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[chick-it-out]

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[writing-with-science]

Just seen your post for this blog and it sounds great! I do have a (maybe stupid) question: if a planet had five magnetic poles, what would it be like for organic life on that planet? Would they experience 'existence' differently than we do having only two poles? Or would it have no real impact until technology was involved? How might it impact (relatively) simple technology (i.e. about the level of early (1980/90/00s) computers/phones?) Thank you!

Now first of all, planets with multiple poles would probably have a fairly turbulent core as the poles come from swirling currents there. Also I don’t know how long these multiple poles would last, they would probably be fairly erratic. I mean, not like changing day to day but over the course of thousands of years they’d probably shift quite a bit and move around. Also, I’m not sure if five poles is really possible? it might have to have an even number though I cant really find anything that would say whether or not it really needs an even number. Magnets will have an even number of poles but because its not an actual magnet and just comes from the relationship of magnetic energy and electric energy, its hard to tell. 

However, as to what you were asking about flora/fauna and technology, I don’t think it would affect animals too much. Our poles on earth randomly switch every couple hundred thousand years and the animals are definitely able to deal with it. A lot of animals do have some sort of way to sense magnetism and use it to navigate (like birds that fly south in winter etc). With five poles its hard to tell how organic life would adapt to it, and since having five poles means the poles would be relatively unstable in geological terms, I don’t really know if animals would have time to evolve to adapt some sort of magnetic sensory thing. However, if they did, they could probably still use it to navigate. Poles are either north or south, they either have field lines going toward them or going away from them. So as long as the animals were adapted to ‘know’ where each pole is and which type it is (subconsciously) then yes they probably could navigate by it. Basically, they either wouldn’t really have ways of detecting it, or they would and they’d be slightly more complex than our animals in order to compensate for the multiple poles and figuring out how to navigate by them.

With the multiple magnetic poles, the field might be more weak in some places. This would lead to more radiation from whatever sun coming in so that would probably affect everything on the planet, and animals would probably learn over generations to avoid those places.

As far as technology goes, obviously compasses would be the big thing that is changed. Since there are five poles, meaning multiple norths and souths, using a compass could be hard as it might kind of spin unless you’re quite a bit closer to one pole than the other. This would make early navigation a bit harder so I’m guessing people on this planet would start using the stars more than compasses. Once we get to the level of computers and satellites and stuff, that’s different. Computers are generally better at figuring this kind of stuff out than a human with a compass so I’m guessing phone navigation systems could use the magnetic field a bit though once satellites come into play, a lot of it is just satellites. Not much of our tech would be affected by five poles if it had been built with five poles in mind. Obviously it would have to be different than ours but not too different.

If the poles fluctuated, they’d have to be more robust to deal with solar radiation that comes from the fluctuation, but thats about it. 

[directionoftime]

https://www.wattpad.com/566633300-dear-fermi-chapter-one-bloody-engineers

Space. The final frontier. These words have been with us for generations and whilst humans have finally made it off-planet, we've yet to reach beyond the solar system - and lived to tell about it, anyway. At least, until two busy-body engineers poking around with equipment they don't understand unleash a chain of events which takes the crew of one small cargo ship hurtling out into the galaxy, which is full of ancient species and cultures of aliens who were space fairing before life had even crawled out of our oceans.

Turns out 'we'll play it by ear' is a uniquely human idea. These poor aliens haven't got a clue what's about to hit them.

TLDR: If you're here for that sweet, sweet trope of humans MacGyver-ing their way out of impossible situations, much to distress of nearby aliens (who have no idea who MacGyver is or why humans are so terrifyingly illogical) then this is the story for you!

Credit for the artwork goes to my very talented BFF: Brianna Bentley be sure to check out her other amazing artwork: DeviantART: https://bloomingbri.deviantart.com/

Warnings: rated M (to be on the safe side) for drug addiction which is regularly referred to (though with no graphic descriptions), as well as for a lot of strong language and some later violence but there will be NO instances of sexual assault or R!  Any other warnings will be mentioned for the specific chapters they might pertain to! Enjoy!

https://www.wattpad.com/566633300-dear-fermi-chapter-one-bloody-engineers

[serenitytouched]

Whoo! The KakaSaku month sounds awesome! XD I was kinda confused when it was mentioned that there would be two prompts a week and then something about a theme (this could just be me) but it kinda seemed like a cool idea if there was a theme of the week and some prompts and you could choose to do either prompts/theme or both ..? Either way, really looking forward to it - the best ninjas in halloween season? Yes, please! XD

We will try and be clear once the prompts are set, but you have the right idea.Let’s say we have two prompts per week. You can pick to do just one or do all of them. Or you can even incorporate all the prompts into one story or artwork.