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Post by rmarks1 on Jan 30, 2018 23:40:26 GMT -5
It's flipped 7 times in the past 2 million years. The problem is while it's flipping, we will all be exposed to increased radiation. {quote]Historically, Earth’s North and South magnetic poles have flipped every 200,000 or 300,000 years—except right now, they haven’t flipped successfully for about 780,000 years. But the planet’s magnetic field is at long last showing signs of shifting. Although there’s no way to know yet for sure, it could be gearing up to flip once more, according to Undark Magazine. And that possibility is raising new speculation about what that means for planetary life. Our planet’s magnetic field protects us from lethal levels of radiation from phenomena like solar rays. The dangerous particles never hit us directly, because upon entering the Earth’s atmosphere the magnetic field deflects them and forces them to move around, according to NASA. So the prospect of that field weakening, which it does when it’s getting ready to flip, is worrisome: It would leave us without sufficient protection. www.yahoo.com/news/earth-apos-magnetic-poles-show-185939488.html [/quote] Bob
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Post by faskew on Jan 31, 2018 8:51:39 GMT -5
And there's also the unknown of how long such an event would take. Not likely to happen overnight, but the damage from 1 year of increased radiation would be nothing compared to say 100 years of it.
All we know now is that it has happened in the past and will likely happen again in the future. Maybe. We don't know what the trigger is, when the next event will happen, how long it will require, or what the actual damage will be. 8-<
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Post by raybar on Jan 31, 2018 10:39:19 GMT -5
The key point of the whole article, stated in the third sentence, is "there’s no way to know yet." But, just to be safe, we are building large electromagnets around the house which are designed such that the magnetic field they produce will send excess radiation to the neighbors.
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Post by faskew on Jan 31, 2018 14:25:09 GMT -5
I think buying one of those abandoned missile silos would be a good idea. Get deep underground, where the invisible killer can't reach you. 8-D
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