{"id":1766,"date":"2014-10-20T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T23:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:50:53","slug":"earths-magnetic-field-flip-faster-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/earths-magnetic-field-flip-faster-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Earths&#8217; Magnetic Field Could Flip Faster Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/earths-magnetic-field-flip-faster-thought\/\" data-text=\"Earths&#038;%238217; Magnetic Field Could Flip Faster Than We Thought\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Huh Wha&#8230;..? \u00a0The Earth&#8217;s magnetic poles could reverse? \u00a0And sooner than we thought? \u00a0To the barricades! Break out the survival gear!<\/p>\n<p>Freeze dride food? <em>Check. \u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ammo? <em>Check. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gas for the generator? <em>Check. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Big pile of gold bars? &#8230;<em>&#8230;.Dammit<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/earths-magnetic-field-could-flip-faster-we-thought?dom=PSC&amp;loc=recent&amp;lnk=4&amp;con=earths-magnetic-field-could-flip-faster-than-we-thought\" target=\"_blank\">According to the fear mongers at Popular Science we are due for a reversal of the earth&#8217;s magnetic poles<\/a>, the most recent of which was about 780,000 years ago. \u00a0The next one had not been expected to occur \u00a0for another million years or so, but now they say it could happen sooner than we thought! \u00a0I blame Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, I was under the impression that our impending doom would arrive via the <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1705\" target=\"_blank\">Robot Revolution<\/a>. \u00a0Either that or \u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1615\" target=\"_blank\">Higgs Boson Doomsday<\/a>, which we shouldn&#8217;t worry about because of it&#8217;s instantaneous nature. \u00a0Now we&#8217;re forced to sit and wait in horrible anticipation of yet another doom that may not come for two or three millenia. \u00a0That&#8217;s a long wait! \u00a0According to the article we can expect&#8230;hang on a sec, lemme find it&#8230;.we can expect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk\/education\/reversals.html#6\">haven&#8217;t found any evidence<\/a> that previous reversals caused any major damage to inhabitants of the earth.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh. \u00a0OK then. \u00a0Never Mind.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1767\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/earths-magnetic-field-flip-faster-thought\/survived\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1767\" class=\"wp-image-1767 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/survived.jpg\" alt=\"survived\" width=\"236\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/survived.jpg 236w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/survived-150x148.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yessss!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Huh Wha&#8230;..? \u00a0The Earth&#8217;s magnetic poles could reverse? \u00a0And sooner than we thought? \u00a0To the barricades! Break out the survival gear! Freeze dride food? Check. \u00a0 Ammo? Check. \u00a0 Gas for the generator? Check. \u00a0 Big pile of gold bars? &#8230;&#8230;.Dammit! According to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}