Posted on 11/25/2013 10:59:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
The European Space Agencys Swarm constellation flew into space on Friday (Nov. 22) on a quest to understand more about the Earths magnetic field.
Around the same time, ESA put out a few videos explaining why the magnetic field is important. This one explains that the magnetic field has weakened over the past few years, while the north pole has shifted direction. In fact, a whole pole reversal is possible, the narrator says. It happened last 780,000 years ago at the very beginning of human history. But cavemen didnt have mobile phone networks, GPS networks or power supplies.
If a reversal did happen, it could affect those systems, the video adds, asking Will we soon find ourselves back in the stone age?
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
There was an antediluvian civilization, much of which has been lost to history.
And surveyors have declination tables to precisly adjust past surveys for the wandering poles.
...the magnetic field has weakened over the past few years, while the north pole has shifted direction. In fact, a whole pole reversal is possible, the narrator says.
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Even more obscure was the Unclediluvian civilization. ;’)
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