06-11-2016, 08:20 PM
Just to illustrate a point through satire, here's something else for people to worry about. Luckily, it can't be linked to man in any way, shape, or form -- but it does illustrate that the earth routinely undergoes MASSIVE changes, most of which we don't understand:
The end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways, depending on who you ask. Some people believe global cataclysm will occur when Earth's magnetic poles reverse. When north goes south, they say, the continents will lurch in one direction or the other, triggering massive earthquakes, rapid climate change and species extinctions.
The geologic record shows that hundreds of pole reversals have occurred throughout Earth's history; they happen when patches of iron atoms in Earth's liquid outer core become reverse-aligned, like tiny magnets oriented in the opposite direction from those around them. When the reversed patches grow to the point that they dominate the rest of the core, Earth's overall magnetic field flips. The last reversal happened 780,000 years ago during the Stone Age, and indeed there's evidence to suggest the planet may be in the early stages of a pole reversal right now.
The geomagnetic field is currently weakening, possibly because of a growing patch of reverse-alignment in the liquid core deep beneath Brazil and the South Atlantic. According to Tarduno, the strength of Earth's magnetic field "has been decreasing for at least 160 years at an alarming rate, leading some to speculate that we are heading toward a reversal."
http://www.livescience.com/18426-earth-m...-flip.html
Perhaps government regulation and control of magnets is in order? After all, we can't have all these people running around pointing magnets in any random direction! Who knows, that might, in some infinitesimal way, contribute to hastening the reversal of the poles!
Consider this: If each random magnet hastens the pole reversal by just .0000000000001 seconds, then we might lose... let's see here... carry the 5... like 8 seconds of time! Yet Congress remains silent on this looming catastrophe, and magnets are still sold and distributed freely across the globe.
Sure, regulation of all privately-owned magnets is a bit extreme -- but isn't it better to be safe than sorry?
The end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways, depending on who you ask. Some people believe global cataclysm will occur when Earth's magnetic poles reverse. When north goes south, they say, the continents will lurch in one direction or the other, triggering massive earthquakes, rapid climate change and species extinctions.
The geologic record shows that hundreds of pole reversals have occurred throughout Earth's history; they happen when patches of iron atoms in Earth's liquid outer core become reverse-aligned, like tiny magnets oriented in the opposite direction from those around them. When the reversed patches grow to the point that they dominate the rest of the core, Earth's overall magnetic field flips. The last reversal happened 780,000 years ago during the Stone Age, and indeed there's evidence to suggest the planet may be in the early stages of a pole reversal right now.
The geomagnetic field is currently weakening, possibly because of a growing patch of reverse-alignment in the liquid core deep beneath Brazil and the South Atlantic. According to Tarduno, the strength of Earth's magnetic field "has been decreasing for at least 160 years at an alarming rate, leading some to speculate that we are heading toward a reversal."
http://www.livescience.com/18426-earth-m...-flip.html
Perhaps government regulation and control of magnets is in order? After all, we can't have all these people running around pointing magnets in any random direction! Who knows, that might, in some infinitesimal way, contribute to hastening the reversal of the poles!
Consider this: If each random magnet hastens the pole reversal by just .0000000000001 seconds, then we might lose... let's see here... carry the 5... like 8 seconds of time! Yet Congress remains silent on this looming catastrophe, and magnets are still sold and distributed freely across the globe.
Sure, regulation of all privately-owned magnets is a bit extreme -- but isn't it better to be safe than sorry?
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