What might happen if the Earth's poles reversed?

What do you think would happen here on ground level if the earths poles reversed?

BTW this is in relation to the earth aligning with the Supermassive Black Hole in the center of the milky way on 2012.

I would be flying to Seattle and end up in Brisbane.azrealhk

...nice one. :lol:

We'd all be violently yanked upwards and end up with our heads touching the ground with our feet up in the air.

Gloves would become the new shoes.

Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

Like whats going to happen in 2012. Ya basically all technology will fail, any electronic device will be screwed and humanity would be put back into the stone age. KittenNipples

So basically a mass extinction level event.

I kinda hope so. Humans have it in them to be a good animal, but someone needs to hit the reset button. I really don't want everything to die.

I doubt that the earth would fly out of orbit. The earth has taken many knocks in the past, including one which created all the continents from a single Pangaea.

What do you think would happen here on ground level if the earths poles reversed?

BTW this is in relation to the earth aligning with the Supermassive Black Hole in the center of the milky way on 2012.

stopitandtidyup

Just when you thought it was safe to exist in 2012...Read the whole page, nothing about 2012 or Earth aligning with our black hole.

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What do you think would happen here on ground level if the earths poles reversed?

BTW this is in relation to the earth aligning with the Supermassive Black Hole in the center of the milky way on 2012.

TheZ3nMan

Just when you thought it was safe to exist in 2012...Read the whole page, nothing about 2012 or Earth aligning with our black hole.

I never said it did. I am just explaining what a SMBH is.

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What do you think would happen here on ground level if the earths poles reversed?

BTW this is in relation to the earth aligning with the Supermassive Black Hole in the center of the milky way on 2012.

stopitandtidyup

Just when you thought it was safe to exist in 2012...Read the whole page, nothing about 2012 or Earth aligning with our black hole.

I never said it did. I am just explaining what a SMBH is.

The earth would slowly spin off of its orbit and probably end up being roasted for a few months before being shot off into some weird elipitcal orbit.lim_ak

life would pretty much end as all the ecosystems would be so screwed up killing off most animals and vegetation. Pearl_of_Egypt

it won't happen in 2012....its been moving at an eye shattering rate of 2cm per year.

Wouldnt effect me because Im actually an alien posting from mars:twisted:

*rolls eyes*

Yes theres life on mars....

I may finally be able to lose my virginity. :(

Also, OP picked the wrong Supermassive Black Hole

i would be left handed.solidgamer

Then I will be right handed.:o

Ugh this is silly. The poles have reversed many times throughout the history of Earth and the planet is still here.Darthmatt

Yeah seriously. It's not like they are going to happen in one day. It lake thousands of years for the poles to reverse.

The compass will point South?death_bagel

I heard in physics last year, that if the poles were to reverse, there would be a time where the earth would have no magnetic field around it, this would cause all the solar radiation (And other radiation) that is usually deflected/repelled by the magnetic field to fall on the earth, effectively causing all life on earth to receive massive doses of radiation, causing cancer, mutation and even death... But that's just what I heard last year at some point ^_^ don't know how true it is or not..._0V3RKI11_

Jokes would be messed up.

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In Soviet Russia, Car Drives YOU!

[QUOTE="_0V3RKI11_"]I heard in physics last year, that if the poles were to reverse, there would be a time where the earth would have no magnetic field around it, this would cause all the solar radiation (And other radiation) that is usually deflected/repelled by the magnetic field to fall on the earth, effectively causing all life on earth to receive massive doses of radiation, causing cancer, mutation and even death... But that's just what I heard last year at some point ^_^ don't know how true it is or not...Aeronautical

Yeah, but would that be main protection from gamma waves, whereas the magnetic field would protect more from Alpha particles and less so, beta particles?