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Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by imglorp »

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.

I've always thought it might be cool to package up a bunch of literature on a stack of SD cards and package them with a low power e-ink reader and a solar panel to charge it, then market as a "reboot civilization" kit.

The hardest part is actually finding a generic e-ink reader with an sd card slot that doesn't cost $500. It shouldn't need to run full android, just show a PDF or TXT, that's all it needs to do.

An offline wikipedia dump, emergency medical manual and PDR, survival manuals, etc etc like this site might go well.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by adrianN »

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.

The site recommends building domes out of Sulphur. That doesn't seem like very good advice. As a non-expert in survival, I'd be wary of trusting anything written by a person with a creative interpretation of what's real and what isn't. You never know what else they're having unconventional opinions of.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

bluGill wrote: post #29
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Damn their short sightedness!

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by swamp40 »

Renaud wrote: post #24
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.

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

Lieder described Planet X as roughly four times the size of the Earth, and said that its closest approach would occur on May 27, 2003, resulting in the Earth's rotation ceasing for exactly 5.9 terrestrial days. This would be followed by the Earth's pole destabilising in a pole shift (a physical pole shift, with the Earth's pole physically moving, rather than a geomagnetic reversal) caused by magnetic attraction between the Earth's core and the magnetism of the passing planet.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by dugluak »

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!

They don't understand the implications. There are many people who take this seriously and dig holes underground, spend thousands of dollars to prepare themselves for the D day ....

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by kybernetikos »

imglorp wrote: post #41
justaman wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've always thought it might be cool to package up a bunch of literature on a stack of SD cards and package them with a low power e-ink reader and a solar panel to charge it, then market as a "reboot civilization" kit. The hardest part is actually finding a generic e-ink reader with an sd card slot that doesn't cost $500. It shouldn't need to run full android, just show a PDF or TXT, that's all it needs to do. An off…

http://thewikireader.com/ update: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-distribute-wikireade...

I don't have one - my phone contains an offline wikipedia dump (including images), offline maps of the world including geological maps, medical manual, and my book collection, including things like http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/.

I've got a vague plan to download the primitive technology youtube videos too.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by balabaster »

qrbLPHiKpiux wrote: post #35
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.

Not even in space time. If you consider the age of this planet, hundreds of thousands of years is still a tiny slice of time - especially given that even if you accommodate the possibility that humans have been around possibly only for a few hundred thousand years, in the grand scheme of the 4.53 billion years of existence of earth if reports are considered accurate, it's a blip on the radar, we barely even existed.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by darkpuma »

dugluak wrote: post #45
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!

They don't understand the implications. There are many people who take this seriously and dig holes underground, spend thousands of dollars to prepare themselves for the D day ....

I'm stockpiling orgonite right now to protect my family. When the magnetic poles flip that stuff is going to be worth it's weight in gold!
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