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is, uh...
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well, it's a big, solid chunk
of iron,

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we think.
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And that's surrounded
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by the outer core,
and that is liquid.

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Yes, but,
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most importantly, this liquid
is constantly spinning

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in one direction.
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So a trillion trillion tons
of hot metal

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spinning at
a thousand miles an hour, so...

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Right, so Physics 101...
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hot metal moving fast
makes an electromagnetic field.

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This spinning liquid outer core
is the engine

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that drives the EM Field.
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And that's where
we have our problem.

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This engine has stalled.
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The core of the Earth
has stopped spinning.

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How could this have happened?
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We don't know.
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What's the timeline here?
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As the EM Field
becomes more and more unstable,

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we'll start seeing
isolated incidents.

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One plane
will fall from the sky,

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and then two, and then...
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in a few months, anything...
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everything electronic
will be fried.

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Static discharges
in the atmosphere

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will create "super-storms"
with hundreds

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of lightening strikes
per square mile.

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After that, it gets bad.
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The Earth's EM Field
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shields us from the solar winds,
which are a lethal blend

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of radioactive particles
and microwaves.

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When that shield collapses,
microwave radiation

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will literally
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cook our planet.
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Dr. Zimsky.
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This is the Sun.
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This is the Earth...
without the EM Field.

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Would you?
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Mm-hmm.
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Three months, gentlemen,
and we're back in the Stone Age.

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A full year,
the field collapses...

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and that.
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May I?

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