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OMG - the Sun's magnetic field is about to flip!

ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
edited 2013-08-09 17:09 in General Discussion
Quick! Build a bunker! Grab your gun! Buy gold and hoard chewing tobacco! The Sun's magnetic field is about to flip!

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  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-08-06 20:48
    I have been hearing this for a number of years. Oh well, if it happens it happens, so be it.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-08-06 20:50
    Good thing Twinkies are back on the shelves!!
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-08-07 00:17
    NWCCTV,
    I have been hearing this for a number of years. Oh well, if it happens it happens, so be it.
    You do realize this happens with every sun spot cycle, every 11 years?
  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2013-08-07 01:03
    Heater. wrote: »
    NWCCTV,


    You do realize this happens with every sun spot cycle, every 11 years?

    Thanks for the info, Heater. For a moment there I thought it was 'The End' - again
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-08-07 04:56
    Heater. wrote: »
    NWCCTV,


    You do realize this happens with every sun spot cycle, every 11 years?
    I wish it would stop doing this, it makes me feel giddy and sick!!
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2013-08-07 15:11
    lanternfish wrote: »
    Thanks for the info, Heater. For a moment there I thought it was 'The End' - again

    LOL. That seems to happen about every 11 years too. Just seems natural now ... wuf, wuf, wuf.
  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2013-08-07 18:29
    Lest we forget, the good old planet Earth could be due for a magnetic field flip sometime in the next few thousand years. That should get the doom merchants yapping.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-08-08 03:50
    Are we sure it's just going to flip and not oscillate!!:frown:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-08-08 09:19
    cysmith23,

    Welcome.

    Sometimes we also talk about Propeller chips and robots and such:)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-08-08 09:24
    I suspect the human race will not survive until the next flip of the Earths magnetic field. Or at least any surviving humans will not be in any condition to know about it.

    Of course it is already oscillating. That's how we have a rough idea about when it will happen next.
  • Hal AlbachHal Albach Posts: 747
    edited 2013-08-08 10:15
    Good grief!

    Fox News just had someone from Discover Magazine on saying that this happens about every 22 years while the background image was saying every 11 years.

    He also stated that we could have massive and complete blackouts that could last for a year or more when all the electric transformers blow up. The host then asked him,

    "Do you really think that will happen?" to which Mr. Discover Magazine answered, "Statistically, no. But it could happen!"

    Certainly makes me happy I stopped reading that magazine a long time ago. Where do they get these guys?
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2013-08-08 11:44
    lanternfish wrote: »
    Lest we forget, the good old planet Earth could be due for a magnetic field flip sometime in the next few thousand years.

    If that happens bees will start flying backwards. Babies will be born old, then age by getting younger. McDonald's will finally get my breakfast order right.

    It *COULD* happen!
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-08-09 12:20
    Heater. wrote: »

    Of course it is already oscillating. That's how we have a rough idea about when it will happen next.
    All right clever clogs........ I knew that! :lol::innocent:
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-08-09 12:22
    GordonMcComb wrote: »
    McDonald's will finally get my breakfast order right.

    It *COULD* happen!
    I thought we were talking about an actual occurance not about a fantasy?:smile:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-08-09 17:09
    It's a very sad life if you have to get your breakfast in McDonalds. I thought that mush was for drunk people on their way home from the pub.
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