"MAJOR POLE SHIFT HAPPENED AND NO ONE SAYS BOO", all you people that made fun of Ted owe him an apology, he was correct and was doing what all good surveyors must do, pay attention to what evidence is before him.
So,
sicilian cowboy
Deral of Lawton
Mark Mayer
Boundary Lines
Joe the Surveyor
Jim in AZ
6th PM
RFB
Steve Gardner
John Hamilton
MightyMoe
David Livingstone
RADAR
clearcut
James Fleming
FL/GA, PLS
Andy J
Both R Old
NorthernSurveyor
sinc
are you willing to apologize to Mr. Dura and all that agreed with him?
TDD was talking about an actual shift of the position of the sun in the sky due to a shift of the poles.
The latest thread was about a shift of the magnetic north pole. A shifting magnetic north pole is not really news; it's always in motion.
Ok, well that's what I get for posting before my second cup of coffee.
Carry on.
It is constantly in gradual change. Earth's orientation relative to the sun, as a whole, changes because of lots of things like orbital eccentricity, gradual change in the plane of the ecliptic, precession, nutation. And beyond that, the location of surface land masses relative to the axis and geographic poles is constantly shifting because of crustal motion. But it's not as though we have seen or expect to find radical change where we wake up one morning and find Greenland in the tropics.
The news, if there is any, is that the magnetic pole shift seems to have speeded up in recent decades.
The moon is what keeps the earth axis from really swinging wildly all over the place.
i post twice on the pole shift and once on my observed planitary shift--the sun this year is way off from the last 10 yrs, as i said i have a solar power system with a tracker that i set to run automatically and adjust for optimum power from sunup to sun down--i had marked the seasonal adjustments on my horizontal and vertical bars on my solar array rack, these settings have been good since 1999, i took some lightening strikes over the years and reset the array by those 1999 settings every time, this year the sun is way off its way farther south than ever my morning sun and evening sun rises and sets roughly 15 degrees farther south !!! no i didn't make this up i have about 1 hr less sun gathering time--i also have a ton of haze early and late that i rarely had especially up here at near 8800 ft-- tis a puzzlement--tdd
> no i didn't make this up i have about 1 hr less sun gathering time--i also have a ton of haze early and late that i rarely had especially up here at near 8800 ft-- tis a puzzlement--tdd
Maybe your eyesight is getting worse as you get older, and it just seems darker... 🙂
Seriously, though, an actual pole shift would have wreaked havoc with our GPS systems, unless all GPS satellites somehow managed to shift their orbits exactly in sync with the pole shift. Yet we're all still using GPS...
> The moon is what keeps the earth axis from really swinging wildly all over the place.
Amazing what a hunk of cheese can do.
We've been talking about the magnetic pole "creep" for years. (on the old board)
Not quite the same as the sun rising in a different spot.
Research the analemma.
:coffee:
Yeah I got that 1 day, 23 hours, 13 min. ago.
