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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: boxboy28 on April 08, 2004, 01:35:45 PM
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Have you or anyone else noticed and increase in static electricity? Ask your friends most might not think of it right away but if asked they might realize it too!
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You know, this is true. I get my arse shocked just about every time I touch anything metal, even driving 3 miles inmy car from work.
interesting topic...
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Weird. Anyone notice how the number of faked letters from anguished soldiers/mothers to notable political figures has also increased. I have. Maybe there is a link to this static electricity phenomenon. I think we should be told.
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My house has had a lot of static electricity lately. I reach for a lightswittch and get a 1/2 inch long spark from my finger. Usually that only happens when the weather is cold, dry, and windy, but lately the weather has been mild. Weird that it is happenening to others, too.
ra
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Originally posted by Dowding
Weird. Anyone notice how the number of faked letters from anguished soldiers/mothers to notable political figures has also increased. I have. Maybe there is a link to this static electricity phenomenon. I think we should be told.
You are sooo sooooo gay! cant you be real for once?
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I'm sorry, you see the mistake I made was assuming you were having a bit of a joke. If I had realised you were serious I probably would have ripped the piss out of you a little more. Here goes...
So 'real' is asking your friends if they've noticed an increase in static electricity? Your life must be one endless rollercoaster ride.
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If I scuff my feet on the carpet I can stun small animals.
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Originally posted by GScholz
If the magnetic poles switch we're screwed.
There is evidence that may indicate it's happening. Have to agree with ya about the screwed part.
We have a contigency to drill into the core of the earth and set things right though. Or was that a recent B Sci-Fi movie? ;)
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The reason for the increase in static electrisity is the use of more and more synthetic matrial in clothing.
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Awww Darn, ya ruined it for me.
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Originally posted by GScholz
(That movie sucked ...)
Was there ever any doubt that it wouldn't? And you went to see it anyhow didn't ya? Me too. :D
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I still can't throw a Fireball more than ten feet. There's nothing new about that...
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Originally posted by boxboy28
Have you or anyone else noticed and increase in static electricity? Ask your friends most might not think of it right away but if asked they might realize it too!
Not since I started wearing my tinfoil hat
Daniel
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Dont worry everyone, i'll put my robe and wizard hat....
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I pose a serious question and get flamed! boy what new around here with some of you A holes I.E. (Dowding the butt pirate!)
Dowding you've been igonred and the to i say "you've been served!"
to start here is just one source of info on the magnetic field stuff!
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994865
the articale reads..............
The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service
Quick flip of Earth's magnetic field revealed
18:00 07 April 04
NewScientist.com news service
The Earth's magnetic field takes an average of only 7000 years to reverse its polarity, but the switch happens much more quickly near the equator, according to the most comprehensive study yet of the last four reversals.
"It's important to get an idea of how fast or slow this process is because it ends up controlling our idea of how the field is generated in the first place," says study author Bradford Clement, an earth scientist at Florida International University in Miami, US.
Previous studies have reported a bewildering range of transition times, from a few thousand to nearly 30,000 years. So Clement scoured the published data on the most recent reversals to set the record straight.
He used data from 30 cores drilled from the beds of lakes or seas, whose minerals clearly recorded the magnetic field as sediments in the water slowly solidified into rock. The cores were taken from latitudes ranging from 46 degrees south to 60 degrees north and from a wide range of longitudes.
Clement found that the duration of the transitions varied with latitude, from 2000 years near the equator to 11,000 years nearer the poles. This result concurs with a much smaller study he conducted 20 years ago using just 10 cores.
"Now the data set looks more robust overall, and the variation with latitude helps explain why people were reporting different durations," Clement told New Scientist.
Random timing
Studies of ocean sediments and lava flows show the Earth has undergone several hundred field reversals, with the most recent confirmed flip occurring about 780,000 years ago. But their timing appears random and physicists do not understand what causes them.
The Earth's magnetic field is generated by the flow of liquid iron, an electrical conductor, in the Earth's outer core, between 3000 and 5000 kilometres beneath the surface. It is therefore likely that some change in the flow causes the reversals.
But the many models put forward to explain the phenomenon are "a long way from being realistic", says Clement. "The theory gets very complicated very quickly, and there are so many models it's hard to figure out what's what."
