on 4/3/05 10:53 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A similar situation is trying to predict when the earth's magnetic > pole will flip -- it has not done so for 780,000 years, yet the > average is 250K years, so statistically, a flip (like the New Madrid > quake, possibly?) is overdue, but that's only based on history, not > the actual dynamics of the earth, which are not easy to discern for > either quakes or magnetic flips. Scientists do not have enough info, > or enough computing power, according to the following Scientific > American article, to predict a magnetic flip even if they had more > info from the earth's interior. http://tinyurl.com/4gypy > Please remind us what the consequences of a flip might be? Would all the SV houses have to be rotated 180°?
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