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"Last week a government minister in the Northern Territory, spruiking a plan to
make Darwin “the datacentre capital of the globe”, suggested it might be a good
idea to pump out groundwater to keep Earth’s spin steady. If we don’t, she
said, we might risk “flipping the poles again”.
Is she right? And what’s she even talking about?
As a palaeomagnetist – someone who studies Earth’s magnetic field and reads
ancient rocks to understand how it was in the past – let me walk you through
what it means for Earth’s poles to flip, what groundwater has to do with it,
and why there is absolutely nothing to worry about."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
