Saturday, August 24, 2013

Magnetic Pole Shift


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This is a dip circle, and it's used to measure the angle between the direction of the earth's magnetic field and the horizontal at any point on the surface. This will not save you from magnetic pole shift.
Want some more? Well, how about a magnetic pole shift? ‘Cause that's happening now, with magnetic north (and thus the direction of compasses) changing by up to 40 miles a year, and getting faster all the time.
Martin: The thing we have to watch for is the physical core switch of our axis. It's like when you put two positive magnets together, and you push them together, they violently flip around, and that happens kind of for the same reason. Our sheet of earth is floating on magma, and the plates move around and when the magma and core gets highly active because of the magnetics, it moves those plates and switches the earth around a lot, and the physical sheet of earth could switch or move around, or flip to the other side, and that could be 100 percent death to everybody. There's no way of getting out from under that. The only place you'd be safe is on the space station.

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