For those with compasses
09-17-2003, 05:52 AM
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For those with compasses
Get ready to reset them. The poles may be going to flip
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2889127.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2889127.stm
Is the Earth preparing to flip?
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
Finding the shifting magnetic pole
It is not just the plot for a far-fetched science-fiction disaster movie. Something unexplained really is happening to the Earth'* magnetic field.
In recent years, the field has been behaving in ways not previously seen in the admittedly short time it has been monitored.
Some researchers think it may presage a geomagnetic reversal when the north and south magnetic poles flip.
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
Finding the shifting magnetic pole
It is not just the plot for a far-fetched science-fiction disaster movie. Something unexplained really is happening to the Earth'* magnetic field.
In recent years, the field has been behaving in ways not previously seen in the admittedly short time it has been monitored.
Some researchers think it may presage a geomagnetic reversal when the north and south magnetic poles flip.
09-17-2003, 03:00 PM
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I wonder if this happens if our water in the northern hemisphere will drain counter clockwise like it doesn currently in the southern hemisphere and whether theirs will drain clockwise...always been facinated by this...
09-17-2003, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Rogue
I wonder if this happens if our water in the northern hemisphere will drain counter clockwise like it doesn currently in the southern hemisphere and whether theirs will drain clockwise...always been facinated by this...
09-17-2003, 03:48 PM
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It may affect migration patterns and homing pigeons...lol..I dunno... 
Day to day life as we see it in our own little microcosm will remain unaffected :P
Day to day life as we see it in our own little microcosm will remain unaffected :P
09-18-2003, 09:28 AM
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I know just the poles will flip. But eventually the pole will have to cross the equator, right?The gavitatioal pull will change also right( magnetic field reversing & all) ?
Maybe or am I off my rocker????
Maybe or am I off my rocker????
09-18-2003, 11:14 AM
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Gravitational pull will still be towards the center of the earth. Navigation will be way off, that'* for sure. Have to start using the stars again. 
