@amokriinprolgiid3409

6 months ago

To be clear, that 300,000 years is an average, not a rule. And some facts to help you sleep at night, 1) scientists are not fully in agreement as to the full extent of the effects of the poles flipping. Some believe that like this short suggests, it might be horrifically life changing, making sunlight far more dangerous, making animals very confused, and destroying electronic devices. On the other hand, many others believe the flip will be far more subtle and the differences may be almost unnoticeable on the ground level, leaving electronics still working, animals not quite as confused, and only slightly more likely to get sunburned. 2) There's not really a big concensus on how much the magnetic field will weaken, some believing it will be 90% weaker, others thinking it may be far less weak. 3) The one thing they do seem to agree on is that it will take quite a long time to flip, thousands of years even, and most seem to believe that it won't be happening anytime in our lifetimes. 4) This has happened numerous times in the last give or take 20 million years, and we're all still here and alive, so it couldn't be world ending. The extra solar radiation will more than likely just cause some skin irritation in long sessions of exposure. 5) We have time. Even if the flip ends up messing with the technology we CURRENTLY have, by the time the flip starts, humanity will have had plenty of time to develop our tech to still work during the flip. It's also supposed to be a slow and gradual process over the course of thousands of years, which would mean that it's not like all the entire world's internet and power grids are suddenly going to explode and stop working at any moment. If anything, people will likely notice some interference early on and engineers will no doubt work out ways to correct or compensate for this interference.

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