Solar storms spell trouble for GPS

Then we need to resurrect the Tate Compass Company, who installed the
magnets in their compasses backwards so that North was South, East was West.

This started the old saying, "He who has a Tate's is lost".

Jim


What this program stated and I had read it elsewhere, is the magnetic core
within the earth had flipped every 200K to 700K years. Geologist know how
to figure this out from core samples. They said the last one was over 700K
years ago. The north magnetic pole (as we know it) flips to the south
pole.

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Regards, Ross
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"RST Engineering" wrote in message ...
: Then we need to resurrect the Tate Compass Company, who installed the
: magnets in their compasses backwards so that North was South, East was West.
:
: This started the old saying, "He who has a Tate's is lost".
:
: Jim
:
:
:

My daughter says that joke should die....


;-)

Commenting on future reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles, Jim Weir wrote,
Then we need to resurrect the Tate Compass Company, who installed the
magnets in their compasses backwards so that North was South, East was
West.

This started the old saying, "He who has a Tate's is lost".

Good one! I thought I'd heard then all, but this one's new to me.