+Alan2 Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Scientists estimate that 10% of the switch has already occurred in the last 150 years and may suddenly and totally flip sometime in the next 2,000 years!! The last one occurred 780,000 years ago. North will be south and south will be north. Worse, as it's happening, there may be many norths in various pockets depending on where on the earth you are. Cachers will be wandering around bumping into each other and stumbling over caches they weren't looking for. Vista owners will be doing the little double circle dance as they try to keep calibrating their compass. Regular compass users will be constantly adjusting their declination as the north arrow keeps moving for no reason at all. Meanwhile, compass users without the adjustment feature will wander around not noticing the difference and being lost as usual. Offset caches using degrees will have to be recalculated. Worse still is that north may disappear completely during the switch rendering useless my Vista's on-board compass. I asked Garmin if they're offering a field reversal rebate just in case. They said no as they're working on a program fix. I'm not convinced! I'm searching around to downgrade my unit to a Legend! Quote
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Alan, I think it's already happened. I went to sleep in Kansas and woke up at the "north" pole. 8 to 10 inches of snow as far as the GPSr can see! I'll post my coords if you can send a St. Bernard with a keg of rum my way! Quote
+EraSeek Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 This is why you always want to use TRUE NORTH not MAGNETIC NORTH. Use the GPS fix not the inbuilt compass. No problem. Quote
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Actually, this does bring up an interesting story. A few miles west of me used to be a "Minuteman" missile silo. It was destroyed back in the '80s during disarmament days. However, I was there sometime afterwards with a friend, and our compass just went haywire whenever we'd get within 50 feet of the thing. I'm sure it was some sort of jammer that was used to hide the silo or confuse detection devices. If the snow melts off, I'll go back out there with a GPSr and see if it has any type of effect on that. Could be interesting. Ok, a bit off topic, but I've already got cabin fever....guess I'll go out and see if I can plow the driveway and get the car out. Stupid snow plows piled 3 feet of snow at the end of the drive, and I don't have my 4wd anymore.....DANG, I miss it! Experience tells me that Toyota Camry's don't make good 4-wheelers....not near enough ground clearance! Quote
+Renegade Knight Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 It's not the reveral that's going to get to me. It's that my metal fillings are going to feel funny. Quote
gm100guy Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 (edited) Thanks for the information. I just thought I had to many beers last night to give me my headache this morning. But it is the 2 plates in my head fighting to find north. Edited December 13, 2003 by gm100guy Quote
Wanderingson Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 It's all a government conspiracy. It's time to break out the tin foil hats folks. None us us are unprotected. Hey wait Compass ROse just revved up the microwave again. Why is everything getting blurry? Ijlkjlkdjslkjlfkjfwhrwkj Quote
+ZoomZoom Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Scientists estimate that 10% of the switch has already occurred in the last 150 years and may suddenly and totally flip sometime in the next 2,000 years!! The last one occurred 780,000 years ago. North will be south and south will be north. Worse, as it's happening, there may be many norths in various pockets depending on where on the earth you are. Cachers will be wandering around bumping into each other and stumbling over caches they weren't looking for. Vista owners will be doing the little double circle dance as they try to keep calibrating their compass. Regular compass users will be constantly adjusting their declination as the north arrow keeps moving for no reason at all. Meanwhile, compass users without the adjustment feature will wander around not noticing the difference and being lost as usual. Offset caches using degrees will have to be recalculated. Worse still is that north may disappear completely during the switch rendering useless my Vista's on-board compass. I asked Garmin if they're offering a field reversal rebate just in case. They said no as they're working on a program fix. I'm not convinced! I'm searching around to downgrade my unit to a Legend! LOL! You have to be making this up. Without north, where will my feet point too? Quote
+EraSeek Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 (edited) Great News! The Magnetic North Pole is headed NORTH! at about 40km per year, and moving faster. Maybe all you Mag North duds will get it right yet. Since 1831: Edited December 14, 2003 by EraSeek Quote
+ironman114 Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Scientists estimate that 10% of the switch has already occurred in the last 150 years and may suddenly and totally flip sometime in the next 2,000 years!! The last one occurred 780,000 years ago. North will be south and south will be north. had a compass once that was backwards. shoulda kept it for this occasion. Quote
martmann Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Will all my refrigerator magnets fall off? Quote
+briansnat Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 had a compass once that was backwards. shoulda kept it for this occasion. I have one of those. A Brunton that was a giveaway from the NRA. It's a $20 compass in the stores, so I thought it was a pretty nice freebie...until I found out that red pointed south. It caused me to really mess up one of the clues for my caches. I thought something was wrong, but told myself " trust your compass, it doesn't lie". Well I guess I should hang on to it now. Quote
+DustyJacket Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Keep the Vista so you can fnd grid North. Sell the soon (1000 years) to be worthless compass. Whill they be making AA batteries in 1000 years? Quote
+Breaktrack Posted December 16, 2003 Posted December 16, 2003 Yeah, yeah, the sky is falling, the sky is falli Quote
martmann Posted December 18, 2003 Posted December 18, 2003 had a compass once that was backwards. shoulda kept it for this occasion. I have one of those. A Brunton that was a giveaway from the NRA. It's a $20 compass in the stores, so I thought it was a pretty nice freebie...until I found out that red pointed south. It caused me to really mess up one of the clues for my caches. I thought something was wrong, but told myself " trust your compass, it doesn't lie". Well I guess I should hang on to it now. Good thing the NRA wasn't giving out these: Quote
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