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It is not a thing. This is crack-pottery at an insane level. From the intro: "We expect about 90 degree shift of the crust as planet-X passes earth's orbit on i

It is not a thing. This is crack-pottery at an insane level. From the intro: "We expect about 90 degree shift of the crust as planet-X passes earth's orbit on its way through our solar system. " As other comments mentions magnetic pole shift though, that is a thing and happens every so often, about every 0.1 to 1 million years, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

4ad 12y ago
Yes, geomagnetic pole shifting is not the apocalypse, and people who think so are either stupid or crackpots (or both), on the other hand that website does indeed contain a collection of marvellous, marvellous useful documents.
jpatokal 12y ago
From the site: > When will the Pole Shift occur? > Best we can tell it will occur between May 20 and Jun 12 in 2012. See the source Zetatalk clues, and Crop Circle clues that give this final result. Oops!
- Tloewald 12y ago
  Doomsday cults missing their deadlines never seem to suffer much harm.
  - Semiapies 12y ago
    Well, they'd suffer more if they hit their deadlines.
- untothebreach 12y ago
  Looks like they changed it to 17 Dec 2014: http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/-PS_Count-Down_Checklist_Worksheet_Template_2013.pdf http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/-PS_Count-Down_Checkli...
vacri 12y ago
To be pedantic, the survival for magnetic poles shifting is "go about life as normal". The magnetic poles are constantly shifting, just not very fast (~50km/year or so). Reversal would be a bit more dramatic, though...
- tjradcliffe 12y ago
  Motion of the poles has sped up quite dramatically in the past century. That 50 km/year is up from almost zero in the late 1800's and 15 km/year in the early 1900's. So it isn't entirely out there to worry a bit out reversal. Current thinking is that the Earth's magnetic field becomes multi-polar during reversals, but field strength won't dramatically diminish. So if it does happen, it'll complicate some things, and no doubt result in some economic activity, but won't be the end of the world.

4ad 12y ago

Yes, geomagnetic pole shifting is not the apocalypse, and people who think so are either stupid or crackpots (or both), on the other hand that website does indeed contain a collection of marvellous, marvellous useful documents.

jpatokal 12y ago

From the site: > When will the Pole Shift occur? > Best we can tell it will occur between May 20 and Jun 12 in 2012. See the source Zetatalk clues, and Crop Circle clues that give this final result. Oops!

Tloewald 12y ago
Doomsday cults missing their deadlines never seem to suffer much harm.
- Semiapies 12y ago
  Well, they'd suffer more if they hit their deadlines.
untothebreach 12y ago
Looks like they changed it to 17 Dec 2014: http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/-PS_Count-Down_Checklist_Worksheet_Template_2013.pdf http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/-PS_Count-Down_Checkli...

vacri 12y ago

To be pedantic, the survival for magnetic poles shifting is "go about life as normal". The magnetic poles are constantly shifting, just not very fast (~50km/year or so). Reversal would be a bit more dramatic, though...

tjradcliffe 12y ago
Motion of the poles has sped up quite dramatically in the past century. That 50 km/year is up from almost zero in the late 1800's and 15 km/year in the early 1900's. So it isn't entirely out there to worry a bit out reversal. Current thinking is that the Earth's magnetic field becomes multi-polar during reversals, but field strength won't dramatically diminish. So if it does happen, it'll complicate some things, and no doubt result in some economic activity, but won't be the end of the world.