Checkmate!It looks like we're no more than three to four months away from a complete field reversal," Todd Hoeksema, the director of Stanford University's Wilcox Solar Observatory, said in a statement. "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system."
Sun's Magnetic Field Will Flip in 3 to 4 Months
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Sun's Magnetic Field Will Flip in 3 to 4 Months
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Does this mean I'll need to retune my tv? Bloody hell.
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All the shows will run backwards.
Australia will become a northern country and renamed Borealia.
Australia will become a northern country and renamed Borealia.
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New Yorkers will start eating chitlins and collards and a Southern breakfast will be bagels with lox and cream cheese.
It's a world gone MAD, I tell you!
It's a world gone MAD, I tell you!
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Re: Sun's Magnetic Field Will Flip in 3 to 4 Months
Apparently this is just a normal part of the 11 year solar cycle, usually occurring around the middle of the solar maximum (paraphrased from New Scientist)
Why I'd never heard of it before reading it in New Scientist recently, I don't know.
Why I'd never heard of it before reading it in New Scientist recently, I don't know.
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Re: Sun's Magnetic Field Will Flip in 3 to 4 Months
Meh. Now, when he Earth's magnetic field flips, then it will be panic stations 
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The geese will fly north for the winter as they have for the last million years or so...klr wrote:Meh. Now, when he Earth's magnetic field flips, then it will be panic stations
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IDMD2Cormac wrote:Doom predictors have been with humans right through our history. They are like the proverbial stopped clock - right twice a day, but not due to the efficacy of their prescience.
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