[onoway]

NASA says that we are overdue for a magnetic pole shift. Not everyone agrees, it's been a LONG time since there was one, but apparently it isn't on a regular schedule. There's a bunch of stuff out there about what a pole shift would mean but it ranges from "not really anything we will even notice" through a degree of difficulty " it will be accompanied with disruptions to satellites and electrical installations" to major catastrophe "we will fry" as one person eloquently put it, "because the ozone layer will disappear entirely for a number of years". (Then he says we can MAKE ozone easilly..Perhaps we just don't know how to make it stick around? He didn't explain that part.)

It was interesting to learn that the magnetic north pole is gallopping toward Siberia at an ever increasing speed. When people started measuring it it was moving maybe inches a year and if I understood one site correctly it is now moving at something like 30 miles a year. And speeding up as it goes. ( I wasn't sure about believing this until a news`story a couple of weeks ago about planes in Florida being delayed because of needing to adjust their bits and bobs to the new location of the magentic pole.) Getting ready to swap ends maybe?

Lots of people here who are educated in this space, according to the climate change thread, so I was wondering what their thoughts were.

[barmar]

I suppose it's good that we developed GPS technology before magnetic compasses became obsolete.