off and saved in a fallout shelter.

>and wouldn't be the worst thing to have printed off and saved in a fallout shelter.

>6922 Files, 14.8 GB

If things get real bad you could always burn it to keep warm.

In print form it's probably a better use of space than a bunch of stuffed animals but I think you're probably better off getting a bunch of cheap android phones and sticking it on the SD card and using most of that space for something else.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#35

Post by qrbLPHiKpiux »

mrspeaker wrote: post #2

"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!

Soon in space-time does mean hundreds of thousands of years. The masses do not appreciate this, respectfully.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#37

Post by xfitm3 »

justaman wrote: 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'm impressed by the sheer number of topics posted. Although digging deeper I'm quickly disappointed. A lot of the information is old and has gaps.

Wouldn't it be easier, and arguably smarter, to maintain a offline wikipedia archive? I can appreciate that reliance on a third party may go against the prepper mindset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#38

Post by Retra »

arethuza wrote: post #28
isostatic wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

"shift of the earth's crust with respect to the [...] magnetic poles"

This is not incorrect, even if it is a little garden-pathy.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#39

Post by elbrian »

virgilp wrote: post #26
AznHisoka wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You seem confused. No one implied that there was a third option.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

#40

Post by giancarlostoro »

xfitm3 wrote: post #37
justaman wrote: 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'm impressed by the sheer number of topics posted. Although digging deeper I'm quickly disappointed. A lot of the information is old and has gaps. Wouldn't it be easier, and arguably smarter, to maintain a offline wikipedia archive? I can appreciate that reliance on a third party may go against the prepper mindset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

I did this on some of my prepaid phones I keep around. The Moto E phones are cheap and capable of plenty of things. I forget how I got the files into the app though. Kiwix is the app in case anyone's interested. Looks like Kiwix just fetches it for you. I recommend getting an SD card with plenty of storage.
Post reply on HN