Compasses now useless

[Sistema1927]

It's a good thing that GPS will still work, seeing that compasses are now useless.
Weather News - Pole flip puts Down Under on top

 

[glenwolde]

HaHa. April Fools.

 

[Mule Packer]

Oh swell. Never trusted GPS and have always had at least one compass in my saddle bags or pocket when I head into the back country. I guess I'm sunk now.

 

[M29since14]

“...Puts down under on top!” That’s a good one.

 

[s&wchad]

April fools story, but geomagnetic reversal is real. It’s happened throughout earths history and will happen again.

Pole Reversal Happens All The (Geologic) Time | NASA

According to the experts, magnetic north is moving about 20 miles/year towards Russia. They say the last time the poles actually “flipped” was about 780,000 years ago. They also say we’re long overdue for another.

NASA speculates that the reversal occurs over hundreds, maybe thousands of years and isn’t instantaneous. We don’t really know for certain how it happens, cause the critters that lived through the last one didn’t leave us a very good record. This is all we got...

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Oh swell. Never trusted GPS and have always had at least one compass in my saddle bags or pocket when I head into the back country. I guess I'm sunk now.

Not a problem, just turn the compass upside down.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[Donn]

Stick shifts, iron sights, and compasses. Old technology, all still work.

 

[lihpster]

Duh! You just put the compass in the forest. When moss starts to grow on it, that's the north side.

 

[SMSgt]

Oh swell. Never trusted GPS and have always had at least one compass in my saddle bags or pocket when I head into the back country. I guess I'm sunk now.

Just turn your map upside down and you'll be fine.

 

[Faulkner]

If you take the battery out of your compass and put it back in backwards it corrects the pole reversing issue.

(See Mom, I told you that electronics degree would pay off)

 

[Absalom]

Does this also reverse the toilets flushing in the opposite direction in the Northern and Southern hemispheres?

 

[lihpster]

So, do Santa and the elves and the reindeer have to move? And what about polar bears? I mean the penguins can just swim north. Or would it be south?

 

[jeffrefrig]

I think I missed something. Three years of 8th grade Science class gone down the tubes!

 

[rwsmith]

The way the pole is marching.......

The way the magnetic North is marching across the face of the globe north will soon be in Moscow.

I think it's a plan by Putin just to make us mad.

 

[Golddollar]

Does this also reverse the toilets flushing in the opposite direction in the Northern and Southern hemispheres?

Toto Toilets flush straight down. Install one in the house and you won't have to worry.

 

[LittleCooner]

So my red dot sigh does not work any more? ****.

 

[swsig]

I'm going for a high tech solution. I'm heading to Home Depot to buy an inverter generator.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

This is not a joke. Some time back handejector explained that we have mined all of the Earth's etherium for use in satellites and its loss is accelerating the north-south pole flip. Moreover, that's the whole point of the Green New Deal, to replenish the planet's etherium. Ask Lee Jarrett. He knows things.

 

[Racer X]

Stick shifts, iron sights, and compasses. Old technology, all still work.

Quadrajets

 

[rwsmith]

It's a scam.....

All you have to do is change the polarity on your toilets. Don't let them sell you a bill of goods.

 

[Drm50]

Compass reading would only be 180 degrees off. That would match the rest of the world today.

 

[rwsmith]

Just use them backwards........

Compass reading would only be 180 degrees off. That would match the rest of the world today.

....like everything else.

 

[rwsmith]

Remember the ads.......

Toto Toilets flush straight down. Install one in the house and you won't have to worry.

...for the toilet that flushed UP?