Monitors -- Try this yourself

[mcgrude]

Turn your monitor upside down ( put it on its top stand up )

The image becomes somewhat distorted. I read somewhere this is due to the earth's magnetic field. The same article said monitors have to ba adjusted at the factory for being north or south of the equator.

Strange.

[joker_927]

Sounds cool, but I don't think I am gong to put the most expensive part of my computer up side down simply to watch it get disoriented.

[originel]

interesting.

i learned in my physics class today that the earth's poles switch every few thousand years (they've found evidence in teh atlantic ridge...iron filings from the lava that cooled in the rock show wich direction the field was directed). think of what that would do to a monitor

[Brainchild]

never heard of that,

[mcgrude]

Originally posted by originel
interesting.

i learned in my physics class today that the earth's poles switch every few thousand years (they've found evidence in teh atlantic ridge...iron filings from the lava that cooled in the rock show wich direction the field was directed). think of what that would do to a monitor

Think about what that would do to navigation and migration patterns!

[mcgrude]

Originally posted by joker_927
Sounds cool, but I don't think I am gong to put the most expensive part of my computer up side down simply to watch it get disoriented.

True, but it goes away as soon as you put it right side up.

[OuTpaTienT]

Originally posted by originel
interesting.

i learned in my physics class today that the earth's poles switch every few thousand years (they've found evidence in teh atlantic ridge...iron filings from the lava that cooled in the rock show wich direction the field was directed). think of what that would do to a monitor

Forget the monitor...that could screw up all kinds of things. Possibly drastically change weather and climate conditions, ocean currents, who knows. And depending on how long it took to flip, we might find ourselves with no magnetic field for a short time there...and no magnetic field means we die. Or more technically, we fry. Thanks to our sun's deadly radiation.

I can just see it now, there's people outside melting and bubbling on the sidewalk and originel is at his computer saying "damn, my monitor doesn't work!"

[mcgrude]

There is evidence that the magnetic poles have moved in recent history :

http://www.geolab.nrcan.gc.ca/geomag/e%5Fnmpole.html

[jerrygarcia]

STOP IT!!!! You're scaring me.

[mcgrude]

Oh don't worry this happens all the time, geologically, just not significantly within the span of western civilization.

[ClubMed]

Originally posted by originel
the earth's poles switch every few thousand years

You mean I have to buy a new monitor every few thousand years? That sucks!.

[JayMan]

CM, instead of buying a new monitor just flip it upside down

JayMan

[ClubMed]

Ah ok..phew..thanks JayMan

[JayMan]

hehe no probs

JayMan

[RamonGTP]

Originally posted by joker_927
Sounds cool, but I don't think I am gong to put the most expensive part of my computer up side down simply to watch it get disoriented.

LOL, I think I too will adopt jokers views on this topic.

[Theophylact]

There's a science-fiction movie -- "The Core" -- soon to come out, about an attempt to prevent a geomagnetic-field reversal.

Here's some poop on the real thing.

[Dokeman]

lol..just flip it upside down every few thousand years...haha

[ClubMed]

cool link Theo, looks like an interesting idea for a movie.

[shahani]

On a similiar note, I read somewhere that if all the 1 billion Chinese stood on the Great Wall of China and jumped off at the same time, an earthquake would result in North America after 2 days.

Don't believe it myself, though.

You can't fit that many people on the Great Wall and think of the logistics nightmare in asking them to jump in unison. Difficult to coordinate 1000 people let alone 1000 million.

[osprey4]

Originally posted by ClubMed
You mean I have to buy a new monitor every few thousand years? That sucks!.

ROFLMAO!!!

Talk about planned obsolescence. Now in addition to upgrading your CPU, RAM, video card, etc, you gotta get a new monitor every time the freakin' magnetic poles change.

Did you ever hear that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made sctructure visible from the moon? That's bunk, too.