Freeday wind-out,,,

wrapped up the week in the best way, ALONE at the shop, doing my real J.O.B.  FABRICATION,,, making the gates,,  One big tall drive gate, and a square tubed gate that we use for our wood fence.   That last,,  Heavy bastaches, but they will never sag like the old wood framed gates

Did more thinking on the subject matter from this mornings post.   BOB, weakening magnetic shields, reversing earth polarity,,,  especially that last,   Something about it aroused a memory of something from physics and I can not recall what exactly,,, only something about a spinning top and how some types will falter and ‘flip’ over.    Maybe someone can illuminate what I am trying to remember here.  

No matter though, I do recall the effect happens FAST.   If related, what we will see will be upon us with little more warning than what we have already concluded.   It may seem like it takes a lifetime to conclude, but in earth terms, a mere eyeblink.   Even so, I would imagine that it will still be fast in human terms as well.  months, not years or decades.  

but the longer lasting effects,,,  Navigation is going to be a complete disaster, especially for those animals that rely on magnetic grids: birds, fish, etc, for finding reproduction grounds.   Compass navigation for us two legged types is going to be FUBAR for quite awhile until the poles settle down.   And thats making the assumption they stay put and don’t do an instantaneous reversal BACK,,,

And thats assuming the field doesn’t grow so weak during the process, that we aren’t cooked alive by Mama-natures Microwave oven, also known as BOB (Big Orange Ball )   I would imagine that getting kicked back a century in tech is going to be the least of our worries at that stage.   Lord knows there is no way the current populations could be sustained on that level of technology.  

(and this last written as if I will be one of the survivors)   Of all the things I worry about the most in the above: the end of the Information Age.   We have so much available to us at the tip of our fingers (literally) currently and ALL of that could dissappear in the blink of an eye.  How many sites are backed up in analog form, not digital?   Think of the space needed.   I know I have terabytes of memory full of documents, books, recordings, music, videos, interviews, etc etc, and that storage unit is smaller than a soft cover novel.   To replicate that in analog form?  I would need to double my house size just for storage of it, with no room for anything else.   (note: I do have a lot of dead tree editions as well.  Especially those items that are older than me by decades; books on machining and other lost arts, things that will be of benefit when things go teats up.  At least those will still ‘work’ as designed.)

and my selections are such a small part of the information that is readily available to us currently.    That I have spent so much time watching Utoob vids the last couple of weeks, digging into strange topics,,,, All of that will be relegated to odd corners of the world,

or lost completely,,,

Think medieval times where the centers of knowledge were tucked away in far off monestaries, and passing that knowledge along was strictly limited to those with the means, or to become cloistered monks.   The rest of the world lived closer to the bone and pig ignorant.   That sort of world scares me: the guy that believes in his heart of hearts that everyone likes being educated as much as I do.  I know such is NOT the case, but that is the one illusion that holds me the tightest: that others wish to know as strongly as I do.

so much information, relegated to faulty memory, potentially warped by such, and eventually lost to time.    Much like other times long past where we have the relics, but no hard information about them and how they were made: just suppositions, educated guesstimates, and wild ass theories of alien intervention.  (and no real proofs for or against )

yeah, that shit scares me.   Knowing that if things break at that level, that this world as we know it will become some myth 4000 years down the line.  And you know the historians will get it wrong.

So tonight I am chilling out, trying to NOT think about such, enjoying the sounds of a lovely woman that utoob AI thought I should hear (and yes, her eyes decided me to give her a listen.)

enjoy.

Keep on livin’