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What will 2012 bring us as the human race?

I've been studying a little about the pole movement. It has shifted more than double from the original North/ South pole. Does anyone else believe that this much shifting over a short amount of time will continue to rapidly propel the Earth to a complete 180 degree flip? Is it even possible?

Update:

Alan,

Twice as much as it's original position. The tropic of cancer used to be at 23.5 degrees tilt, now it is at 44 degrees that is nearly that is double from 0 degrees of it's original position, nearly double!

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Twice as much as what?, that makes no sense.

    Here in the west midlands of the UK the magnetic north has been shifting at about one degree every 12 years since I have been reading maps (about 60 years)

    Just because the magnetic pole has shifted it does not mean the true pole has, they are not related.

    I observe with a telescope most night and have noticed no measurable movement in the celestial pole, Ye precession occurs but it is hardly noticeable.

    And finally a 180 degree flip is not possible.

    I would love to know who's data you have been studying, it sounds a bit far fetched.

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    Source(s): 50 years studying astronomy
  • 9 years ago

    The Tropic at Cancer at 44°? That means the Arctic Circle is at 46° latitude and I am 5° north of there and would never see the Sun during most of December and January.

    Strangely enough, the Sun has been rising and setting each day just as normal.

    Don't you ever get the teensy weensiest little inkling that something like this might, just might, be noticed by more people than just the odd conspiracy nutcase on the internet, whose garbage you've swallowed hook, line and sinker?

    I'm hoping that what 2012 brings us is an end to such stupidity, but to be honest, I'm not all that optimistic.

  • 9 years ago

    No. It's not possible to "flip" the Earth with anything less than a collision with a Mars-sized object. There hasn't been "significant" movement of the rotational poles over anything which could be considered a short time.

    This is not to be confused with the natural wander of the magnetic poles, which has nothing to do with flipping the Earth.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Christmas

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I think eventually this change may take us to up and down straight instead of the 23 degrees off we are now, but I doubt a 180 degree flip

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Extinction.

  • 9 years ago

    And the moon will crash into the Earth like that Zelda game too.

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