Dumb Dead Animal Panic Thread (Don't make any more threads about this) - Polidicks

A ton of areas in the US south and south-east have been hit these past few weeks with reports of hundreds upon thousands of dead fish and birds each reporting. Also Washington, Japan, Australia, Sweden, and Brazil has been hit too recently. According to Suite101.com it might be due to [url=http://www.suite101.com/content/earths-magnetic-fields-may-be-causing-bird-and-fish-die-off-a328353]shifts in the earths magnetic north pole.[/url] And MSNBC is saying it's moving at around 40miles/year, which is disturbingly fast.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;27253350]No, it'd be something like: 2012, oceans mysteriously recede and rise several times a day, or 2012, strange grey and white masses drift across the sky.[/QUOTE] That's gonna piss off the pirates.

[QUOTE=Turtlecake;27253375]A ton of areas in the US south and south-east have been hit these past few weeks with reports of hundreds upon thousands of dead fish and birds each reporting. Also Washington, Japan, Australia, Sweden, and Brazil has been hit too recently. According to Suite101.com it might be due to [url=http://www.suite101.com/content/earths-magnetic-fields-may-be-causing-bird-and-fish-die-off-a328353]shifts in the earths magnetic north pole.[/url] And MSNBC is saying it's moving at around 40miles/year, which is disturbingly fast.[/QUOTE] No. If the poles shifted this suddenly there would be [i]massive[/i] die offs of whales and sharks. I'm talking entire species wiped out. Beaches lined with the bodies of whales and sharks. A great white shark can swim from Hawaii to California without surfacing because they follow the magnetic fields like a road map. If any change happened, every shark would notice it, and most likely die quickly. And whales would be fucking hopeless are you kidding me.

[QUOTE=OvB;27253420]No. If the poles shifted this suddenly there would be [i]massive[/i] die offs of whales and sharks. I'm talking entire species wiped out. Beaches lined with the bodies of whales and sharks. A great white shark can swim from Hawaii to California without surfacing because they follow the magnetic fields like a road map. If any change happened, every shark would notice it, and most likely die quickly.[/QUOTE] 40 miles a year is still too slow to cause that fast of a change, Most of the fish die-offs are the results in gradual fresh water lake and sea temperature changes, this isn't uncommon for a single happening or in a single country, but for it all to happen within a few weeks from eachother all over the world is odd. Most recent studies and autopsies in the dead birds have figured most of them died from exhaustion or confusion. If you haven't already know, birds use the magnetic poles as a 'compass' and clock to tell them when to migrate and what direction for them to travel, If anything interferes with this compass then they can easily become confused, run into trees and buildings, become exhausted, or just fly off into the ocean. Whales and Sharks are larger, mostly salt-water creatures. Climate change takes longer to effect ocean regions and whales and sharks can sustain much more temperature change due to their mass and blubber. If you haven't noticed: Most of the fish dying recently are tiny.

[QUOTE=Zoook;27252625]They're obviously trying to cover up for the aliens. In all seriousness, though, I expected this. I started to laugh at every new headline of a mass bird/fish/crab death. It was just like the earthquake scare last year.[/QUOTE] And the (whatever the fuck was supposed to cause armageddon in '98)/Y2K/shark/sars/avian flu/swine flu/shark naturally occurring bogeymen of the year in the past

[QUOTE=Zoook;27252625]They're obviously trying to cover up for the aliens. In all seriousness, though, I expected this. I started to laugh at every new headline of a mass bird/fish/crab death. It was just like the earthquake scare last year.[/QUOTE] This hasn't happened in roughly 500 years.

