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Post subject: The final frontier?
 Posted: Nov 10, 2002 - 01:30 PM
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Posted: Nov 10, 2002 - 02:09 PM
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Y'know Dave, that really is interesting. Up until now, I had never heard of this.
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"Maybe we weren't meant for Paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute, we must march to the sound of drums."
-- Kirk to McCoy
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Posted: Nov 10, 2002 - 02:28 PM
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I knew about the polar reversals (magnetic orientation is used to date material at very old archaeological sites) and knew we were due for one "soon" (in the geological time sense). I hadn't given much thought to effects besides the compass flip. Given I have 50 years of life left, if I'm lucky, I'll probably miss all the commotion, dangit. Too bad--it'd be interesting to witness a major geologic event like this.
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Posted: Nov 10, 2002 - 02:42 PM
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| *diane* wrote: | I knew about the polar reversals (magnetic orientation is used to date material at very old archaeological sites) and knew we were due for one "soon" (in the geological time sense). I hadn't given much thought to effects besides the compass flip. Given I have 50 years of life left, if I'm lucky, I'll probably miss all the commotion, dangit. Too bad--it'd be interesting to witness a major geologic event like this.
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Hopefully I'll have ten good years left in me yet. I was hoping to live until the latter half of the 21st Century so I could see Zephram Cochrane invent Warp Drive. 
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Posted: Nov 10, 2002 - 06:25 PM
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Personally I don't think the pole reversal will really do much damage in the grand scheme of things. I'd worry more about the Big Rock from space, we're about due for a big one. Then there's that Island off the north western coast of Africa that's going to fall into the ocean causing a huge tsunami that'll wipe out every major city on the east coast of North America, that's due to happen sometime in the next 10 to 10,000 years. There's also concern that the mega volcano under yellowstone is about due to go off in the same time frame. I also wonder about the whole global warming silliness, there's some evidence that ice ages can be much faster than previously imagined like 10-50 years for 1000's of miles of glaciers instead of 100's to 1,000's. So all this work to stop global warming could kick off a new ice age. Going th other direction leaving gloabal warming alone may very well mean the ice caps could melt away and flood every coastal city in the world. Talk about a lose - lose situation. There was also something about a truly massive earthquake is (geologically speaking) way overdue in Missouri (?) of all places. I'm sure that there's a whole mess of other doom and gloom natural events in the next 10,000 to 50,000 years but I'm really not going to worry about them. Although I'm hoping to someday leave long Island and when I do I think I'm going to buy a house a bit further away from the ocean  .
Just more reasons in my eyes to start seriously working on setting up shop so to speak in a few more places throughout the solar system  |
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