Would magn. pole reversal actually mess up electronic equipment?
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From: Bruce McFarling on 30 Dec 2009 00:59 On Dec 30, 12:29 am, don <don> wrote: > Bruce McFarling wrote: > > If you are going to spout loose speculations premised on falsehoods > > that can be uncovered in a few minutes searching, could it be loose > > speculations about Forth? > Oil is not a write only language. Indeed, at the pace of geological oil formation its more like an already written, read once language, despite massive wishful thinking to the contrary.
From: Archimedes' Lever on 30 Dec 2009 01:12 On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:59:52 -0800 (PST), Bruce McFarling <agila61(a)netscape.net> wrote: >On Dec 30, 12:29�am, don <don> wrote: >> Bruce McFarling wrote: >> > If you are going to spout loose speculations premised on falsehoods >> > that can be uncovered in a few minutes searching, could it be loose >> > speculations about Forth? > >> Oil is not a write only language. > >Indeed, at the pace of geological oil formation its more like an >already written, read once language, despite massive wishful thinking >to the contrary. Let's ask Peat Moss, and see what he has to say... Oh wait... that's coal. :-)
From: Sylvia Else on 30 Dec 2009 18:31 JJ wrote: > Hi > > this has perhaps been asked before(?) > > Apologies in that case. > > What I wanted to ask is, if earths magnetic pole now would manage to > flip in a really quick timespan (let's say less than 5 minutes), would > that have any effect on electronic equipment, and if so, why? > > I mean I would think that the would not be any effect. After all, > electronic equipment do not rely on earths magnetic field in some way. > How would they? > > Or would there be some effect on electronic equipment if the flip > happened in less than 30 seconds? > > Thanks in advance, Some people would have to turn their televisions off and on at the mains, so that they get degaussed. A number of perfectly good TVs would get put out for refuse collection, from where they could be recycled by those in the know. Sylvia.
From: Archimedes' Lever on 30 Dec 2009 19:30 On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:31:17 +1100, Sylvia Else <sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote: >JJ wrote: >> Hi >> >> this has perhaps been asked before(?) >> >> Apologies in that case. >> >> What I wanted to ask is, if earths magnetic pole now would manage to >> flip in a really quick timespan (let's say less than 5 minutes), would >> that have any effect on electronic equipment, and if so, why? >> >> I mean I would think that the would not be any effect. After all, >> electronic equipment do not rely on earths magnetic field in some way. >> How would they? >> >> Or would there be some effect on electronic equipment if the flip >> happened in less than 30 seconds? >> >> Thanks in advance, > >Some people would have to turn their televisions off and on at the >mains, so that they get degaussed. > >A number of perfectly good TVs would get put out for refuse collection, >from where they could be recycled by those in the know. > >Sylvia. The number of dopes that still have CRTs by that time all deserve whatever cluelessness they have at the time. The rest of us will be just fine display wise.
From: Sylvia Else on 30 Dec 2009 20:42
Archimedes' Lever wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:31:17 +1100, Sylvia Else > <sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote: > >> JJ wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> this has perhaps been asked before(?) >>> >>> Apologies in that case. >>> >>> What I wanted to ask is, if earths magnetic pole now would manage to >>> flip in a really quick timespan (let's say less than 5 minutes), would >>> that have any effect on electronic equipment, and if so, why? >>> >>> I mean I would think that the would not be any effect. After all, >>> electronic equipment do not rely on earths magnetic field in some way. >>> How would they? >>> >>> Or would there be some effect on electronic equipment if the flip >>> happened in less than 30 seconds? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >> Some people would have to turn their televisions off and on at the >> mains, so that they get degaussed. >> >> A number of perfectly good TVs would get put out for refuse collection, >>from where they could be recycled by those in the know. >> Sylvia. > > > The number of dopes that still have CRTs by that time all deserve > whatever cluelessness they have at the time. > > The rest of us will be just fine display wise. By what time. The OP didn't specify when this hypothetical event might occur. Could be tomorrow. CRT TVs work fine. There's nothing much to be gained by replacing them before they break. Sylvia. |