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user-inactivated  ·  3794 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Earth's magnetic poles are getting ready to flip

Wait, REALLY? I am sooooo excited about this. This is easily my favorite geological weird thing. I have long entertained a secret wish to write an alternative-history genre piece wherein the multithousand year pole-flipping process began right as humans were coming into their own. What happens? Does it fuck our science? Is navigation affected a lot? Does a polarity religion come into power?





ooli  ·  3794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's supposed to take 1000 to 10,000 years to complete. So we'll very very very slowly get inacurate GPS notification :]

YetAnotherAccount  ·  3794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

GPS doesn't do any magnetic detection, IIRC.

user-inactivated  ·  3794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah if it had begun when the Phoenicians were messing about and come to fruition in the age of the Portuguese, POLARITY RELIGION