[QUOTE=Turtlecake;27253529]40 miles a year is still too slow to cause that fast of a change, Most of the fish die-offs are the results in gradual fresh water lake and sea temperature changes, this isn't uncommon for a single happening or in a single country, but for it all to happen within a few weeks from eachother all over the world is odd. Most recent studies and autopsies in the dead birds have figured most of them died from exhaustion or confusion. If you haven't already know, birds use the magnetic poles as a 'compass' and clock to tell them when to migrate and what direction for them to travel, If anything interferes with this compass then they can easily become confused, run into trees and buildings, become exhausted, or just fly off into the ocean. Whales and Sharks are larger, mostly salt-water creatures. Climate change takes longer to effect ocean regions and whales and sharks can sustain much more temperature change due to their mass and blubber. If you haven't noticed: Most of the fish dying recently are tiny.[/QUOTE] I know. It's entirely possible on the long term. I was commenting more of a more "OH GOD END OF DAYS" type pole change which is ridiculous. Sharks are [i]extremely[/i] sensitive to electric fields and would detect even the smallest change. If you put a shark in a pool and threw a fridge magnet in with it the shark would stay as far away from it as possible. Any change in the fields is probably slow enough for the sharks to make corrections on their course, which explains why we don't see masses of sharks washing up on beaches. I'm still not liking the whole pole change explanation. I think this is just media hysteria of a probably very explainable occurrence. Why would the birds all die just now if it's changing at a slow rate? Wouldn't we see much more birds and other animals die if this was the case?

It has all happened before, one news agency reports it and spreads, then other agencies start reporting the same thing.

[QUOTE=Turtlecake;27253609]This hasn't happened in roughly 500 years.[/QUOTE] [quote]In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America[/quote] The USGS says otherwise. If this was serious, I'm pretty sure scientists wouldn't be saying "calm down this happens all the time." When they say panic, I'll panic.

[quote][b]"They generally fly under the radar," [/b]said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science[/quote]hurr

[QUOTE=OvB;27253420]No. If the poles shifted this suddenly there would be [i]massive[/i] die offs of whales and sharks. I'm talking entire species wiped out. Beaches lined with the bodies of whales and sharks. A great white shark can swim from Hawaii to California without surfacing because they follow the magnetic fields like a road map. If any change happened, every shark would notice it, and most likely die quickly. And whales would be fucking hopeless are you kidding me.[/QUOTE] What's fun though is that the magnetic field changes a little every year. Also what would be even more visible is that the digital compasses etc, that we use every day wouldn't work the same way anymore.

[QUOTE=Zoook;27253775]The USGS says otherwise. If this was serious, I'm pretty sure scientists wouldn't be saying "calm down this happens all the time." When they say panic, I'll panic.[/QUOTE] I was talking about a massive pole change such the scale as this one. [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=OvB;27253666]I know. It's entirely possible on the long term. I was commenting more of a more "OH GOD END OF DAYS" type pole change which is ridiculous. Sharks are [i]extremely[/i] sensitive to electric fields and would detect even the smallest change. If you put a shark in a pool and threw a fridge magnet in with it the shark would stay as far away from it as possible. Any change in the fields is probably slow enough for the sharks to make corrections on their course, which explains why we don't see masses of sharks washing up on beaches. I'm still not liking the whole pole change explanation. I think this is just media hysteria of a probably very explainable occurrence. Why would the birds all die just now if it's changing at a slow rate? Wouldn't we see much more birds and other animals die if this was the case?[/QUOTE] First [url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081217-solar-breaches.html]this.[/url] Then[url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091224-north-pole-magnetic-russia-earth-core.html] this.[/url] Then[url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40934547/ns/local_news-tampa_fl/] this.[/url] It's just another chapter in the story, except this one has a few bumps along the way.

This thread is hilarious it starts out with everyone saying 'just hype, move along' and slowly divulges into speculations about the earths poles moving rapidly and killing everything.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;27252637]That doesn't justify it, people should look into why, not just push it off like nothing happened.[/QUOTE] You're right, people should be asking questions, and those people who are qualified to do so probably are. But we certainly shouldn't start using scaremongering to convince everyone that [b]THE END IS NIGHT![/b]

Might be late but 8000 pigeons died in Italy now, and 70 in a town in Sweden. Source is swedish though [URL]http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article8380146.ab[/URL] The article states that they all had blue spots on their beak showing that they could have died of poisoning or lack of oxygen

Yeah after the first two stories I began to think "we're only finding this stuff suddenly because we're looking for it. Probably goes on all the time and we don't notice."

[QUOTE=Habsburg;27252485]fuck those biologists they're always lying getting me pissed[/QUOTE] What good is news if they told anything but facts?

[quote]"aflockalypse" [/quote] haha i love that

It's all a conspiracy, Watch as the reptilian overlords take over.

Soon everyone in a major city falls dead. That had been awesome.

Problem solved, i am okay with this.

