North Magnetic Pole Moving to Siberia
Over the last century, the magnetic North Pole has moved 1,100 miles out into the arctic, away from Canada and towards Siberia. Perhaps it knows something that we don't about US designs on all that Canadian water.
According to the great Wiki, "Over very long periods, geomagnetic reversals seems to have occurred with a frequency of 1 to 5 events per million years; however, this duration is highly variable."
The last time it switched was 780,000 years ago - seems like we're due to have a switch!
It's a topsy-turvy world; Let's be careful out there!
posted by Smashed at 12/10/2005 12:35:00 PM
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The winds and blowing snow was so intense on the Friday Noon walk that it was noted to be very much like Siberia! While that made NR feel very much at home, we did not detect any stray magnetic fields.
P.S. Aluminum helmets are not such a good idea when its really cold out!
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