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Re: 2012, the End of the World?

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The london 2012 olympics logo looks like crap
What does it look like? Is it the thing that looks like it came out of malfunctioning paper shredder? In that case, it looks like an omen to the end of earth as we know it! Poor Brits!
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>> Some astronomers say that it might trigger a shift of the earth's magnetic poles,

OK. Fields decay with 1/r^2 ... so ... 1/light-squared-years is very very small.
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Some astronomers say that it might trigger a shift of the earth's magnetic poles

The earth's magnetic field is constantly in shift. It's flipped completely many times in the past.
It is indeed predicted that we're due another flip, and the magnetic field does seem to be weakening in places, indicating a pre-flip condition coming about.
But AFAIK there's no way to predict when it's going to happen, certainly nothing as accurate as a specific period in a specific year.
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Wouldn't that also include a shift in the rotational axis of earth? In other words, Holland could end up near the equator and you could be living in a tropical paradise!
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The crappy logo:



lol they had to ban the advert because it gave people seizures
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Yeah... I can see that effecting the earth more than fempto powered fields.
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On the London 2012 Olympic logo: Oh God, it is the paper shredder logo!

On the earth rotation change: I can see jwenting buying Hawaiian shirts already!
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>The crappy logo:
>lol they had to ban the advert because it gave people seizures

It's positively disgusting... Are the trying to make it look like graffiti?
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yes, actually, they are
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Made even more horrid by it's apparent cost of £400,000
Gotta wonder what was in the reject pile.

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