South Atlantic Anomaly

[hexagon]

Weirdness in the South Atlantic... (no, not the Fish Hoek valley this time)

Interestingly, burned African villages have recorded the history of previous fluctuations.

 

[Gordon_R]

I would expect this in the Natural Sciences sub-forum.

 

[rietrot]

This can go down a conspiracy rabbit hole a bit. But I'm thinking it's linked to the grand solar minimum.

 

[Mortymoose]

..... and there I thought the bonfires I was making on the barren Namib beaches had an influence...

 

[MrGray]

This can go down a conspiracy rabbit hole a bit. But I'm thinking it's linked to the grand solar minimum.

You beat me to it. But it’s not clear how closely correlated these are - my understanding is that this magnetic anomaly has been growing steadily for a very long time and the current solar minimum is fairly recent?

 

[Gordon_R]

More likely related to magnetic polar wandering perhaps:

Scientists explain magnetic pole's wanderings

The North Magnetic Pole has been racing across the top of the world, from Canada towards Siberia.

www.bbc.com

 

[Supervan II]

Should be called the South African Anomaly.

It certainly affects some people's brains too, particularly manifesting itself by individuals making rash, ludicrous and unjust decisions without any valid justification whatsoever ...

 

[Grant]

I would expect this in the Natural Sciences sub-forum.

SURPRISE !!!!!

 

[ForceFate]

I would expect this in the Natural Sciences sub-forum.

I agree the mods should move it before it's trolled or politicised.

 

[Gordon_R]

SURPRISE !!!!!

The News forum has replaced the Off Topic forum. All the actual news is now in the Covid forum...

 

[Polymathic]

I didn't know any pile shift events happened when humans were around

 

[Techne]

Look on the bright side. If the poles swop then the northern hemisphere will have a rugby world cup winner again.

 

[GreGorGy]

The poles are gonna switch - seeing as 2020 is already a write-off, we may as well get that **** out the way too.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Look on the bright side. If the poles swop then the northern hemisphere will have a rugby world cup winner again.

The poles are gonna switch - seeing as 2020 is already a write-off, we may as well get that **** out the way too.