Maybe that is why they were cavemen, huh?
At least the natural disaster is an equal-opportunity killer.
Hey, living in caves with lead linings couldn’t be all that bad,, except for wifi reception. kind of like living in a concrete jungle, only cozier..
Man rails at the forces of nature, nature usually wins.
The cycle repeats.
This has a “Far Side” cartoon opportunity written all over it!
Our mgnetic field is incredibly complex. I recently saw a magnetcic photo taken of earth from satellite. Magnetically, the earth looks a lot like jupiter including a great spot.
I keep hearing this but what would make it more real would be how many degrees off the compass is from the equator? If it is not affecting the compass because it has moved only ten feet, then maybe they’re a little hysterical.
If we go back to the Stone Age then Afghanistan will be aiding us.
/johnny
Poles do reverse quite often, geologically speaking.
Maybe we’d get back to reading books.
Sounds like someone might propose new taxes and new government agencies to save the nation and the Earth from the newly discovered and possibly caused "Man-made Global Magnetic Pole Reversal". Oh, the humanity! Shame on those evil people who are doing this to Mother Earth by demanding lower electricity rates.
Run for the hills, if you can find them. We are all doomed!
It would be terrible. We would have to print new maps with new declination information. We might go a day without Kanye tweets while communication systems are recalibrated.
OR it is another excuse to increase government power in the name of protecting us.
Not the Stone Age. The laws of physics will remain unaltered and steam will still work just fine, and that’s just for starters. FReeping will be a little slower, to be sure.
Iron Age maybe.
I’m a hobby blacksmith so that idea does have a bit of appeal to me...
Paging Al Gore, Al Gore pick up the white phone.
Big Al, there is got to be a dollar to made trading Flux Futures.
Figure this thread is a good enough place to say this:
If you watch Ancient Aliens, they would have you believe that every un-explained phenomenon must have occurred with alien help. But I have another theory that may also explain the so called ‘cave man’: As a rule, every generation think they are smarter than the last. But with all the high-tech relics found on earth over the years, structures built to mathematical perfection for no apparent reason, I am a believer that something happened in human history (when they were much more advanced than we think) so cataclysmic that a good deal of our history is simply... missing.
It would make sense if you think that those who may have survived that cataclysmic event were so busy surviving, there wasn’t time to write down the details of what happened. but it could have been something like a polar magnetic shift. Could have caused the Great Flood perhaps?
Just my $.02
See also:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/GeomagneticPoles.shtml
[ducks and runs]