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Check your compass: The magnetic north pole is on the move
AP ^ | 02/05/2019 | AP

Posted on 02/05/2019 11:32:20 AM PST by Puppage

WASHINGTON (AP) - North isn't quite where it used to be.

Earth's north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say that past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation. On Monday, they released an update of where magnetic north really was, nearly a year ahead of schedule.

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


TOPICS: Astronomy; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; geomagneticreversal; magnetism; poleshift; russia; science
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1 posted on 02/05/2019 11:32:20 AM PST by Puppage
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To: Puppage

The traditional American middle class must be to blame. Tax them more.


2 posted on 02/05/2019 11:34:06 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (,)
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To: Puppage

Trumps fault.


3 posted on 02/05/2019 11:35:56 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Puppage

I find myself waiting for the inevitable ‘Global Warming’ tie-in.


4 posted on 02/05/2019 11:37:09 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Puppage

How soon before we are all on our heads?

5 posted on 02/05/2019 11:37:29 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Puppage

You enter the correction and let it ride....doing what it does....swing like a pendulum.


6 posted on 02/05/2019 11:37:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Puppage

Trump to blame.


7 posted on 02/05/2019 11:37:54 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Puppage

Isa. 24:20
God’s Judgment on the Earth
…19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently. 20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again. 21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.


8 posted on 02/05/2019 11:41:42 AM PST by mikec256
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To: Joe Brower
I find myself waiting for the inevitable ‘Global Warming’ tie-in.

It's drifting because the ice flow that the actual North Pole is on has broken loose and is drifting around the Arctic Ocean ...


9 posted on 02/05/2019 11:46:16 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Puppage

oh noez, pole shift
all is lost
all is lost


10 posted on 02/05/2019 11:46:54 AM PST by z3n
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To: Sacajaweau

The magnetic poles are moving and like you say, they may move back.

The problem comes if the movement causes a weakness in the Earth’s protective magnetic field.


11 posted on 02/05/2019 11:47:46 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Puppage

Hasn’t magnetic North always drifted?
In any event, it is certainly caused by Global Warming and we therefore must cede power to the U.N. and money to the Plantation Abortion Party.


12 posted on 02/05/2019 11:48:29 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: Puppage

We’re dooooomed!


13 posted on 02/05/2019 11:51:30 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: Puppage
We have to put pressure on Russia to give it back :)

14 posted on 02/05/2019 11:51:44 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Sacajaweau

You remember the recent and huge TRANSFORMER EXPLOSION in New York. Did you know that this has been happening all over the world lately ?


15 posted on 02/05/2019 11:51:59 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Puppage

Is Santa Clause nomad?


16 posted on 02/05/2019 11:52:39 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: UCANSEE2

I saw a youtube video on Transformer explosions in the month of January.


17 posted on 02/05/2019 11:53:25 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: mbarker12474
Hasn’t magnetic North always drifted?

Yes, and over the EONS it has flipped, multiple times.

The question is , what happens when it is at that mid point , between the movement from North to South ? Don't you wonder why ancient civilizations built entire cities underground ?

18 posted on 02/05/2019 11:54:51 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Puppage

Hi.

In the fwiw department, airports may have to renumber their runways.

5.56mm


19 posted on 02/05/2019 11:55:16 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Puppage

The other day, I was trying to go north and had to make 12 circles before the poll stabilized. And by then I was too dizzy to continue.


20 posted on 02/05/2019 11:55:55 AM PST by DannyTN
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