You're not paying attention!
Posted on 07/12/2009 8:53:22 PM PDT by TaraP
Stansted Airport in Essex has renamed its 3,000m (9,750ft) runway because the position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole has moved. The runway was known by pilots and air traffic controllers as 23/05 because of its location and compass heading. The magnetic North Pole drifts naturally, and every 50 years its position alters significantly. Managers at Stansted decided they must call the runway 22/04 to reflect the new position and bearing. Trevor Waldock, head of airside operations, said: "We've had to make this change due to the Magnetic North Pole slowly drifting on the Earth's surface but our runway remains in a fixed position. "It'll roughly be another 56 years before we have to consider changing it again. "Redesignating the runway at a busy international airport, such as Stansted, presents a number of complex challenges, so we've had a programme of works specially organised to minimise any disruption to normal operations." The project, which took place at night, was completed on 5 July and included the replacement of all airfield signage and the repainting of the huge numbers at each end of the runway. The magnetic North Pole will continue to drift until it eventually switches with the magnetic South Pole. The Earth last went through this an estimated 780,000 years ago. With time, due to the Magnetic North Pole moving south, the Northern Lights will be more regularly visible in the UK.
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You're not paying attention!
It’s making a beeline for true north. What does it know?
On a related note, Mr. Waldock points out “our runway remains in a fixed position.” I’m glad he pointed that out. I was fearful that UK “shovel ready” jobs dug up a perfectly good runway and repaved it with a one degree correction. (Think I should pass that idea to Obama?)
Exactly. Pilots adjust their compasses to correct for mag dec as they travel long distances. They also have to adjust their altimeter to correct for changing atomospheric pressure.
Ping!
Do you feel the poles moving?
Do you feel the poles moving? I also did mention in post number#38 that he North Magnetic Pole is slowly drifting across the Canadian Arctic
You are not paying attention.
You are not paying attention.
Obama will have achieved that way before the pole flips.
(depends on what you mean by firmament)
The relationship is this: Could a change in the magnetosphere influence in a drastic way the ability of the atmosphere to retain water?
Additionally, could it vary the amount of water that Earth gains from space.
I was rereading the posts, to try and be sure what we were debating, and found you had already defined ‘firmament’.
And it brought me to the core of the debate.
YOUR COMMENT: These conceptions are no longer possible for anyone, including you, to seriously entertain as a physical reality.
I don’t think the descriptions in Genesis are technical goldmines of knowledge on something that could have happened in one year, or one billion years. But I do think that the concept that massive amounts of water could condense upon the Earth from outside the atmosphere is very possible.
So, yes, I do entertain it as a possible physical reality.
We have a winnah!
The proper term is Astronomic North, but you are correct.
I once had a sister in law that was asstronomical!!!
LOL.
A huge solar flare superstorm can severly damage the power grid, knock off all satellite communication and basically that has a computer chip.Television,GPS will also be afftected.The men orbiting in the ISS can be exposed to lethal amounts of gamma radiation.September 1859 is a key day in the study of Solar Superstorms.Within hours, telegraph wires in both the United States and Europe spontaneously shorted out, causing numerous fires, while the Northern Lights, solar-induced phenomena more closely associated with regions near Earth’s North Pole, were documented as far south as Rome, Havana and Hawaii, with similar effects at the South Pole.The nice thing is we can predict solar flares but cannot predict Gamma Ray Burst which is equally lethal to life on the planet.
At the shopping mall?
Yeah, there was some skinny dude there pickin an singin, “I don’t waner you can haver, she’s too fat fer me...” Haaaaaa Ha Ha Ha!!!
Conjurs up visions of tubas, and accordions....
Oompah oompah oompah...
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