Ronald Merrill, a geophysicist at the University of Washington, in Seattle, US, agrees: "We can't do the theory right, so we're trying to find more data to find out the character of the reversals."
Shrinking magnet
Merrill says better knowledge of the reversals will help constrain the many models. And it may even shed light on some evidence published in 2002 suggesting that the Earth is now in the first stages of a polarity flip.
In the simplest models of reversals, the Earth's magnetic field behaves like a bar magnet that points roughly along the planet's axis of rotation. It shrinks in strength over time, growing up again in the opposite direction.
Clement's result "tells us the magnetic field is becoming more complex during a reversal," says Merrill. This could occur if secondary components of the magnetic field - perhaps caused by eddies of molten iron at shallower depths - remain constant as the primary field - caused by iron flowing deep in the outer core - shrinks to nothing.
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Think of all those compasses thrown away!
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shame on you boxboy, i posted a real reason :)
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i thought the thread would be about boxboy stroking his pus.. er cat :)
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Think of all those compasses thrown away!
Actually, YOUR compass might actually be correct for once! ;)
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Originally posted by Nilsen10
shame on you boxboy, i posted a real reason :)
LOL i know you did and that you...................
now that 2 tooth limey is the problem here!
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Originally posted by boxboy28
Have you or anyone else noticed and increase in static electricity? Ask your friends most might not think of it right away but if asked they might realize it too!
the less humidity, the more static electricity.
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Sitting here in work wearing and ESD safe coat and shoes while sitting on an ESD safe chair at an ESD safe table on an ESD safe floor being cooled by a fan blowing ionized air. No I can't say I've noticed much static electric lately. :eek:
But outside of here I have noticed a bit. I think it's spring and the drying air that brings it on. Particularly with cars. I think it's just the drying spring air. Ah roll on summer.
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Originally posted by AKIron
Or was that a recent B Sci-Fi movie? ;)
Uhm... Starship Troopers was a B Sci-Fi movie, and THAT was still ten fold better than "The Core". I don't think "The Core" even qualifies for a C rating, standing for Crap.
-SW
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Actually, YOUR compass might actually be correct for once! ;)
LOL UR SOOOO KEWL RIP!!111one
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
If I scuff my feet on the carpet I can stun small animals.
ROFL:D
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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
Uhm... Starship Troopers was a B Sci-Fi movie, and THAT was still ten fold better than "The Core". I don't think "The Core" even qualifies for a C rating, standing for Crap.
-SW
Can't argue with ya on "The Core" but Starship Troopers was great. Not hardcore Sci-Fi but definitely an "A" movie.
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As with most disaster movies, "The Core" was promising for the first 5 minutes. After that, it all went downhill real fast.
Daniel
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I pose a serious question and get flamed! boy what new around here with some of you A holes I.E. (Dowding the butt pirate!)
Dowding you've been igonred and the to i say "you've been served!"
Que?
I didn't realise English was your third language. Well done for trying!
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Hey! I am offended. English IS my 3rd language
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And it is better than this guy's English and he's a 'native' speaker. I'll ammend my comment to fourth language. ;)
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
If I scuff my feet on the carpet I can stun small animals.
I think my wife is just trying to kill me
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I used to get shocked everytime i got out of my car....untill i got new tires. Its funny the elements required for static to be created. I worked in a lab once were we had to be almost 100% ESD free. we wore special shmocks shoe/wrist straps and the place even had a specail floor that costs somewere around a grand a foot.
I'm not sure i've noticed an increase but it is true that synthetics in clothing cause more. It's also dependent on the relative humidity and temp. as well.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Actually, YOUR compass might actually be correct for once! ;)
Well mine points toward Washington.. I hear there's a big bellybutton loadstone there.
:p
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
As with most disaster movies, "The Core" was promising for the first 5 minutes. After that, it all went downhill real fast.
In my own defense, I was extremely bored and walking around a big outdoor mall when I decided it was the last option for the evening. I didn't totally lose it until she whipped out the E6B and recomputed the new "magnetic" heading. After that I just had to stay and see how deep in BS they could dig themselves. No pun intended.