Yeah I don't really care how often this happens, I still want to know why.

Ah, so it's the media hyping something up when there's not much news. Like Bird/Swine flu - the stories which come back as the most terrible thing ever happen to humanity when there's nothing else to say on the news, especially considering Swine Flu is barely any worse than The Flu.

Fucking finally. Also, about the "magnetic pole reversal": The poles look fine. Six hours ago during a storm the thing was flipped over and all skewed, now it's back to normality, I guess these magnetic fuck ups are a regular thing.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;27259087]Fucking finally. Also, about the "magnetic pole reversal": The poles look fine. Six hours ago during a storm the thing was flipped over and all skewed, now it's back to normality, I guess these magnetic fuck ups are a regular thing.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry, but that's kind of confusing. What exactly do you mean by "the thing"? The poles themselves, or a compass, or what? I'm genuinely curious at what you said.

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;27259118]I'm sorry, but that's kind of confusing. What exactly do you mean by "the thing"? The poles themselves, or a compass, or what? I'm genuinely curious at what you said.[/QUOTE] See this, yesterday: [IMG]http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/images/test_6.20110106183208.jpg[/IMG] And now from a few hours ago: [IMG]http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/images/test_6.20110107104702.jpg[/IMG] The thing on the upper left is the magnetic field. Two days ago it was all flipped over. Now it's not perfectly streamlined, but it looks "clean" enough. I'm not in any way an expert, but I'm pretty sure during a pole reversal it would look worse, a lot worse, and would actually, well, reverse. The thing on the upper right is the plasma from the Sun. As long as it has that shape, we're fine.

[QUOTE=MrJazzy;27258832]Yeah I don't really care how often this happens, I still want to know why.[/QUOTE] Changing weather, changing climate, disease, poisoning, a freak storm, or any number of other causes. These things happen all the time, and for explainable reasons. The media is just making it seem like this is some new and evil thing to make some money and it'll die off and disappear just like what happened to the Chilean earthquake and Swine flu. If you're talking about the pole reversal then forget I said anything.

[QUOTE=Zoook;27259326]Changing weather, changing climate, disease, poisoning, a freak storm, or any number of other causes. These things happen all the time, and for explainable reasons. The media is just making it seem like this is some new and evil thing to make some money and it'll die off and disappear just like what happened to the Chilean earthquake and Swine flu.[/QUOTE] or the oil spill [sp]that is still destroying the planet but everyone forgot[/sp]

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-Two-MILLION-dead-fish-wash-Maryland-bay.html#ixzz1AMVPQmT9[/url] [quote] Thousands of dead turtle doves rained down on roofs and cars in an Italian town in the latest in a growing spate of mass animal deaths across the globe. Residents in Faenza described the birds falling to the ground like 'little Christmas balls' with strange blue stains on their beaks. Initial tests on up to 8,000 of the doves indicated that the blue stain could have been caused by poisoning or hypoxia. A witness told [url]www.examiner.com:[/url] 'We have no idea why this happened all of a sudden. 'The doves just started falling one-by-one then in groups of 10s and 20s.' Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, is known to cause confusion and illness in animals. It is also a common precursor to altitude sickness. Experts said results from tests on the doves will not be available for at least a week. They said that cold weather could have caused the birds' deaths as the flock was swept into a high-altitude wind storm before falling to the earth. It comes after two million dead fish were found to have washed up on shores in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. The alarming find is being blamed by authorities in Maryland on the stress caused by unusually cold water and overbreeding among spot fish. That investigation comes just days after the deaths of an estimated 100,000 fish in northwest Arkansas, which is being blamed on disease. A statement by the Maryland Department of the Environment said: 'Natural causes appear to be the reason. 'Cold water stress exacerbated by a large population of the affected species (juvenile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill.' Preliminary tests of the water in Chesapeake Bay have showed the quality was acceptable, officials said. The statement added: 'The affected fish are almost exclusively juvenile spot fish, three to six inches in length. 'A recent survey showed a very strong population of spot in the bay this year. An increased juvenile population and limited deep water habitat would likely compound the effects of cold water stress.' [/quote] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/07/article-1344913-0CAD3141000005DC-838_634x376.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/07/article-1344913-0CAD314D000005DC-594_634x301.jpg[/img]

Great news.