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Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by kaybe »

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 think a collection of the right youtube videos could be far more useful if you actually tried to do anything. Wikipedia can be quite theoretical.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by magduf »

bluGill wrote: post #78
magduf wrote: post #58

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Nukes and solar flares can be protected against: just seal your electronics in a good faraday cage. Putting them in an underground bunker in a lead-lined room should do it. Your paper books won't last as long: today's paper is acidic and falls apart within a century.

You can buy acid free archival paper that will last 500 years with careful storage. It costs ~3-5x as much, but is available.

You can, but you're probably not going to find whatever books the OP was referring to printed on that paper. You'll have to scan them and print them on that paper yourself (assuming that laser toner will also last as long; probably so, given it's basically melted plastic, but I'm not sure).

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by ben_w »

iamthepieman wrote: post #62
darkpuma wrote: post #50

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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!

That was a rabbit hole i did not need to spend the last 30 minutes on. For those who don't have the time like I didn't Organite is a substance made of resin metals and quartz that balances and harmonizes Bio-energy (known as orgone). Orgone is analogous to chi or prana and is a type of bio-energy that reverses the effect of entropy[0] It seems to be a mix of crystal healing and EMF grounding (also known as earthing)…

You just reminded me that my mum was big on homeopathy and regularly gave me homeopathic sand as a kid: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/fda/fdaDrugXsl.cfm?set...

She also liked Bach flower remedies, and took one in particular for her memory…

She now has severe Alzheimer’s and, conversationally speaking, is no better than a Markov chain with a ~1000 symbol vocabulary.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

adrianN wrote: post #90
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #75

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How fast are the flips. I've known about this effect for maybe a couple of decades, but never heard any theories on how fast the flip is. If the flip is really slow, then that seems to lead to less human catastrophe, but more difficult perhaps for other species? edit: s/far/fast

The problem with the flips is that they go hand-in-hand with a dramatic weakening of the magnetic field until the new orientation is established. During that time solar storms are not deflected as well and vulnerable electronics will be fried.

If my new tv gets fried during the apocalypse I'm going to be pissed.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by bluGill »

magduf wrote: post #112
bluGill wrote: post #78

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You can buy acid free archival paper that will last 500 years with careful storage. It costs ~3-5x as much, but is available.

You can, but you're probably not going to find whatever books the OP was referring to printed on that paper. You'll have to scan them and print them on that paper yourself (assuming that laser toner will also last as long; probably so, given it's basically melted plastic, but I'm not sure).

Most of the discussion was around things like Wikipedia and other internet knowledge which you would have to print anyway. For books you would buy, or course what the publisher will agree to sell you is a limit - and you are probably not big enough to get an acid-free version printed.

Though if civilization collapsed bad enough to need this I think most of the useful information I'd want saved was published in the 1800s and so out of copyright. We wouldn't be able to use the knowledge of how to make a transistor until long after even acid free paper was useless.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by elihu »

kybernetikos wrote: post #110
isostatic wrote: post #52

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So once "the end" comes, you'll be set for a good 4 hours before your phone runs out of battery?

My phone lasts a good 20 hours! Also, I do have a solar cell, but yeah, modern phones aren't really designed for post apocalyptic conditions surprisingly. Fortunately, all that is also useful in tunnels, underground bars, the countryside and when travelling abroad.

For what it's worth, I have an old cheap LG phone that I once accidentally sent through the laundry and it was fine.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by njarboe »

Pharmakon wrote: post #102
njarboe wrote: post #95

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Diamond anvil tech is just advancing into the realm where the pressure of the surface of the outer core can be held for long enough for chemical reactions to reach equilibrium. That is, to be highly useful to see what might be happening in the core. Heating up to high temperatures at the same time is an added difficulty and can only be done for a shorter time periods. I'm not an expert on diamond anvils, but follow t…

Thanks for the detailed answer. Can you recommend any good publications, books or blogs that relate to this subject?

I don't know your background, so it is hard to know what to recommend. If you have a PhD in a subject area then in theory you should have enough general knowledge to be able to effectively read a recent review article explaining the state of the art in some sub-discipline. I can then use the references in that paper to read about the concepts and ideas I am not familiar with and I think are important to understand.

Using google scholar (not regular google), I found this recent article "Contributed Review: Culet diameter and the achievable pressure of a diamond anvil cell: Implications for the upper pressure limit of a diamond anvil cell" https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049720

I would read this to update my ideas about what diamond anvil cells can do right now.

Then, if I wanted to actually use one or find out if I should use one, I would talk with one of the authors of a paper referenced in the review paper that I thought was good and dealt with the particular reason I wanted to use one.

That was a bit long winded. Hope it helped.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by starlig-ht »

balabaster wrote: post #49
qrbLPHiKpiux wrote: post #35

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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.

And we have only gained the knowledge of this as a species within the last hundred years.

Re: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

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Post by elihu »

jcranmer wrote: post #93
doctorRetro wrote: post #91

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I stopped reading at "as planet-X passes earth's orbit".

I skipped ahead to figure out when they claimed it was going to happen. The document is dated 2013. The summary of the results basically says "calculate it yourself, it's not our fault if it's wrong, but 2014 and 2017 look like the best dates." I wonder why doomsayers keep predicting the end of the world to be in the imminent future? It makes it way too easy to be proven wrong.

I once had an idea for an erratically-scheduled holiday called "arbitrary apocalypse day". The day after each AAD if the world hasn't ended, you'd roll a D-10 3 times to get a number of days between 0 and 999, and that's the new predicted apocalypse date. You'd select a cause at random (i.e. nanobots, aliens, meteor, supervolcano, nuclear war, pandemic, etc...) and tell everyone that doom is nigh.

In the end, I didn't promote it heavily and forgot to celebrate on the appointed day (or choose the next date). Maybe I should start it back up again.

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