2006-09-04 06:58:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
It will probably be several thousand years from now, and the effects will be slight: possibly a small increase in radiation levels at the earth's surface, and a reduction in auroral displays until the field strengthens in the opposite direction. Aside from that, compasses won't work.
2006-09-04 07:02:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the attraction of trying to find the answer to a question about something that may or may not happen so far in the future that not only will none of us nor any of our great-great grand children's' great great grand children will ever see, but our descendants will by that time not only have mutated into something we wouldn't even be able to envisage but would be living (if living it be) in a different part of the universe, and that's always assuming that there will still be a universe!
(and isn't that an unbelievably long sentence!)
2006-09-04 14:22:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will probably reverse some time in the next 100,000 years. The reduction or distortion of the Van Allen belts is expected to increase the background cosmic radiation, and hence the rate of natural plant and animal mutations.
2006-09-04 14:04:35 · answer #3 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is overdue by a few hundred thousand years now. Apparently you will get to see aurora boreali in the sky ,not just the northern and southern pole areas.
Planes will get lost.
2006-09-04 14:40:44 · answer #4 · answered by Ricardo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once every few millennia. It has catastrophic effects. It has almost coincided with the Ice Ages in the past.
2006-09-04 14:21:30 · answer #5 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE POLES WILL REVERSE AT SOME TIME AND HAVE DONE IN THE PAST IT IS OVERDUE FOR A CHANGE . YOU WILL NEED A NEW COMPASS
2006-09-04 14:20:11 · answer #6 · answered by Warwickwolf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth may change its shape from up to down.
2006-09-05 05:39:31 · answer #7 · answered by eitemad_eitemad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be a while before that happens. Maybe hundreds of thousands of years. Human beings will be upside down.
2006-09-04 14:02:43 · answer #8 · answered by worldneverchanges 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any time now (now being right now to a few hundred thousand years - insignificant in geological terms)
2006-09-04 14:11:16 · answer #9 · answered by Peakey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in 200 million yrs time the humans' will perish.
2006-09-06 07:08:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