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Pole shift is happening now!

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  • #62
    AntiMatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭AntiMatter


    My name is URL wrote: »
    From here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055782629

    Cheers, URL.

    No chance of it messing up electronics or satellites, or anything like that?


  • #63
    karl tyrrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭karl tyrrell


    santas moved to gorey and is looking for 3000 little people to work it is in todays fas :p


  • #64
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    AntiMatter wrote: »
    Cheers, URL.

    No chance of it messing up electronics or satellites, or anything like that?

    it could mess up electronic navigation systems and biological navigation systems in animals, it could technically be responsible for the decline of the honey bee.


  • #65
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    AntiMatter wrote: »
    Cheers, URL.

    No chance of it messing up electronics or satellites, or anything like that?

    I've no idea what effects it would have on those things tbh, but MT touched on it in his post.. "There might also be changes in radio reception and satellite performance during such an episode."

    The poles are constantly shifting anyway so I wouldn't be too worried about this story being a sign of things starting to intensify. I'm sure whoever is monitoring it wouldn't keep it a secret if it was going to have an impact on our lives.


  • #66
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    how does this affect our weather?


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  • #67
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well it seems the Pole Shift is affecting Tampa International Airport. Airport closed till Jan 11th or 13th depending on which report you read .There are several. so new markings can be put in place to adjust to the new changes. But on the other hand, I think they do this every few years.
    Here a couple of links.

    http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/jan/05/051903/shift-of-earths-magnetic-north-pole-impacts-tampa-/



    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40934547/ns/local_news-tampa_fl/


  • #68
    PandyAndy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭PandyAndy


    AntiMatter wrote: »
    Cheers, URL.

    No chance of it messing up electronics or satellites, or anything like that?

    What would mess up electronics and satellites is a Solar Flare :) Apparently the next one due is around 2013.

    http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6041386,00.html
    Earlier this week, scientists attending the Electric Infrastructure Security Council conference in London warned that a massive solar flare may trigger global chaos by causing blackouts and wrecking satellite communications.
    Solar flares are large explosions on the surface of the Sun, powered by the sudden release of magnetic energy that has built up in the Sun's atmosphere.


    They can last just a few seconds or up to an hour, and can occur in smaller intensities as often as several times per day.
    The researchers say that this potential disaster could occur within three years, which is when astronomers forecast a peak in the Sun's magnetic energy cycle. They say that the resulting solar storm could potentially cause geomagnetic mayhem on earth, knocking out electricity grids around the world.
    However (From the same article)
    But not all scientists are convinced of this high level of damage that a solar ejection would cause to the Earth in 2013.
    In an interview published Friday with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Phil Wilkinson, the assistant director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Ionospheric Prediction Service, said that the claims that this solar maximum would be the most violent in 100 years are "overstated."


    "[It's] going far beyond what's realistic and could be worrying or concerning for people who don't really understand the underlying science behind it all," he said. "The real message should be that the coming solar maximum period could be equally as hazardous as any other solar maximum."
    Have a nice day now :)


  • #69
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I've no idea what effects it would have on those things tbh, but MT touched on it in his post.. "There might also be changes in radio reception and satellite performance during such an episode."

    The poles are constantly shifting anyway so I wouldn't be too worried about this story being a sign of things starting to intensify. I'm sure whoever is monitoring it wouldn't keep it a secret if it was going to have an impact on our lives.

    I agree if they knew they wouldnt keep it a secret but the thing is they know very little about the affects of these things.


  • #70
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    Skangers are now south-siders and d4 heads are now north-siders. :confused:


  • #71
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,370 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    gbee wrote: »
    GPS is not immediately effected, that uses satellites [which MAY go off course eventually but they are geostationary, that is to a point on the ground, the ground is not moving outside of spec] he missed your house more likely cause his new SatNav has ten year old maps in it!!!!

    I dont think they are geostationary. That would not be practical for sat nav satellites as they would have to be in orbit above the equator to be geostationary which probably would`t work too well.


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  • #72
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Aaawww Jaysus, I thought Eircom had done the job at last......:(


  • #73
    Holybejaysus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭Holybejaysus


    So........when can we expect a pole shift tax?


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PandyAndy wrote: »
    What would mess up electronics and satellites is a Solar Flare :) Apparently the next one due is around 2013.

    http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6041386,00.html

    However (From the same article)
    Have a nice day now :)

    Those stories are based on old information! The current state of the sun is much quieter, the quietest in a century in fact.

    Some are forcasting a Dalton or even a Maunder minimun, that's why this winter is so cold and the global warming theory is rapidly losing favour.


  • #75
    AntiMatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭AntiMatter


    tallaghtmick wrote: »
    how does this affect our weather?

    See post 57 above.


  • #76
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,027 ✭✭✭The_B_Man
    Something about sandwiches


    If the North pole moves to Russia, our weather will be the same. The only difference is that Leinster will be "Up North"! Hopefully it means we also get cheap booze and tellys! :p


  • #77
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    supose ill have to buy new compass now


  • #78
    WolfForager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    But isn't the magnetic north pole located at the conventional south pole atm, and visa versa?


  • #79
    amacca
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    WolfForager wrote: »
    But isn't the magnetic north pole located at the conventional south pole atm, and visa versa?

    Yes...but that does not stop them shifting positions?


  • #80
    PeakOutput
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    its happens constantly its why you have to adjust your compasses by a certain amount of clicks every year


  • #81
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Good. We could do with a good global natural disaster. Decrease the surplus population. Introduce a bit of anarchy. It'll be like a real life post apocalyptic computer game. Or like Mad Max. Fun for all.


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  • #82
    WolfForager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    amacca wrote: »
    Yes...but that does not stop them shifting positions?

    Ha, i should have quoted one of the "Won't the IRA/Koreans be confused now" posts, would have given my post some context :D


  • #83
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Is it because of global warming?


  • #84
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭amacca


    enfant terrible wrote: »
    Is it because of global warming?

    No...are you being serious or humorous or neither?


  • #85
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭amacca


    WolfForager wrote: »
    Ha, i should have quoted one of the "Won't the IRA/Koreans be confused now" posts, would have given my post some context :D

    Ah...I see....suddenly it all becomes clear.


  • #86
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    amacca wrote: »
    No...are you being serious or humorous or neither?

    Neither I guess.


  • #87
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭gbee


    enfant terrible wrote: »
    Neither I guess.

    That's sad so. Am I to take it you genuinely though this was part of global warming?

    If anything, this could CAUSE a weather pattern shift


  • #88
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    gbee wrote: »
    That's sad so. Am I to take it you genuinely though this was part of global warming?

    If anything, this could CAUSE a weather pattern shift

    What does neither mean i'm saying again?


  • #89
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    As long as it doesn't kill anyone. Or cause schizophrenia in a sizeable minority of people.


  • #90
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭gbee


    enfant terrible wrote: »
    What does neither mean i'm saying again?

    That you don't know what you're saying and are confused and embarrassed.


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  • #91
    yoshytoshy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    For anyone who hasn't seen it ,you should have a look at this series by Brian Cox.
    Does a great job of explaining why planets are where they are and why they have different atmospheres.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUfd7RLMScU


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