So I can stop payin my bills & run up a buncha credit card debt, with no repercussions?

Will my magnets still work?

What will happen will happen no matter what we do or say. However, the Jedi force will work in reverse.

One thing I do know is that the food substitute that will follow, Soylent Green, I will have none of it... We all know what it is made of....

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If the rate of decay continues at this pace, or if it speeds up even more, we could be looking at a mass extinction event that is beyond what most people would dare to imagine.

Yawn...
Meanwhile, I am working on my golf game and shooting accuracy.

Extinction level events have happened before, it will happen again. The sun is going to grow and swallow the earth at some point when it turns into a red giant in a few billion years. Stuff happens.

We could get drilled by a large asteroid on any given day.

Or the magic bug could evolve when a pig eats a dead bird that pecked seeds from a sick bats shit.

Or lil’ Kim could wake up tomorrow with a REALLY painful gouty foot and let fly with the nukes and start a chain reaction across the globe.

Or the poles could flip. One way or another, something will happen eventually. I’ll worry about it then.

I thought there had been a previous magnetic polar shift within one generation. I would certainly call that pretty damn fast.

How old is mankind anyway, more or less ? How many years is that ? And how many magnetic polar reversals have happened since that time ? Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful then to have survived and thrived.

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Originally posted by wrightd:
I thought there had been a previous magnetic polar shift within one generation. I would certainly call that pretty damn fast.

How old is mankind anyway, more or less ? How many years is that ? And how many magnetic polar reversals have happened since that time ? Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful then to have survived and thrived.

- Homo sapiens, about 200,000 years, give or take.
- None. Not counting this one. The last being around 750,000 years ago.
- FIFY: Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful lucky then to have survived and thrived. The total human population being reduced to between 3,000 and 10,000 individuals by an unrelated event around 70,000 years ago.

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Originally posted by Doc H.:

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Originally posted by wrightd:
I thought there had been a previous magnetic polar shift within one generation. I would certainly call that pretty damn fast.

How old is mankind anyway, more or less ? How many years is that ? And how many magnetic polar reversals have happened since that time ? Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful then to have survived and thrived.

- Homo sapiens, about 200,000 years, give or take.
- None. Not counting this one. The last being around 750,000 years ago.
- FIFY: Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful lucky then to have survived and thrived. The total human population being reduced to between 3,000 and 10,000 individuals by an unrelated event around 70,000 years ago.

Wasn't that mass extinction about the same time the dinosaurs were killed off by the asteroid?

flashguy

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Originally posted by Doc H.:

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Originally posted by wrightd:
I thought there had been a previous magnetic polar shift within one generation. I would certainly call that pretty damn fast.

How old is mankind anyway, more or less ? How many years is that ? And how many magnetic polar reversals have happened since that time ? Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful then to have survived and thrived.

- Homo sapiens, about 200,000 years, give or take.
- None. Not counting this one. The last being around 750,000 years ago.
- FIFY: Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful lucky then to have survived and thrived. The total human population being reduced to between 3,000 and 10,000 individuals by an unrelated event around 70,000 years ago.

Maybe, maybe not. Some evidence says die off was not as bad as previously though.

No. Flashguy you are thinking about the Chicxulub impact, which was many, many millions of years ago.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by Doc H.:

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Originally posted by wrightd:
I thought there had been a previous magnetic polar shift within one generation. I would certainly call that pretty damn fast.

How old is mankind anyway, more or less ? How many years is that ? And how many magnetic polar reversals have happened since that time ? Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful then to have survived and thrived.

- Homo sapiens, about 200,000 years, give or take.
- None. Not counting this one. The last being around 750,000 years ago.
- FIFY: Seems like mankind was pretty resourceful lucky then to have survived and thrived. The total human population being reduced to between 3,000 and 10,000 individuals by an unrelated event around 70,000 years ago.

Wasn't that mass extinction about the same time the dinosaurs were killed off by the asteroid?

flashguy

The K-T mass extinction event that reduced the dinosaurs to non-viable populations was 66 million years ago. Asteroid. And assorted bad luck (for the dinosaurs). The largest mass extinction event, almost setting the planet back to zero-hour and no life forms, was 250 million years ago. Caused by....something else. The more recent human bottleneck resulting in almost the elimination of the species was a more mundane combination of genetics and volcanic activity. Humanity, and indeed all Earth-life, has always existed on the narrow margin of environment and adaptability, with an extremely narrow range of survivability, considering the vast differences that exist outside the comfy zone of Earth's atmosphere and this rather benign, extremely local and protected corner of a vast, hostile, unbelievably harsh and unforgiving Universe.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Well, the earth's magnetic north pole is indeed shifting at an accelerated rate. That's scientific fact. What we are to make of that though I suppose is up for debate.

Oh, that's easy: All we have to do whenever there's a global crisis is to surrender our rights and more of our income to the Democrat Party.

Oy vey! Thanks for the heads-up.

I'm going to order a couple cases of .22 LR before the panic hits.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Will my magnets still work?

Maybe you’ll have to use them upside down? Will we have to drive electric cars backwards?

BUY MORE AMMO!!!

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
No. Flashguy you are thinking about the Chicxulub impact, which was many, many millions of years ago.

You're right. I somehow read "70,000" as "70 million"--my bad.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Doc H.:
.....Humanity, and indeed all Earth-life, has always existed on the narrow margin of environment and adaptability, with an extremely narrow range of survivability, considering the vast differences that exist outside the comfy zone of Earth's atmosphere and this rather benign, extremely local and protected corner of a vast, hostile, unbelievably harsh and unforgiving Universe.

The perfectness of our home is so razor thin. Change the slightest any parameter of our existence and the planet is inhabitable. Our planet goes through periods of change, some of which have made the planet nearly inhabitable for our form of life. Every day that passes and we are granted one more sunrise is a miracle in and of itself.

A great argument against man made climate change is history. It's right there under all the layers of sediment. We've always had a cyclical ever changing climate. Climate change is real, but any effects we can make are miniscule and will not greatly change what the cosmos has planned for our little rock in this harsh deadly environment that is our universe.

One theory is that the core of mars solidified over time and stopped spinning.

It then lost its magnetic field and then its atmosphere.

Our planet could be next.

In a few millennia

Skins2281, I think you meant "UNinhabitable" twice.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Doc H.:
Humanity, and indeed all Earth-life, has always existed on the narrow margin of environment and adaptability, with an extremely narrow range of survivability, considering the vast differences that exist outside the comfy zone of Earth's atmosphere and this rather benign, extremely local and protected corner of a vast, hostile, unbelievably harsh and unforgiving Universe.

And yet, there are so many who believe that we have any effect whatsoever on the environment/climate.

As I've said before, all one has to do is wade out, thigh deep, into a river to realize that we are completely insignificant to the future of this planet. Mother Nature is the boss and always has been.