• FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Oh, I know about these guys. They think that roughly every 10k years or so the sun does a “micronova”. The Earth supposedly absorbs a lot of energy which somehow “unlocks” the crust or something and the poles (and I guess the axial tilt itself?) radically shift in orientation.

    They think the CIA and what have you is concealing this, apparently there’s a book called “The Adam and Eve Story” which details the whole thing that the TLAs don’t want anybody reading

    Yeah… it’s one of the more complex and involved conspiracy pseudoscience communities out there

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        2 months ago

        Yes but it doesn’t mean Earth suddenly does a backflip in place in its orbit. Axial tilt and indeed the rotational axis remain unchanged when the magnetic poles flip

        The micronova conspiracy people claim that the non-magnetic poles suddenly and abruptly change, as in, the earth suddenly lurches to its side and the new non-magnetic North Pole is in the middle of the Sahara for example (that would be an insane degree of axial tilt lol)

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    In case anyone wants to know specifically why this is crazy: here’s a NASA article about magnetic pole shifts/reversals. The short version is:

    • Magnetic North Pole was identified about 200 years ago and since then it’s constantly been drifting so “Pole Shifts” are a constant reality.
    • Complete reversals (where N and S swap) happen every 300,000 years or so on average (varying a lot). The last reversal was actually 780,000 years ago, so I’m not sure what societal collapse this guy knows about from WAY into pre-history.
    • The Earth’s magnetic field has declined in strength in the last 200 years by about 9%, but it’s still twice as intense as it’s million-year average and not going anywhere anytime soon.
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      Edit: Apparently referencing polar shift in sun.

      Also, solar flare activity cycles every 11 years or so. The recent auroras were caused by ejected solar matter interacting with Earth’s magnetic field, but that doesn’t require or imply that a large polar shift or pole reversal is happening.

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        2 months ago

        See? It’s cyclic! People are even confirming it!

        It’s certain people, society collapses every 11 years! Learn how to protect yourself here!

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    2 months ago

    Have you ever seen that gross thing that some people do where they leave meat in a jar to rot and then eat it and think it’s good for them when all it’s really doing is making them very, very sick? Yeah, it’s aged like that.