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Re:Deep Space Trajectories: Exiting the Heliosphere by marcosdumay on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:16AM (#40114612)
As compared to the galaxy magnetic field inducing change on the Earth's?

The entire thing is ridiculous.

Oh, and that 12k year "geological cycle" (AKA random fluctuations that somebody got famous for mischaracterizing) is the weakest one without any visible consequences. The larger ones are much more interesting.

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Re:Deep Space Trajectories: Exiting the Heliosphere by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 22, 2024 @11:27AM (#40115287)
> that 12k year "geological cycle"

It's worse than that. The 12,000 years comes from "the duration of a full reversal" being "between 2,000 and 12,000 years" [1]. They took the duration of a phenomenon and mistook it for its frequency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#History

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Re:Deep Space Trajectories: Exiting the Heliosphere by pfdietz on Monday April 22, 2024 @02:13PM (#40117072)
That's equally ludicrous, yes. I didn't read beyond those two.
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