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Earth’s magnetic poles won’t flip any time soon
pulseheadlines.com ^ | By Maria Jose Inojosa

Posted on 11/27/2015 7:34:31 PM PST by BenLurkin

Why should be we worried about a polarity flip?

The magnetic field protects us from harmful solar radiations and cosmic rays. If these start fading away, it may affect every living creature on Earth. An increase in radiation exposure may not only lead to serious health outcomes, but also some genetic disorders could occur. Some biologists even fear that direct exposure to harmful solar radiations may result in mass extinctions.

Not only could some severe health consequence fallow the weakening of magnetic field. In a less concerning outcome, but still very worrisome it could lead to a severe disturbance in satellites, power grids, mobile networks and technology.

Why should be stop worrying about it?

The findings show that even though the magnetic field is dropping fast, the current field intensity has a long way to fall before reaching an unstable level that would lead to a setback. This means that the field is still unusually strong. The researchers found that the time-averaged geomagnetic field intensity over the past 5 million years is about 60% of the field’s intensity today.

(Excerpt) Read more at pulseheadlines.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; geomagneticreversal; gps; magneticfield; magneticpole; magnetism; poleshift; science
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1 posted on 11/27/2015 7:34:31 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

George Norry and Art Bell will be so disappointed.


2 posted on 11/27/2015 7:36:03 PM PST by BigEdLB (If something happens because of the Iran Agreement all of DC will have blood on their hands)
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To: BigEdLB
George Norry and Art Bell will be so disappointed.

Dimwits.

I'm still waiting for the Y2K catastrophe.


3 posted on 11/27/2015 7:39:45 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: BenLurkin

The day that the earth’s magnetic poles flip will be the day that 0bama is impeached and removed from office.


4 posted on 11/27/2015 7:40:28 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: BenLurkin

MORE PROOF of Global Warming!


5 posted on 11/27/2015 7:40:42 PM PST by JJ_Folderol (Just my opinion and only worth what you paid for it.)
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To: BenLurkin

When it does it will happen because of globull warming.


6 posted on 11/27/2015 7:40:55 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: BenLurkin

Dang it! It figures, I just took delivery on that shipment of compasses with the North and South reversed, I was gonna make a killin, a killin I tell ya!


7 posted on 11/27/2015 7:52:22 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: BenLurkin

It doesn’t go away, it simply changes polarity.

It’s happened many, many times in the past.


8 posted on 11/27/2015 7:59:30 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: Mastador1
Dang it! It figures, I just took delivery on that shipment of compasses with the North and South reversed, I was gonna make a killin, a killin I tell ya!

Just sell them to Neo-Confederates as a compass which points in the right direction: South.

9 posted on 11/27/2015 8:00:30 PM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: Vermont Lt

I read something awhile ago that claimed the poles reversed about every 60,000 years. Patches of northern polarity appear more frequently in the Southern Hemisphere ( and vice versa) until the poles flip.


10 posted on 11/27/2015 8:08:39 PM PST by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: BenLurkin

All we have to do is put a tax on it and the problem will go away.


11 posted on 11/27/2015 8:11:00 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: BenLurkin

12 posted on 11/27/2015 8:24:14 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: BenLurkin

Whew! I was worried about that.


13 posted on 11/27/2015 8:48:08 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: BigEdLB

Crap what am I going to do with my C Crane pole shift survival kit


14 posted on 11/27/2015 8:55:54 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: BenLurkin

In order to stop the pole flip, we need to build giant electro-magnets and mount them on extremely tall towers at evenly spaced out locations on the planet’s surface.

Sure it will involve a lot of money, but isn’t your life, the lives of your children , worth it ?

I am opening a fund for magnet credits. We need your support to solve this pending problem. If we don’t, rivers will flow backwards and all electronic devices will have to be re-wired in reverse. We cannot just keep kicking the can down the road on this, like they want us to do with global warming (or cooling, or like whatever...man).

Donate now to the fund before we pass laws taking it from you in the form of taxes. Feel good about what you are doing to save the world, and making it so I can buy a superyacht.


15 posted on 11/27/2015 9:11:51 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Vermont Lt; BenLurkin
It doesn"t go away, it simply changes polarity.

Doesn't it depend on what creates the magnetic field ?

The magnetic poles move all the time. According to the data, they keep moving further away from the geographic poles.

Let's say they were fixed and couldn't move. How would they suddenly 'change' polarity ? What would be the mechanism that would explain that ?

16 posted on 11/27/2015 9:23:34 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BenLurkin
The polarity flip will be our fault!

We've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

17 posted on 11/27/2015 9:32:28 PM PST by TChad
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>> The findings show that even though the magnetic field is dropping fast...

Geeks have long struggled with estimating the velocity of a fast chick.


18 posted on 11/27/2015 9:58:17 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

One of the original evidences, also for sea floor spreading, was magnetic mapping in the Atlantic during WWII for ASW purposes.

If your wandering around in the middle of nowhere and find magmatic outcrop with neat little holes cored in it, its from “paleomaggots”, guys that study/survey the magnetic record frozen in the rock at cooling.


19 posted on 11/27/2015 10:18:54 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t believe it.


20 posted on 11/27/2015 10:19:38 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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