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		arethuza on Feb 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon? "shift of the earth's crust" So the movie 2012 was based on existing daft ideas or did they get those ideas from the movie?

Retra on Feb 1, 2019 [–]

"shift of the earth's crust with respect to the [...] magnetic poles"

This is not incorrect, even if it is a little garden-pathy.

coldacid on Feb 1, 2019 | [–]

It'd still be far more accurate were "crust" and "magnetic poles" flipped in the statement.

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