Thursday, 18 September 2008

Death By Compass Reversal

Apparently our North/ South magnetic poles are long overdue for a change about and that when this interesting event occurs the Earth's surface will be exposed to a severe raking from cosmic rays. It seems that the magnetosphere's repellent force has largely been the barrier which hitherto has protected the surface from this event.

What will that mean for terrestrial denizens- toast, I'm afraid.

One doesn't hear much about this particular doomsday scenario, no it's all "Near-Earth-Objects" and Bird 'Flu- I haven't heard a Lembit Opic promouncement on this topic yet, his only concern, other than sundry cheeky girls, is death by asteroid.

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