Author Topic: The end is near!!!! (Read 515 times)

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2003, 01:45:39 PM »

For some odd reason, any time near disaster hits... the first thing stores always run out of is TP....

I dunno about you, but in the time of a crisis I can't forsee myself eating or drinking TP... but I could find a reasonable way to wipe my ass...
-SW

AKIron · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2003, 01:47:16 PM »

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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
I'd say about 90% of what this flip will cause is unknown... only guesstimations...

When it happens (and apparently we're coming up on it), large amounts of radiation may cause us to go the way of the dinosaurs...

We're either screwed, or won't be much affected by this.
-SW

Seems it would depend on the direction the poles point when they flip as to how significant the loss of protection from gamma rays (at least from our sun) becomes. If they point along our path around the sun rather than at the sun then we still have a magnetic field protecting us.

or do you think the new poles will be fixed geographically and rotate 360 daily?

Dune · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2003, 01:51:13 PM »

Follow me to freedom!!!

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2003, 01:58:21 PM »

I dunno really Iron... the only thing I can imagine is that the current magnetic fields simply won't exist while the poles move... or will be severly altered...

You know how it is right now...

When the two poles reverse... dunno how they do it... I'd assume that the field would significantly change or shrink in size while the poles change position.

The article mentions deadspots in the Earth that have started to occur recently and are getting bigger... this is saying to me that the poles aren't staying perfectly opposite one another, and may be changing position in such a way that it's not a simple flip, but instead are maybe moving through each other? (I dunno if that's even possible... but this isn't necessarily two solid magnetic objects acting against each other either.. but is a single fluid
source)

EDIT: Here's another article from Nov 10, 2002: http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,837058,00.html

EDIT #2: This is a pretty good read: http://www.psc.edu/science/Glatzmaier/glatzmaier.html

EDIT #3: Seems most sources agree that while the magnetic field is getting weaker, the reverse/flip won't happen for another thousand years or more...
-SW