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Science  Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport 317
RFSSystems writes "I thought this was an amazing and rather rare
phenomenon and wanted to share. 'The airport has closed its
primary runway until Jan. 13 to repaint the numeric designators
at each end and change taxiway signage to account for the shift
in location of the Earth's magnetic north pole.' It appears that
the shifting poles have begun to affect air travel in a somewhat
modest way. Could this also be the explanation for the
falling/dead birds this week?" I hope the gradualists are right,
but scenarios for rapid magnetic pole shift are fun to think
about.  Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport  Comments
Filter:   • Happens all the time (Score:5, Informative)      by
Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 06, 2011 @03:47PM
(#34781394)      The airport I work at has a second set of
signage from when the gradual shift occurs in c