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Strangeo Forum The Sun Has Moved?    Moe        1/24/2011 At the risk of sounding legitimately insane, has anyone else felt like the sun has changed positions? Like it's setting in the wrong place or the shadows are wrong? It was most noticeable to me in December. I think it might have something to do with the magnetic polar shift affecting my primal sense of direction, but beyond feeling wrong, it actually looks wrong to me. It's hard to find any legitimate information regarding this, but if one looks hard enough, the sentiment is shared, postings scattered across rumor, psychic, and conspiracy boards. About the only officially odd happening is that the sun apparently rose 2 days early in Greenland? I don't suppose anyone else noticed that something feels odd with regards to the sun, even slightly? Or I'm just gonna be that guy huddle in the corner of a psyche ward whispering, "The shadows are wrong, the shadows are wrong."...lol   sam999     1/24/2011 You da man.... ....that's sitting in the psyche ward. But don't worry, it saves were & tare on the skull-shaped baskets where most CC members keep our sanity. Although, I don't live in Greenland, in fact I'm nearly on the other side of the planet, so if something's off with your homeland I wouldn't know.   Tea Queen Laura     1/24/2011 Not the sun, but similarly I think that the moon is getting bigger. I was driving home on Saturday night, it was about 22:30-23:00, and the moon was right in front of me. It looked HUGE... Huge! And yellow. So much so that it really shocked me. I've never seen the moon look that big, or fluorescent before. An Artist's Reconstruction - it looked just like this, but bigger, with more eerie clouds. I have never seen the like. So no, you're not the only person who has suspicions, or notices strange things.... *Joins Moe in the corner*   AquaShee   1/24/2011 I've noticed exceptionally large moons in the past, so I don't think they're related to any current events. I also doubt a polar shift is happening, because that would mean every single compass in the world begins to point the wrong way, and surely people would notice that. (At least, I think a polar shift would do that. Wouldn't it?) The sun rising early in Greenland is no big mystery, though. The sun peeked over the horizon 2 days earlier because the horizon itself was at least a few feet lower. Ice layers melting and all that. It's especially noticeable over there because of the large angle at which the sun shines. Other than that I have no idea why the sun would look odd. Perhaps the weather itself makes the sun appear strange? There could be a layer of smog making it fuzzy. As for the shared sentiment, be wary of those. Often rumours like that find a lot of 'support' on rumour forums because people who post on those often enjoy getting attention, or devising elaborate theories on simple things. Like, say, the sun rising a bit earlier in Greenland because it didn't have to climb as high. I don't think you're insane though! There could be many reasons why the sun appears odd. The Community Scribble: make (y)our own metaroom!   Moe     1/24/2011 Oh I'm not saying an entire pole shift, we would most definitely notice that, I'm saying just a few degrees. Enough to make things feel strange, sort of like how they theorize some animals migrate via internal compasses? And I know there has been scientific evidence to suggest that the pole is moving around. Perhaps it reached far enough that people's "internal compasses" are starting to notice? And it's not a freak weather phenomenon throwing me off. I've felt it all winter, like it's perpetually afternoon. XD And I'm wary of the Greenland explanation that I too had read. Seems like people are blaming everything on global warming these days, and quite frankly it's getting old. I'm not big on conspiracy theories but I'm about ready to refuse any explanation that involves "global warming", if only because I'm tired of hearing about it! lol And yes I agree, places like those are to be viewed with the utmost skepticism. I don't frequent such boards and sites. I mention them because in my Google search, that's the only kinda place I saw anyone else echo my sentiments. That in itself is a bit odd. You'd think some other "normal" person would mention it somewhere. :p But look at me...spinning conspiracy theories. XD I'm totally open to a legitimate explanation.   AquaShee   1/24/2011 Thing is, scientific compasses would be a lot more accurate than our internal compasses, wouldn't they? The internal compass of most animals is based on local magnetic fields, so if the pole shifts, it'd have to shift enough to distort the local magnetic fields all over the globe. (The migration patterns of birds have moved along with the continents, even though this often made the trip a lot longer. This is because they follow localized magnetic fields. They probably kept taking the long trip since it's an effective way of keeping the species on its toes, err, talons) The pole has been moving around for ages now, but always at a very slow pace. Even the fastest movements take ages for us short-lived humans. A meteor impact could probably speed things up, even even then it would take more than a lifetime. Probably because our lifetimes would suddenly be a lot shorter. Polar shift is mainly caused by a redistribution of mass on the planet. This could be tectonic activity, activity in the earth's mantle, or displacement of ice and water. So, err, once again global warming would be the culprit. I'm also annoyed at the global warming frenzy these days, but being something with a global quality, it's likely to be the cause of a lot of events. We wouldn't be the first species to change the planet's climate and cause our own extinction, though. We're just doing it really fast. As many of us as there are, we would probably cause climate change just by breathing a bit too often. Or growing too much beans. I really can't think of any other reason why the sun would be strange. Smog layer that hangs around very long? Change in schedule compared to previous years? I'm pretty sure that if there was some global event causing it, the media would already have been exaggerating it tenfold by now. :/ The Community Scribble: make (y)our own metaroom!   Prodigal Sock Ghosthande     1/24/2011 The sun moving is a totally normal thing. In fact that's what Stonehenge was constructed for. The sun appears more-northly or more-southly depending on the season, so if you line up big rocks just right it will shine through different openings at different times of year. I can't remember the actual term for this but it's a very well-known phenomenon, and is also very observable from my apartment balcony. I can't see the sunrise anymore because it's shifted so that it now rises behind one of the apartment buildings across the street.   Moe     1/24/2011 Oh no, Ghosthande I'm aware that the sun shifts season to season due to the earth's tilt, I just feel like it's shifted moreso this season than usual.   Pyromaniac605   1/27/2011 If the Earth were tilting more than usual the effects would be felt much more than the sun seeming out of place, seasons would be out of timing (ie Begin/end sooner/later) and I'm sure it would be all over the news along with people raving about the end of the world. Albia Volcanis -Updated 23/2   Prodigal Sock Ghosthande     1/27/2011 Well, some people already are raving about the end of the world.   AquaShee   1/27/2011 They've been like that since forever though. It's the longest running rave since ever, I think. The Community Scribble: make (y)our own metaroom!   Lollipop Lord C-Rex     1/27/2011 It's all a big mass hysteria if you ask me-just one thing out of the ordinary and people assume that the world is going to end.   Pyromaniac605   1/28/2011 Sigged. Albia Volcanis -Updated 23/2   Gumbo   1/30/2011 Wait, about the world ending quote, are you talking about global warming or the sun movement? in the spring you gotta let the flowers fully blossom

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