Why do people prepare? Pole Shift: Real? When?

[HighStrung]

Isn't that due to the changing direction of the wind? Planes have to take off into the wind and land into the wind for stabilization.

Nope. An airport may chose to install a new runway based on making it more aligned with wind direction, but actual designation of runways (ie, runway 9-27) has to do with the compass headings that the particular runway is aligned with. The redesignation (such as the one that happened a month or so ago) means that the actual direction of the runway is no longer aligned with the magnetic reading of a compass that it once was.

 

[Regionnus Rattis]

Airports change runway designations regularly, and always have.

Runway designations aren't based on the magnetic pole but rather the earth's axis.

As someone noted earlier, the magnetic shift is a result of the shifting and churning of the molten iron core at the center of our planet, and as such can and could shift 180 degrees very rapidly.

I did just finish reading a fun book the other day about the end of the world, the Mayan calendar, alchemy, science, religion and light all brought into a single story, where at the end of the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012, electromagnetic energy from outside our solar system came crashing through it. As a result of a supernova that was detected back in 1997, the end of the Mayan calendar had predicted that the stellar event would increase in electromagnetic wave strength, causing huge sunspots and solar flares, releasing huge bursts of gamma rays.

I think it was called Beyond 2012, The Omega Point.

Sounds plausible and realistic enough to keep you reading.

 

[ocsdor]

Runway designations aren't based on the magnetic pole but rather the earth's axis....

You should probably notify the FAA on this, because they are using magnetic direction as well:

http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim/Chap2/aim0203.html

b. Runway Designators. Runway numbers and letters are determined from the approach direction. The runway number is the whole number nearest one-tenth the magnetic azimuth of the centerline of the runway, measured clockwise from the magnetic north. The letters, differentiate between left (L), right (R), or center (C), parallel runways, as applicable:

 

[Regionnus Rattis]

You should probably notify the FAA on this, because they are using magnetic direction as well:

http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim/Chap2/aim0203.html

I stand corrected...thanks.

 

[dwagner3701]

They had a program about this on the history channel about 4 years ago. They showed how they could tell by the strata on an exposed cliff when this has happened. The layers of stratification lay out differently as I remember. They claimed that this has happened several times.....like every 250,000 years. And I believe they said that it takes approximately 25,000 years for a complete swap. During the "swap" is when the various "ice ages" occurred...volcano eruptions, and the like. It was very interesting. How accurate they are is up for debate.

 

[sassy688]

They had a program about this on the history channel about 4 years ago. They showed how they could tell by the strata on an exposed cliff when this has happened. The layers of stratification lay out differently as I remember. They claimed that this has happened several times.....like every 250,000 years. And I believe they said that it takes approximately 25,000 years for a complete swap. During the "swap" is when the various "ice ages" occurred...volcano eruptions, and the like. It was very interesting. How accurate they are is up for debate.

According to what I have been reading, Planet X enters our solar system ever 3,657 years and, depending on how close it comes to the Earth, a pole-shift occurs because Planet X is a highly magnetic planet and interacts with the Earth’s core as in a repelling magnet. As it approaches, the Earth’s core repels away from it. However, each time it passes the earth on its exit out of the solar system, as The Destroyer passes, the Earth’s core snaps back, causing the crust to shift violently. The pass coming up, probably within the next year as many people believe it to be, is coming extremely close.... The actual snap back of the shift will take an hour, a very horrifying hour.

However, as I mentioned earlier, there are many signs on the more near horizon, what is called the 7 of 10 scenarios. By the time these really kick off, we will all know one way or the other whether Planet X is a hoax or a reality. Going to the link I provided in an earlier post, the blog site, you will see updates from people around the world about earth changes in their parts of the world. Right now, Indonesia and the Phillipines are indeed sinking, Australia’s floods don’t have anything to do with rain, Japan has 3 volcanoes going off, earthquake activity is off the charts around the areas described in the 7 of 10, the magnetosphere is behaving like it has never been recorded in history before, wildlife dying unexpectedly (from methane gas)…with a media blackout on these events, the general public is totally unaware of these events.

There have been many pole-shifts in the past, but most are not very severe. This one is supposed to be a whopper.

Heh, I like my a tinfoil hat – it’s flattering!

 

[eatsnopaste]

The only pole shift that scares me is when the ..ahem..curvy girls get up to dance on amateur night and there is no weight limit!

 

[sassy688]

The only pole shift that scares me is when the ..ahem..curvy girls get up to dance on amateur night and there is no weight limit!

