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The planet's geologic record has very clear evidence that pole shifts have occurred many times in the past and there is no doubt that they will occur again. ( The phenomenon referred to here as a "pole shift" is not the shifting of the crust by thousands of miles, but rather, changes in the magnetic field of the planet.
But recent evidence from studying the alignment of iron particles in lava flows found one case where the Earth's magnetic field shifted 80 degrees in 13 days.
Compasses would obviously be effected as would all navigational instruments which depend on them. So shipping, air-flight and all GPS equipment, including satellites, would be off-line until we figured out how to cope with the reversal.
Migratory birds, fish and animals would become confused. This might lead to them wandering far from current feeding and breeding grounds, into areas not suitable for them, and could quite easily be concieved as leading to mass extinctions, habitat destruction and loss of life, both animal and human.
While this latter theory is controversial, scientists have already shown that insects can actually be killed as a result of fluctuations in magnetic fields around them, and the same experimenters have shown similar, though smaller, effects in humans, leaving them dazed and confused. If you consider the number of humans involved in operating machinery that would be life-threatening in the case of faulty operation, you can see that global effects would probably be large.
Originally posted by optimus primal
it's no big secret that mainstream science acknowledges that magnetic pole shifts occur. we're due for one and it looks like it's started. HOWEVER, what mainstream science doesn't acknowledge is fearmongerers who claim it will happen in one year. an mp shift takes thousands of years to complete.
Do they take thousands of years to begin? How would the beginning of a magnetic pole shift manifest? What are the signs?
Originally posted by daryllyn
reply to post by this_is_who_we_are
But recent evidence from studying the alignment of iron particles in lava flows found one case where the Earth's magnetic field shifted 80 degrees in 13 days.
Informative Article
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
Originally posted by daryllyn
reply to post by this_is_who_we_are
But recent evidence from studying the alignment of iron particles in lava flows found one case where the Earth's magnetic field shifted 80 degrees in 13 days.
Informative Article
I'd be interested to know the source information for the "80 degree shift in 13 days".