Magnetic Pole Shift - A Doomsday Scenario? #shorts #kurzgesagt

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Earth's magnetic field is going to flip. So we're better off knowing what that means for us as well, when it plays the UNO reverse card on us.
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700+ minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain:

[spooky.-]

At this point Kurzgesagt should rename their channel Daily Dose of things I need to worried about now.

[TheSlashingSkeleton]

"Alright 1 last short before bed"

*The short in question:*

[corbinwilson]

Imagine we’ve been in the weaker magnetic field stage for a couple thousand years and the magnetic field is actually much stronger than what we think it is as a consequence.

[Pedro-tljg]

Oh nice we're 300 thousand years overdue on the magnetic pole shift, thanks for letting me know. I needed that.

[preferablyanonymous]

Kurzgesagt shorts might be the best thing that has happened to yt shorts for a long time

[gibn]

"We only know that its happened every 300, 000 years, and that its currently 480, 000 years late on the next shift"

[YuriTXofCS]

NOW THEY'RE LEARNING HOW TO MAKE A LOOP

[JtkwIguess]

When you're done watching and the internet goes out 💀

[bwgzgen]

"You seems bit red, are you having a fever?"
"No, cancer."
"Relatable"

[garg]

Good news: It’s not a doomsday scenario

Bad news: It’s gonna last a lot longer than just one day

[creativecreeper]

I love how they can't have a video without a burning duck most of the time

[dqdq]

"we don't know when Yellowstone will erupt but we know it blows every 600k years and it last erupted 640k years ago"

[OzialLexus]

Kurzgesagt be dropping that good news as if anyone who's watching this today could last thousands of years to outlive our magnetic field's emo phase.

[amokriinprolgiid]

To be clear, that 300, 000 years is an average, not a rule. And some facts to help you sleep at night, 1) scientists are not fully in agreement as to the full extent of the effects of the poles flipping. Some believe that like this short suggests, it might be horrifically life changing, making sunlight far more dangerous, making animals very confused, and destroying electronic devices. On the other hand, many others believe the flip will be far more subtle and the differences may be almost unnoticeable on the ground level, leaving electronics still working, animals not quite as confused, and only slightly more likely to get sunburned. 2) There's not really a big concensus on how much the magnetic field will weaken, some believing it will be 90% weaker, others thinking it may be far less weak. 3) The one thing they do seem to agree on is that it will take quite a long time to flip, thousands of years even, and most seem to believe that it won't be happening anytime in our lifetimes. 4) This has happened numerous times in the last give or take 20 million years, and we're all still here and alive, so it couldn't be world ending. The extra solar radiation will more than likely just cause some skin irritation in long sessions of exposure. 5) We have time. Even if the flip ends up messing with the technology we CURRENTLY have, by the time the flip starts, humanity will have had plenty of time to develop our tech to still work during the flip. It's also supposed to be a slow and gradual process over the course of thousands of years, which would mean that it's not like all the entire world's internet and power grids are suddenly going to explode and stop working at any moment. If anything, people will likely notice some interference early on and engineers will no doubt work out ways to correct or compensate for this interference.

[missing_textures]

The magnetic poll is just me flipping my pillow while I sleep 💀

[zaaaaworld]

Kurzgesagt casually dropping anxiety attacks

[LeahPineda-vyhl]

Bro the kids are panicking right now 💀

[Johny-ik]

I swear science teachers need to just put on this dude's videos there is no way in a gazillion years any teacher will be able to explain science like this dude

[checkmateoclock]

Can't wait for Earth to do a flip and get 10-10-10 on the scoreboards

[ftfxhailstorm]

Now I can get a small dose of overwhelming dread in 60 seconds or less.