Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

He doesn't seem to be hoping or expecting, not to me at least. Moreso I think hea just admitting the obvious. "If that outrageously unlikely thing were true, that'd be fascinating."

It would be fascinating, and I'd opine very very unlikely.

The publications on the magnetic pole reversal's impact on climate are pretty interesting, and this doesn't appear to me to be looney tunes stuff either.

On a slightly related note, the number on airport runways reflect the magnetic orientation of the runway.  So, Runway 27 for example points West, and Runway 09 would be its reciprocal.  These get changed if the magnetic pole drifts, which is has been doing of late.  Obviously, a runway could be 27.4 and with a small drift turn into 27.5 and need to be repainted as Runway 28 and 91.

The aeronautical maps have to be changed as well, you are supposed to buy new ones every 6 months, and they used to cost $8 a piece.  Maybe everyone uses GPS now.

In the olden times, biplanes and when I was still flying and such, we had to learn to navigate with the "wet compass" and pilotage, a watch, and calculating your ground speed.  It was kind of fun, but not the easiest thing in the world while you also were controlling the plane and looking out for others.

Buy maps was a bit expensive, but so is flying.  A sectional map would cover 3-4-5 states, and you needed a special map of any Class B airport, which Cincinnati became whilst I was flying.  The poles are moving unusually quickly right now, which generates speculation about this pole reversal and its effects, but it plays havoc with old timey navigation.

The wet compass jiggles so much in even slight turbulence that it's hard to read anyway.  If you are off 1° in your heading, after 60 nautical miles you will be 1 nautical mile left or right of your intended location.  This is why they use knots for navigation and not mph or kph.

Yeah, navigation is almost the same for planes as for boats.  A nice thing about planes is you have a much wider field of view and "landmarks" in general.

I vaguely recall my first long cross country solo as a student I was looking for an airport and was pretty sure I was close to it so I started descending and found I could not see it and was too close for the radio navigation beacons to work properly.  I had to climb to find it.  Bloomington, Indiana, and it's a controlled airport as well.

But, I digress.  I had a few notions about regaining my currency to fly again but decided not to.

Maybe we can go on a Ship of Fools tour to Bimini and the Triangle

I'll ride along