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mega geophysics

Is Earth's Magnetic Field Failing Us?

Forget the ozone layer, global warming, and all of the other things environmentalists whine about: the one thing holding life together here on Earth is its powerful magnetic field. And for the past 150 years that humans have been measuring it, our only line of defense against deadly cosmic and solar radiation has been mysteriously weakening. Now, new research says the situation is even more dire than we thought. Looking back 2,000 years into the past, geophysicists have calculated that the field's been weakening the entire time, and that we've got about 500 years to go before it's gone entirely. More »

9:32 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Michael Reilly
4,637 views, 62 comments

Latest by n/a: >>If that's true, in a couple of generations global warming from CO2 in the atmosphere might be the least of our worries.<< Let's start with global warming, before try to solve problems with magnetic fields. Srsly... if we even can't manage more »

retro futurism

In the 1970s, You May Wear Your Phone - Thanks to Radiation! (1960)

All those vintage "How We'll Live In The Future" articles rarely mentioned anything that could be construed as a cell phone. Microwave ovens, yes; online shopping, yes—but not the now ubiquitous cell phone. This 1960 ad for Radiation, Incorporated (yes, they've changed their name since then) is an exception—and it touches on GPS technology, too. Click through for a closer look at "The New Age of Communication." More »

1:20 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Lynn Peril
1,386 views, 5 comments