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Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport
RFSSystems writes "I thought this was an amazing and rather rare phenomenon and wanted to share. 'The airport has closed its primary runway until Jan. 13 to repaint the numeric designators at each end and change taxiway signage to account for the shift in location of the Earth's magnetic north pole.' It appears that the shifting poles have begun to affect air travel in a somewhat modest way. Could this also be the explanation for the falling/dead birds this week?" I hope the gradualists are right, but scenarios for rapid magnetic pole shift are fun to think about.
As a stripper, the pole is my bestest friend!
How am I supposed to panic uncontrollably when level-headed people like you are around?
Seriously speaking, thank you (and people like you) for being around.
The birds got confused by the discrepancy between runway numbers and magnetic north, couldn't figure out where to land, ran out of fuel, and crashed?
"Nuke-lee-ar" is still three syllables. You don't say "new-clear", do you?
Sure you do! At the heart of every atom, you find its newklus.
~Idarubicin
You do have to pity the chaps responsible for repainting the runways of aircraft carriers whenever their orientation relative to the earth's magnetic field changes...
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Why, yes, Brain! I do think it is a bad idea to eat tater tots that were saved in my pocket from this afternoon's lunch!
because measuring "true" cardinal directions is so simple, compared with measuring magnetic north.
Oh wait...
This has happened before, and it'll happen again.
So say we all.
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