(27 April 2013, 08:43)Scythe13 Wrote: The pole shift is currently a minor thing. So I'm not too worried about that.
I'm more concerned with the changes an EMP might have to a compass. It might do nothing, but I'm not taking that risk. Plus being able to navigate by the stars is cool!
I would suspect that an EMP, as unlikely as that is to happen, would reverse the polarity of the compass.
Back in the olden days of the 1970s when I first began prepping, EMP from a nuke event was one of the normal expectations of the cold war era. We were taught that the polarity would reverse on magnets and batteries exposed to the event.
The procedure was simple back then, north would be south on the compass needle and one disconnected the car battery, push started the vehicle, then hooked the cables up in reverse. Pos would be the new neg... You charged it for an hour and drove away, if there was anything left to drive to.
Not enough computers and electronics to worry over back then and hardly anything in a vehicle to go off course.
The rapid movement of the poles is suspected to be due to our overdue polar reversal. We have gone double the normal time for the event. Not to fear, since the shift usually takes several hundred to a thousand years, which is about right with the present 40k per year rate of change.
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