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View Poll Results: Did you know the Earth's magnetic field reversed??
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WTF, we have a magnetic field?!?! 2 4.44%
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Old April 30th, 2007, 09:53 PM
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How many people even know how to use a compass? Now everyone seems to rely on GPS. You would think that with GPS it would be harder to get lost. In a report I saw once the opposite was true. People were going out into the wilderness with no compass and were relying only on GPS to navigate. People were getting lost and required rescuing more often than before GPS.


I agree wholeheartedly. I have GPS available on my cell phone and never use it-- GPS is a good way to pinpoint oneself on a map, but who carried freakin' maps around? Only those losers who have compasses on them as well as GPS receivers.

For everyone else, it tells them with high precision that they are still lost.
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I love my GPS if you drive around Louisiana as much as I do
and with all the signs STILL down you would get one too.
Every crew member I have has bought one out of their own pocket to have one.
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Just try using GPS in the woods!!
The problem is when people rely entirely on GPS without understanding its limitations.
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well i just learned about this in my high school physics class.
but does anyone know why this happens?
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Just try using GPS in the woods!!
The problem is when people rely entirely on GPS without understanding its limitations.

GPS works off satilite it does not care woods or ocean the limitation is in PEOPLE.
D1 said I always carry maps and compass,but I also carry water, food, a lighter and a cell phone with GPS maps, 911 locater and a camera.
I constantly preach being prepared, and the first thing is to think before acting.
But truthfully if you dropped me anywhere in the world naked (evil mind picture ha ha )
I could figure out where I was and in which direction to go, what to do, and how to SURVIVE.

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GPS works off satilite it does not care woods or ocean the limitation is in PEOPLE.
D1 said I always carry maps and compass,but I also carry water, food, a lighter and a cell phone with GPS maps, 911 locater and a camera.
I constantly preach being prepared, and the first thing is to think before acting.
But truthfully if you dropped me anywhere in the world naked (evil mind picture ha ha )
I could figure out where I was and in which direction to go, what to do, and how to SURVIVE.


Haha! See, I told you guys, what a total loser!

Oh, and CY? Tell us a story!
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I am 1 out of 7 people so far that didnt know this.....glad someone shared the secret.
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Don't feel too bad Ramses; the rumors I've been hearing say that the next time we hit solar max, it's going to be a really MAJOR maximum. As in history-making maximum. As in you just might see the AB even that far south.


Hey, I know I'm late, but I missed this hehe.

You know, I have been reading alot lately about the Solar Cycle. The cycle has been gaining in intensity over the past century. So I guess this doesn't surprise me. Its going to get pretty hot around here in 2011. Dime to a dollar, we're going to hear about how we've killed ourselves with our lust for horsepower.

But its like something from a sci fi novel.. the sun getting hotter and hotter, inexplicably before its time...


And you know what, I think I just came up with a new spin on the solar sci fi idea... ^_^ *writes it down*
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