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Fascinating. A must-watch.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by geo321.

*promote

Great post, thanks for the brain food.

Invocations (promote) cannot be called by krazyety because krazyety is not privileged - sorry.

Good stuff, but the music, omg lol.

Me scared. I'm thinking about making a magnetic suit for myself. Hope that works.

Thanks all, for the boost.

How long until the news syndicates catch onto this and (try to) tie it to climate change/global warming?

Southern magnetic upheaval @ 30:27-30:37. Get it? eh?

I admit that's bad. Not as bad as the custom music though. Great program, great sift!

http://scienceblogs.com/highlyallochthonous/2009/02/is_the_earths_magnetic_field_a.php

"Of course, another thing you should get from the Valet et al. paper is that a full reversal sequence is not an instantaneous event; our compasses will not point north today and south tomorrow. Instead, the geomagnetic field will weaken, and the magnetic poles will start to wander to lower latitudes, and possibly multiply, over a period of hundreds and thousands of years. It looks dramatic from the perspective of Deep Time, but during a reversal the changes over a human lifetime will probably be little different from the secular variation we see today. No extinction event has ever been linked to a magnetic field reversal, and I think that we might just cope with the next one too - whenever it might occur."

This is a fear-mongering and thus, viewer selling film. It's entertainment value trumps is scientific value. Instead of worrying about magnetic fields destroying civilization and our human reality, concern yourself with historical materialism and participation in society.

>> ^tsquire1:


This is a fear-mongering and thus, viewer selling film. It's entertainment value trumps is scientific value. Instead of worrying about magnetic fields destroying civilization and our human reality, concern yourself with historical materialism and participation in society.


While I admit I think they over did the presentation a bit, (which Nova has been doing lately) I didn't get that take away from it. Perhaps I was calmed by having previous knowledge on the subject, but I don't think it reaches the realm of fear-mongering. I think PBS is just trying to "turn up the volume" in an environment where retaining the attention of the viewer is increasingly difficult. I, like you, don't care for that aspect, however, I don't think its sensationalism exceeds its scientific content.

Just my 2c which is actually 5c adjusted for inflation.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Good stuff, but the music, omg lol.
/me guesses producer's girlfriend is a struggling solo artist. Agree on the program quality.