But you know what's even more retarded? I sprayed alcohol on the wound. Twice. And not by accident... What was I thinking?
Aside from that stinging feel and the way my arms seem to be unable to support themselves, I'm fine, I guess.
Today's presentation went well, I suppose. I didn't really sense any attacks in particular. Lucky me, then.
Man, that's a lot of two-line paragraphs today. Anyway, has anyone realised that "analysis" can be seen as a combination of "anal" and "lysis"? So that basically means... To split using ass. Great.
Oh, and I remembered something about our happy apocalypse theories. While a swap in magnetic field would do nothing except mess with our navigation, the disappearance of it could result in the end of the world. Now, this is not impossible. Most geologists agree in the liquid dynamo theory thing. I don't really understand it myself, but it's got to do with that the fluid motion of molten iron in the outer core causes a magnetic field to be generated.
Now, consider this: The earth is cooling. The initial heat produced during the formation of the earth has been dissipating over the last 5 billion years or so. The only heat we're getting back is from the sun, and that doesn't get very far in. So basically, the core of the earth is cooling down, and eventually, it'll solidify. When that happens, the magnetic field will be lost. Yeah, go search "liquid dynamo". Maybe someone with a better knowledge of magnetism will be able to explain it better.
Our magnetic field does many things for us. Other than the obvious boon for navigation, it also protects us against cosmic rays by diverting them away from the face of the earth. Solar wind. The deflection is weakest at the poles, so the space stuffies get closer to the planet, resulting in aurora borealis.
When our magnetic shielding is gone... Well, the rest is self explanatory. The earth will be continually bombarded with cosmic radiation and other solar particles. It'll be like living in Chernobyl. For the rest of your life. Everywhere.
Wait, shit. I just did some reading, and apparently, a pole shift could cause the same effects. According to the source, the swap isn't immediate. It takes some time. And in that time, we might get(according to computer simulations) multiple, random, magnetic poles "wandering" around the earth. So you might suddenly have a north pole in your back yard. While this may sound really cool and all, the disruption of a continuous magnetic field from pole to pole will have a similar effect to having no magnetic field at all.
So if the poles are really going to swap, we're all going to get cancer. We'll all be a bunch of cancerous mutants, unable to use the telephone or the internet(because cosmic radiation kills all forms of transmission). All that we can hope for is that they give us Fantastic 4-ish powers instead of tumours.
Whoop te doo.
Oh wait, we may not have to wait that long. Without a magnetic field, solar particles will be free to react with and remove our atmosphere. Literally blowing it away. Without the atmosphere, all water will be lost too. So yeah, we may not have to worry about cancer.
Does anyone find this a little disturbing?
-Joe