When the poles flip...

>>9022341
west and east are where the sun sets and rises, so unless earth starts spinning in an opposite direction those 2 are gonna be the same as they are now.
so A.

>>9022425
I see, so even though north and south are now pointing in opposite directions, the sun would still rise in the east and set in the west?

>>9022341
also, it's no biggie. Things at Earth's surface are basically unaffected, unless it's a sensitive instrument, like a compass. The protective field will flip, but not decrease.

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>>9022450
yes, Aussies will still see sunrise before Europeans do

>>9022452
>The protective field will flip, but not decrease.
But does it have the potential to disrupt human society, or would it be more like y2k where we just dealt with it as it happened and life went on?

>>9022502
This.

This will involve repainting compass needles and not much else.

Magnetic north and true north already disagree a little. They'll just disagree a lot.

North will remain north. We named the magnets after the map. We're mot gonna rename the map because the magnet changes its mind.

>>9022704
But would it still make sense to call it "true north" if it becomes closer to the magnetic south of the planet?

>>9022704
Pretty much this, nobody is going to bother redoing every fucking map in existence for a semantic difference

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>>9022719
Seems to me like It'd be a potential for map-printing companies to make a lot of money selling new maps, assuming they had the right marketing blitz.

>"Come buy your scientifically accurate map right here!"

Or I guess we could just get used to calling south north and vice versa. Seems like there's the potential for confusion.