LOL!

 

[griegeba]

I was going to mention the airport changes, but you got it.

 

[acase20]

You can spend a lot of time worrying about the end of the world. Every culture in history has worried about it. Some of them have been destroyed (Pompeii?), most have just died off slowly (over the course of a generation or many generations).

Worrying about it is pointless. You should prepare for things that are likely to happen, and more importantly, that you can do something about. By being prepped for those things, on the off chance the TEOTWAWKI happens you'll be better off.

Just to put things in perspective:
SHTF on INGO I've noticed since June 2010:
2 Emergency surgery
3 Divorce
6 Serious car accidents no serious injury but car totaled
2 Serious car accidents- injury requiring hospital
1 Serious at fault car crash, 5 serious injuries, inadequate insurance
9 Lost jobs/no new job ready to go
7 Family deaths
6 children born
2 significant flooding events
3 computer crashes with total loss of data/no backup
1 major house fire-displaced occupants months later
2 terminal illness in family diagnosis.
4 household problems with freezing weather.
A major winter storm that power outaged thousands of people for several days.

Note there have been no zombie apocalypse or major social collapse in that time, but each of these I grant you that these are just little figures I've been noting as I see them, and I may have missed a few. I don't think I missed a Zombie Apocalypse or major social collapse. Each one of those little SHTF or other events were life changing events for the folks involved.

Just something to think about when you prep.

exactly what i was thinking on the subject

 

[nate1865]

You can spend a lot of time worrying about the end of the world. Every culture in history has worried about it. Some of them have been destroyed (Pompeii?), most have just died off slowly (over the course of a generation or many generations).

Worrying about it is pointless. You should prepare for things that are likely to happen, and more importantly, that you can do something about. By being prepped for those things, on the off chance the TEOTWAWKI happens you'll be better off.

Just to put things in perspective:
SHTF on INGO I've noticed since June 2010:
2 Emergency surgery
3 Divorce
6 Serious car accidents no serious injury but car totaled
2 Serious car accidents- injury requiring hospital
1 Serious at fault car crash, 5 serious injuries, inadequate insurance
9 Lost jobs/no new job ready to go
7 Family deaths
6 children born
2 significant flooding events
3 computer crashes with total loss of data/no backup
1 major house fire-displaced occupants months later
2 terminal illness in family diagnosis.
4 household problems with freezing weather.
A major winter storm that power outaged thousands of people for several days.

Note there have been no zombie apocalypse or major social collapse in that time, but each of these I grant you that these are just little figures I've been noting as I see them, and I may have missed a few. I don't think I missed a Zombie Apocalypse or major social collapse. Each one of those little SHTF or other events were life changing events for the folks involved.

Just something to think about when you prep.

Thanks for putting things in perspective.

Ya know, it would be nice if people out there could focus on something they can significantly influence - like say spending - instead of something they can't (whether or not it is a problem) like global warming.

 

[Chase515]

You can spend a lot of time worrying about the end of the world. Every culture in history has worried about it. Some of them have been destroyed (Pompeii?), most have just died off slowly (over the course of a generation or many generations).

Worrying about it is pointless. You should prepare for things that are likely to happen, and more importantly, that you can do something about. By being prepped for those things, on the off chance the TEOTWAWKI happens you'll be better off.

Just to put things in perspective:
SHTF on INGO I've noticed since June 2010:
2 Emergency surgery
3 Divorce
6 Serious car accidents no serious injury but car totaled
2 Serious car accidents- injury requiring hospital
1 Serious at fault car crash, 5 serious injuries, inadequate insurance
9 Lost jobs/no new job ready to go
7 Family deaths
6 children born
2 significant flooding events
3 computer crashes with total loss of data/no backup
1 major house fire-displaced occupants months later
2 terminal illness in family diagnosis.
4 household problems with freezing weather.
A major winter storm that power outaged thousands of people for several days.

Note there have been no zombie apocalypse or major social collapse in that time, but each of these I grant you that these are just little figures I've been noting as I see them, and I may have missed a few. I don't think I missed a Zombie Apocalypse or major social collapse. Each one of those little SHTF or other events were life changing events for the folks involved.

Just something to think about when you prep.

The goberment, yes i said goberment is going to have to yank the cheese off the cracker for all the free loaders in this country sometime soon! Social security is going to be the breaking point, Feed the poor and let the old rott is coming! OH wait thats already here