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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeriar" data-source="post: 801450" data-attributes="member: 4116">I was under the impression that it was the Inner Core getting started again, my apologies.Wouldn't heat differences form between the poles and equator, and begin the process again with more energy than a measely thousand megatons ever could?Sorry, had to pick <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-p" title="Stick out tongue    :-p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-p" />The Armageddon quip is true, and suspense of disbelief is always necessary, but understand it seems to be easier if you go to a different world where these changes in rules are par for the course.More like half-million <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-p" title="Stick out tongue    :-p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-p" />  We're on an unusually long stint right now at seven hundred thousand years.  Also, though the overall field collapses, the field strength actually stays the same - it's just confined to countless local eddies that conflict with eachother.This process is occuring now, which is where we get the 'half life of the Earth's magnetic field' from the Creationists :-/As I said, I was under the impression it was the inner core since stopping the outer core would just be...  weird.  Way weird, I would expect volcanic more than storm activity as temperature differences built up, although I suppose, that would be over geological time, and that just kind of ruins the suspense in a movie <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />I have two problems with people claiming this, though1: The Inuit and residents of Antartica live under similar conditions, as far as solar storms are concerned.  If they could survive, for so long, why couldn't the rest of us?2: The reversal has happened several times within the period of human evolution, so 'everyone on the planet is dead' seems a little extreme to me.It is true, however, that the Toba Supervolcano (if that is really what caused the 'bottleneck', of course, but I'm inclined to agree) would have eliminated any genetic trace such a weather event would leave.  Not to mention Yellowstone erupted before the last shift as well.---Regardless, you've given me a bit more confidence in the movie - I may get the DVD - I don't go to the theatres much <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  Congratulations and thank you.As for killing Orcs in my basement, a part of that is actually tied to this - sometimes I just wanna toss all this real-world crap out the window and play God with my own rules, and see how I do.  For some reason I do better with that as a premise <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />And for faster-than-light travel, at our current rate we will exceed the speed of light Circa ~2200.  Now, if we can beat time dilation and REALLY do it, that would be something.(You can go as fast as you want, a trillion times the speed of light, or whatever, but the rest of the universe still sees you plodding along at .9999999... of c)</blockquote>

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