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Canada Loses North Pole
An anonymous reader submits "The Earth's roaming magnetic pole has moved out of Canada and into international waters as it heads towards Siberia. The magnetic pole has been within Canada's current boundaries for at least the past 400 years and left sometime in the past year after rapidly picking up speed in 2001. If it keeps to its current course and expected speed, it should reach Siberia by the middle of the century. There's speculation that December's tsunami causing earthquake may have been one of the factors causing the pole to move more quickly than predicted."
Good day, gentlemen. As you are no doubt aware, I have perfected a device capable of manipulating the earth's magnetic field. This device has already shifted the position of the earth's poles by a significant margin, and will continue to do so, eventually forcing the poles to swap positions entirely. For this reason, I've christened this latest caper 'Operation Roly-Poley'...
You see, gentlemen, Operation Roly-Poley will continue to destabilize the magnetic field of our fragile world, causing geological and meteorological disturbances on a global scale...that is, of course...unless you pay me...
One hundred billion kajillion fafillion dollaaaars!
(cue dramatic music)
Gentlemen, you have my demands...peace out.
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Does that mean the earth is spinning faster? It does seem like our days are shorter...
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I didn't realize that Peter North was Canadian.
no more "ho ho ho eh"?
Canada didn't lose it, they merely outsourced it offshore.
Why does everyone always blame Canada?
Maybe they didn't lose it, maybe it was stolen, maybe it snuck off on it's own, maybe it's just on summer vacation.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Several writers have suggested that a "polar shift" may occur in the near future. While I'm not a geophysicist myself, perhaps that is what we are seeing: a reverse in polarity of the north and south magnetic poles.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
"The magnetic pole has been within Canada's current boundaries for at least the past 400 years ... "
Given that Canada has not existed for 400 years, I'd say that's a bit of a tall tale.
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the north pole follows you...
it had to be said.
flinging poop since 1969
And Canada is like... "whats going on ey?"
In communist russia, north pole loses you !
By some coincidence, I just happened to hear
a news report of an official of the gov't of
India visiting some corner of the planet that
is still claimed by 2 or 3 countries...
Wouldn't it be better if each such piece of
interesting territory or territories-under-
dispute were to be considered to lie in an
International track (where no -one- country
could anymore claim sovereignty to it)?
I think so... Maybe the rule woud work best
if such territories "went international"
as soon as a dispute arose, but could come
back into just one country's sovereignty
as soon as all the dispouting countries
supported the claim of just one claimant.
Cool, eh?
Are taking their toll
I even get excited when I see the North Pole
See the North Pole...
I'm the only gay Eskimo
Only gay Eskimo
I'm the only one I know
The only one I know-oh-oh-oh
I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe
Only gay eskimo, eh.
Money for nothing, pix for free
...now Quebec has a precident
Is this headline deliberately cute, or just sloppy? Either way, saying "North Pole" when you mean "magnetic North Pole" is lame.
No, that's called summer
Man, this is really bad news. Without the North Pole in Canada it is going to warm up and all the snow and permafrost will melt, and uh Canada will be like a real country that has things like summer and liquid water and stuff like that and people might even want to live there even if they are not Inuits. They might even start thinking uppity like they are a real country and not just the Maple Leaf state.
The only good thing that I can see coming from this is that the NHL has got to be cancelled permanently now because their will obviously be no more hockey players. They are all going to have to take up warm weather sports like beach volleyball and surfing in Canada now.
Canadas getting a lot warmer. Vancouver has had one day of snow (and a small sprinkle at that) in the last two years. Where as ten years ago school would get snowed out quite often and it would snow for months. The summers are great too!
Thanks North Pole,.. good riddance!
Daylight is longer in summer, not shorter.
is this something we should be concerned about?
... the US was reported to have gotten closer to the South pole by roughly the same amount.
Uh...... this is the magnetic north, very little if anything to do directly with climate.
oh you bet it does
Does this mean that terns and geese are going to land in the middle of the Bering Strait and ask, What the hell? (and what about those eight tiny reindeer?)
C'est le fin du monde. Et les Canadiens dissent..."que se produit, la?"
"Our interests are to see if we can't scale it up to something more exciting," he said.
the lame thing is that those things are impossible to read. And they use fonts that are entirely unlegible even before splattering it with jibberish overtop.
Id rather read spam.
In fact, there is some effect, not exact directly over climate or temperature.
Once the pole shift occurs, it is almost sure the magnetic field decreasing will modify the amount of radiation from outer space, mostly from the sun, wich hits the ground.
The 'magnetosphere' seems to have been protecting life on Earth from outer space electromagnetic radiation. However, there is evidence that it hasn't been always that way.
This point is assured by paleonthological register in ancient rock, permitting us to suppose an approximate cyclic behavior for the planet's magnetic field. In an interval of approx 50000-100000 years, the field is inverted, and last of these was witnessed by early humans. What consequences the increased radiation will produce in us humans, and over the whole planet and its life forms, is a complete mistery by now.
Typical Republican hatred of anyone that's not perfect.
Well, considering that Slashdot is borderline socialist in leaning, I think you can thank the "Typical Democrat hatred of anyone that tries to do something for themselves."
Damn Russians -- first they spread communism, and now they're stealing Christmas!