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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:38 AM
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Geomagnetic flip may not be random after all
Geomagnetic flip may not be random after all
21 March 2006

One of the most fascinating natural phenomena on Earth is the flipping of its magnetic field, which has occurred hundreds of times in the last 160 million years. When the magnetic field flips, the North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa. The last time this happened was some 780,000 years ago, so we could be heading for another reversal soon. Now, physicists in Italy have found that the frequency of these polarity reversals is not random as previously thought but occurs in clusters, revealing some kind of "memory" of previous events (physics/0603086)....>

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/15/1
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:41 AM
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1. Does this mean we will be upside down?
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:42 AM
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2. Yes. Fortunately I have learned to walk on my hands.
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Kierkegaard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 10:49 AM
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3. You mean we aren't upside-down already?
I mean, lies are truth, wrong is right, etc. Could this be the new order of things because of one of these 'magnetic flips?'
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 11:30 AM
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4. No, our compases will just be pointing south.
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:03 PM
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5. All of our
blue field magnetic dip needle sea mines will explode.

All or our red field magnetic dip needle sea mines will also explode.

If there are any left.

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