The 'wobble' that wipes out life on Earth every 2.5m years

The Daily Mail ^ | October 12, 2006 | JULIE WHELDON

[ko_kyi]

I wonder if during a magnetic pole transition there will be any increase in radiation at the surface. Is our atmosphere enough to protect us? I know lots of charged particles are deflected around Earth. Will we be ok but all our satellites hosed?

[Toddsterpatriot]

When molten lava forces up between the separating teutonic plates

How can you tell if the plates are Teutonic? Blond hair and blue eyes?

[RockinRight]

More use of the furnace, less use of the A/C. It works out. ;-)

[Smokin' Joe]

This global warming stuff that Gore is talking about...

Gore gave a speech in Fargo, ND, where he blamed that year's seasonal flooding in the Red River Valley on global warming...

Yeah, right, Al. We call that "spring" in these parts...

He has been beating that drum for a long time, the epitomy of "Stuck on stupid".

[jetson]

Makes you wonder why these ancient advanced cultutres built huge stone monuments. Maybe to hide in during earth changes.

[JustDoItAlways]

For all the science about wobbling orbits and changing axis tilt, I have never seen anyone show what part of the cycle(s) we are in now and what are the projections for the future.

Clearly the ice age cycles are caused in part due to changes in Earth's orbit, tilt, precession.

But where are we NOW is the question?

[Hostage]

There are three types of people:

those who don't know,

those that don't know they don't know

and those that know they don't know but get paid big bucks to act like they do know.

[jjm2111]

News flash: We are all going to die someday.

[Mike Darancette]

He said global warming and destruction of habitats could also change the patterns of the past.

So what humans do can change the tilt and orbit of the earth?

[NeoCaveman]

Another end of the world story.

[xsmommy]

take me now : )

[CarryaBigStick]

Scientists have found that on average mammal species enjoy only 2.5 million years of life before being wiped out because of the Earth's "wobble."

Shucks, and there I was expecting to live 3 million years, what a disapointment...

[NeoCaveman]

take me now : )

Please control yourself, you are on a public forum :)

[xsmommy]

as i hit send, i FIGURED you were going to take that personally! ; )

[pepsionice]

The interesting thing about this...is that this is material that a environmentalist won't touch. It has nothing to do with their "science" or agenda. Yet, it probably has more to explain about our earth...than anything else out there today.

[tired&retired]

LOL....Sorry about the typo. Yes they were Germans who caused it. It is the cause of the earthquakes in Caulifornia!

don't know why I put a "u" in for a "c"....should have been "tectonic" not "teutonic"

Thank you...

[Toddsterpatriot]

As a German, I was hoping we caused it. LOL!

[Redcloak]

Except that Spock and McCoy went back in time.

I do too have a life!!

[Mrs Ivan]

I would have replied sooner, but most of the wobbly jokes had already been used!

Not to be frivolous, this could well happen, but there's sod all I or anyone can do about it if it does.

I am left thinking of a commercial from a few years back for Basset's Jelly Babies - they, apparently, are in a wibbly wobbly world of their own, not unlike the average liberal.

This is the wobbliest thing I could find ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ2dQt_Ex-0

Is it wrong that I am now giggling?

[BJClinton]

Al Gore's mass is the primary cause of Global Wobble.