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07 Mar 2018, 2:13 am

apple Slice [a pepsi product]
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07 Mar 2018, 12:57 pm

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I know of an academic conducting serious research on based on the geo-magnetics of the earth. He thinks there is reasons for high levels of poltergeist and UFO activity and and localised changes in the earth's magnetic field leading to plasma discharge (UFOs ball lightning and ghosts)

Curiously the earth is due for a geo-magnetic polar flip very soon

gosh :o what will happen to us when this happens?


Possibly for a time we lose the earths magnetic field entirely, and cook in the suns radation.


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07 Mar 2018, 1:28 pm

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I know of an academic conducting serious research on based on the geo-magnetics of the earth. He thinks there is reasons for high levels of poltergeist and UFO activity and and localised changes in the earth's magnetic field leading to plasma discharge (UFOs ball lightning and ghosts)

Curiously the earth is due for a geo-magnetic polar flip very soon

gosh :o what will happen to us when this happens?


Possibly for a time we lose the earths magnetic field entirely, and cook in the suns radation.


No, it will slightly spin out of position and head south, if it makes it past the equator, it is not even perfectly North now anyway, the Geomagnetic pole is somewhere north in Canada, the Geographic North pole as we know it will stay where it is - but it won't be north. There are 5 different types of poles according to BBCs show QI.

(See what you did, you made me post here. I told you guys that a new thread about pole reversal would be interesting. Quite Interesting in fact :D)

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07 Mar 2018, 1:30 pm

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At the moment any discussion of personal experiences that fall within the bounds of the paranormal is put down (at best) to an over active imagination and (at worst) visual hallucinations

I can't erase any memory of the 70s without that particular reference point. I should say the lights were quite beautiful. watching them in the night sky from our house overlooking the Indian ocean.

The experience is almost identical to lights this video I found on youtube except I experienced them at 2-4am in the morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2U3eh172VQ


The first one is a form of ball lightining. The second one may be "swarm bots"...autonomous drones. However not necessarily. It's merely a possibility.

I discounted ball lightning because the balls seemed to move under some type of intelligent control


The one around 1:11 is ball lightening. The physics of ball lightning is poorly understood but the phenomena often originates from cloud formations like this.


Ball lightning is most certainly a natural phenomena, and not under intelligent control.


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07 Mar 2018, 1:49 pm

Ichinin wrote:
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auntblabby wrote:
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I know of an academic conducting serious research on based on the geo-magnetics of the earth. He thinks there is reasons for high levels of poltergeist and UFO activity and and localised changes in the earth's magnetic field leading to plasma discharge (UFOs ball lightning and ghosts)

Curiously the earth is due for a geo-magnetic polar flip very soon

gosh :o what will happen to us when this happens?


Possibly for a time we lose the earths magnetic field entirely, and cook in the suns radation.


No, it will slightly spin out of position and head south, if it makes it past the equator, it is not even perfectly North now anyway, the Geomagnetic pole is somewhere north in Canada, the Geographic North pole as we know it will stay where it is - but it won't be north. There are 5 different types of poles according to BBCs show QI.

(See what you did, you made me post here. I told you guys that a new thread about pole reversal would be interesting. Quite Interesting in fact :D)

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That's just a worst case hypothesis. There is plenty of evidence that these magnetic flips have occurred in the geologic past, and they do not appear to be linked with mass extinction events. The biggest problems this will likely cause will be with power grids and etc.


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07 Mar 2018, 6:53 pm

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Ball lightning is most certainly a natural phenomena, and not under intelligent control.

I think he means that whatever he saw in '78/'79 resembled the ball lightning in the video, except that it had intelligent looking movement patterns.


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07 Mar 2018, 7:26 pm

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The biggest problems this will likely cause will be with power grids and etc.


will this affect the grid as badly as an EMP event?



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09 Mar 2018, 12:36 pm

auntblabby wrote:
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The biggest problems this will likely cause will be with power grids and etc.


will this affect the grid as badly as an EMP event?


It could cause power surges or similar that would do things like burn out transformers or cause blackouts.


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09 Mar 2018, 6:12 pm

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The biggest problems this will likely cause will be with power grids and etc.


will this affect the grid as badly as an EMP event?


It could cause power surges or similar that would do things like burn out transformers or cause blackouts.

it is considered accepted wisdom, that if a nationwide grid failure happened, 90% of americans would be dead within a year.



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09 Mar 2018, 6:29 pm

Well, I wasn't born then, but from a British point of view it was miners' strikes, hooliganism and Maggie Thatcher.

At least the music was good.


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09 Mar 2018, 7:50 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
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Ball lightning is most certainly a natural phenomena, and not under intelligent control.

I think he means that whatever he saw in '78/'79 resembled the ball lightning in the video, except that it had intelligent looking movement patterns.

That about sums it up although it was 77/78 when I would wake up and watch these intelligently controlled "orbs" at 2-3am in the morning...interestingly I saw them on cloudless nights so that might also discount the ball lightning and laser pointer theory



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09 Mar 2018, 7:51 pm

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Well, I wasn't born then, but from a British point of view it was miners' strikes, hooliganism and Maggie Thatcher.

At least the music was good.

The early 80s were much better than the late 80s for music



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09 Mar 2018, 9:25 pm

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That's just a worst case hypothesis. There is plenty of evidence that these magnetic flips have occurred in the geologic past, and they do not appear to be linked with mass extinction events. The biggest problems this will likely cause will be with power grids and etc.


Make sure you know who you are quoting. *I* did not say anything about magnetic fields failing, causing a mass extinction event.

And i did not say that it has not happened before. I have watched discovery channel.


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13 Mar 2018, 3:30 pm

RainbowUnion wrote:
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The biggest problems this will likely cause will be with power grids and etc.


will this affect the grid as badly as an EMP event?


It could cause power surges or similar that would do things like burn out transformers or cause blackouts.


The pole shifts extremely slowly, it does not flip 180' in a milisecond. Plenty of time for the grid to adjust - if it even is affected in any way which i do not believe for a second that it does.


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19 Mar 2018, 8:44 am

What were politics like during this time period?



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What were politics like during this time period?

It was the Reagan era so there was a lot of muscular patriotism, flag waving and such. You did have opposition in music.
The nuclear freeze movement was popular. A nuclear freeze demonstration in New York's Central Park drew an estimated one million people at the time the largest American political demonstration in history(yes bigger then the much more touted anti Vietnam war protests)
You had Band-Aid, Live Aid, Farm Aid and other social activism fundraising concerts.

While similar to Trump's opponents Reagan's opponents thought he was dangerous and stupid many still liked him personally.
The zero sum game my opposition is my enemy was much less prominent. Reagan and the liberal Democratic leader of the house Tip O'Neil often cut deals over late night drinking sessions. They liked each other. This was not uncommon in Congress. The two parties called each other names during the day and cut deals over dinner and drinks at night.


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