The Commonwealth: North or South

Redhaven1 · 25 Oct 1999, 23:25 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: Redhaven1 at aol.com
Subject: (urth) The Commonwealth: North or South
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 19:25:09 EDT
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I'm new to this list, so I apologize if this has already been discussed.  I=
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TBOTNS the Commonwealth is always refered to as being in the south and the=20
Ascians are from the north, giving rise to the speculations that the=20
Commonwealth might be in present-day South America.  But I seem to remember=20
reading somewhere that scientists believe that the Earth's magnetic poles h=
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reversed sometime in the past (perhaps more than once).  Has anyone else=20
heard of this?  In the movie 'Waterworld' the heroes finally found the=20
legendary 'Dry-land'  by realizing that when an ancient map said 'North', i=
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actually meant 'South' because the north pole was now the magnetic south.  =
If=20
TBOTNS is far enough in the future, couldn't it be possible that this had=20
happened in its past and then the Commonwealth could possibly be in the US =
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maybe Europe?  Again, sorry if this theory has already been put forward.

-Steve

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