Planetary DOOM

[AtW]

Damn it. I have become the thing I hate. *sad face*

Vetran?

[OwlHoot]

Doesn't sound too bad. At least you get a nice tan...

Exactly, and look on the bright side, when it happens again there may be another explosion of cave art!

[ladymuck]

No its because you're female.

Are men better wired to read maps or is it a tired cliche?

And men are just geeks, when I was stuck in traffic I used to get my map book out and plan journeys to parts of the country I'd never been to. Hate Sat Navs.

I don't like sat navs either but will occasionally use the the function on my phone. I have often planned trips with a map book or, more recently, online maps. I would write out the key junctions I need to take and town names to keep an eye out for and sellotape it to the dashboard.

[ladymuck]

It is...

Dammit. I have become the thing I hate

[AtW]

So what you're saying is that it's not my lack of ability to figure out what direction I'm heading in, its my compass showing the wrong information?

It is...

[Gibbon]

So what you're saying is that it's not my lack of ability to figure out what direction I'm heading in, its my compass showing the wrong information?

No its because you're female.

Are men better wired to read maps or is it a tired cliche?

And men are just geeks, when I was stuck in traffic I used to get my map book out and plan journeys to parts of the country I'd never been to. Hate Sat Navs.

[ladymuck]

So what you're saying is that it's not my lack of ability to figure out what direction I'm heading in, its my compass showing the wrong information?

[Paralytic]

Does this mean I'd have to buy a new compass?

DOOM indeed!

[BrilloPad]

Doesn't sound too bad. At least you get a nice tan...

[AtW]

“ Magnetic disaster ‘that wiped out Neanderthals’ is due a repeat

The world reached a turning point towards the tail end of the Stone Age. In Europe our closest evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, vanished while in Australia every animal larger than a kangaroo disappeared. Our species displayed a creative explosion of cave art.

A new study argues that this can be linked to one event — a sudden collapse of the Earth’s magnetic field, which left the planet vulnerable to a blistering surge of cosmic radiation.

The research, published in the journal Science, points out that we are overdue a repeat. It looks at the most recent reversal of our magnetic field, which surrounds the world like an invisible balloon, defending us from a barrage of deadly particles emitted by the sun.

About 42,000 years ago the poles flipped and magnetic north essentially became south. The magnetic field, generated by the churning of molten iron in Earth’s outer core, faded to 6 per cent of its usual strength. The sun began to emit intense bursts of radiation.“

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m...peat-grfsx92qg

Better get more fridge magnets, or even better - get lead padded fridge before it’s too la