They're supposed to shift at the end of the year? Mid-week or on the weekend so we can all get our bearings before going back to work..???

of this year? Ask whoever it is your question. You can also Google polar shift and find out there. The reality is that it's not all that likely to happen in any given individual's lifetime. At the same time, it could happen anytime. Why at the end of this year?

sent back to today. What a wonderful thing, eh?

there's something here. Yes, it will be 2012. That's why we're going to have some pretty nice auroras.

"The Sun's magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun's southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again. This transition happens, as far as we know, at the peak of every 11-year sunspot cycle -- like clockwork.
EarthÂ’s magnetic field also flips, but with less regularity. Consecutive reversals are spaced 5 thousand years to 50 million years apart. The last reversal happened 740,000 years ago. Some researchers think our planet is overdue for another one, but nobody knows exactly when the next reversal might occur."

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast15feb_1/

and possibly doing it on our hands.

crate full of compasses. I didn't realize the pole shift was coming and got scammed at Battery Park...I guess I can just use wite-out to change the N and S.

new alarm clock and I don't want to buy something that will suddenly start running backwards. Though the possibilities are intriguing. Wouldn't mind doing a Benjamin Button for the next fifty years.

is another.

http://www.polereversal.com/

It does NOT happen overnight and will not just happen in 2012. Sorry Mayan fans.

But the Slovaks will.

However, there have been signs that we can expect it to occur sometime during the next 400 years. Polar drift is happening and it has been accelerating, along with magnetic anomalies over large areas of the planet.

As the drift has been happening, changes in navigation, especially airline navigation have had to be made. Florida was in the news recently for having to change the orientation of two of its runways.

Since the "flip," if it occurs, has happened only rarely in the past, we don't really have any information on whether or not increased exposure to things like solar radiation occur during the process or what effect that might have on plant and animal life, if any.

However, the alarmism that tries to tie it in with the Mayan calendar would seem to be misplaced.

As the drift has been happening, changes in navigation, especially airline navigation have had to be made. Florida was in the news recently for having to change the orientation of two of its runways. Florida was in the news recently for having to change the orientation of two of its runways."

They did not realign them. That would be a major undertaking, as runways are 3 feet+ thick.

Maybe "Florida was in the news recently for having to change the numbers which indicate orientation of two of its runways."

Like dogs who supposedly can tell when there's an imminent earthquake? Perhaps professors J and 2-Dope could tell us, but according to the scientific literature I've been reading, they've been too busy researching magnetism to focus on avian predation of consumer electronics. Maybe the next time the National Academy of Science meets I'll get the chance to ask them.

Have you seen the new video of the Wooly Mammoth crossing a river in Siberia? Too bad the camera was out of focus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46371562/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TzmkGsp3Ye0