In case anyone wants to know specifically why this is crazy: here's a NASA article about magnetic pole shifts/reversals. The short version is:
- Magnetic North Pole was identified about 200 years ago and since then it's constantly been drifting so "Pole Shifts" are a constant reality.
- Complete reversals (where N and S swap) happen every 300,000 years or so on average (varying a lot). The last reversal was actually 780,000 years ago, so I'm not sure what societal collapse this guy knows about from WAY into pre-history.
- The Earth's magnetic field has declined in strength in the last 200 years by about 9%, but it's still twice as intense as it's million-year average and not going anywhere anytime soon.
Complete reversals (where N and S swap) happen every 300,000 years or so on average (varying a lot). The last reversal was actually 780,000 years ago, so I'm not sure what societal collapse this guy knows about from WAY into pre-history.
For general info, 780,000 years ago, there weren't even modern humans. That's firmly in Homo erectus times. It predates the oldest cave paintings by a factor of 16...
Edit: Apparently referencing polar shift in sun.
Also, solar flare activity cycles every 11 years or so. The recent auroras were caused by ejected solar matter interacting with Earth's magnetic field, but that doesn't require or imply that a large polar shift or pole reversal is happening.
I'm on team science but 9% in 200 years seems ...large.. for geologic timescales.
What's the real downside of the poles switching? We have GPS so in most cases it's not like we were using a compass anyway. Plus once they've fully switched it's basically back to normal, just backwards.
Wait wait wait how do poles shift if the Earth is flat with pillars on the corners and a domed roof on those?
And I’m not pulling this out of my arse, it’s the same collection of gobbledygook as the Portents nonsense!
Haven’t you ever flipped a pancake? Duh.
Sometimes when "they" need to change the battery on the sun/lamp "they" send Kevin the intern and he put the battery the wrong way
Oh, I know about these guys. They think that roughly every 10k years or so the sun does a “micronova”. The Earth supposedly absorbs a lot of energy which somehow “unlocks” the crust or something and the poles (and I guess the axial tilt itself?) radically shift in orientation.
They think the CIA and what have you is concealing this, apparently there’s a book called “The Adam and Eve Story” which details the whole thing that the TLAs don’t want anybody reading
Yeah… it’s one of the more complex and involved conspiracy pseudoscience communities out there
Yes but it doesn’t mean Earth suddenly does a backflip in place in its orbit. Axial tilt and indeed the rotational axis remain unchanged when the magnetic poles flip
The micronova conspiracy people claim that the non-magnetic poles suddenly and abruptly change, as in, the earth suddenly lurches to its side and the new non-magnetic North Pole is in the middle of the Sahara for example (that would be an insane degree of axial tilt lol)
I was gonna say, pretty sure I learned that in Geology in college. Dude made me doubt myself for a sec.
Aged like Skinner's house after aurora borealis was localized entirely within his kitchen.
Can I see it?
No
Have you ever seen that gross thing that some people do where they leave meat in a jar to rot and then eat it and think it's good for them when all it's really doing is making them very, very sick? Yeah, it's aged like that.
Don't bash garum while you're making your point. It's delicious.
I've always been curious, but I really don't like the taste of fish oil (meaning there aren't many fish I enjoy eating), so I imagine I wouldn't like it.
