/sci/ - Science & Math

IRL trailer for 2012.

Well, the world is huge. Really huge. A few mass die-offs, no matter how newsworthy, is more likely to be a statistical blip than "Dead animals. Everywhere."

Been happening for ages and ages, this is documented, you only heard about it just now because the media is paying attention.

Don't start with the magnetic field flipover pseudoscience myths -- The magnetosphere has been within acceptable bounds.

It's obviously paranormal, though the pseudo-/sci/entists of this board will never admit to anything that conflicts with their rigid, dogmatic world view.

dont take mt word for it but in my opinion it has something to do with the magnetic poles

It's a sign of God's anger with all you sinners.

>>2317415
>magnetic poles
>dead animals
trolledhard.jpg

We've been trying to teach you faggots about natural culling for decades and it's not until something inaccurate and barely related gets shit out of the media that you even ask?

Fuck you.

This is in the New York times now. They wouldn't report it if it was normal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/weekinreview/09gorman.html

>>2317421
>Implying birds and fish don't use magnetic lines to (n)avigate

>>2317427
Earthquakes are normal but they sure like to report those

>>2317427
>This is in the New York times now. They wouldn't report it if it was normal.
hahaha oh wait... you're serious?

my theory is that these animals are smelling the collective farts of humanity that have been stored in pockets of air in various locations

>>2317440

So...swamp gas?

>>2317427
Right. You keep believing that. They're desperate for readership, just like everyone else.

You know what guys? Two things: birds and fish die in groups all the time. Really, look up mortality statistics. Pretty much every government has a group that keeps an eye on the local fish and birds.

And, even IF this is statistically significant, I'm not worried. The sky isn't falling, you impressionable little kids.

We were expecting massive loss of marine life following the BP oil spill from both initial toxicity & deoxygenation caused by bacterial action.

Then millions of fish die on schedule and the public goes "Oh lawd what happen" because they have the collective memory retention of a goldfish.

>>2317438
Yes, earthquakes are normal because they currently have an explanation. Those animal deaths currently can't be explained, therefore they aren't normal. Generally, things which can't be explained are also very rare, so the animal death mystery gets so much attention due to the fact that it's very rare and doesn't have an explanation (paranormal).

>>2317473
Bullshit. Normal is based on statistical occurrence, not whether we can explain it. And "normal" is enough to assure us that this is just business as usual, even if we don't understand it.

The recent issue of colony collapse disorder in honeybees is another matter.

>>2317391
You know what else was in reasonable bounds? The mass spectrometer, and we all know that led to a resonance cascade...

-Dr. G. Freeman

>>2317415
Why? it's not like birds have tiny compass in their heads

>>2317491
Actually, there's reason to believe they do.

>>2317452
>Then millions of fish die on schedule on the opposite side of the world then pseudo-sceptics ignore the evidence

Fixed

>>2317491
Well, they do, actually.

>>2317491
>>2317514
>>2317538

We've already tested their reaction to changing magnetic fields. They become confused, but it doesn't kill them and they are able to cope.

>>2317532
>same region
>opposite side of the world

fullretard.scr.exe

>>2317547

see
>>2317415

The bird thing seems clear enough. They're startled awake by fireworks (it was January fucking first) and aren't nocturnal animals so their nightvision is shit. A bunch in the flock bash one another to death, which would be consistent with all the scratches (caused by beaks/nails) on their bodies.

>>2317554
>Oil spill in gulf of mexico
>Dead fish in new zealand
>Same region

>>2317567
>>>/x/

>>2317532
>>2317568

Just stop, you aren't fooling anyone are are a horrible person for what you are trying to do.

The two million dead fish actually cited in these reports died in Chesapeake bay, north along the coast from the spill. They were juvenile spot fish from the gulf area and would have been forced northward at a bad time of year because of the gulf conditions. It is much too cold up there in late December for them to survive.

There was an even larger mass culling nearly forty years ago in which over ten million died by moving to the bay during unfavorable winter conditions.

>>2317579

That's not paranormal at all. Most birds can't see in the dark and will collide with things if startled into a panicked flight in pitch blackness.

>>2317567
than how do you explain the ones in sweden?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40921795/ns/us_news-environment/ in sweden?

PROVE MY TINFOIL FEARMONGERING WRONG, /SCI/

>>2317589
>Denying fish died in new zealand
Conspiracy theories belong on /x/

>>2317590

Some dozens of dead birds on a cold winter night isn't even unusual in Sweden. Like at all.

>Started to build evidence that the recent birds dying is to do with the polar shift towards Russia.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-8k-turtle-doves-fall-dead-Italy
-blue-stain-beaks.html
The birds mysteriously had blue beaks, you will begin to understand that is because birds also use their beaks for navigation. Here is a very good good article on it.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...tic_birds.html

They have a magnetic mineral called magnetite that is in their beaks which they use for navigation.
http://www.technologyreview.com/nanotech/19049/?a=f
Another excellent article published by MIT which shows that as a magnetic field gets stronger magnetite goes towards the blue spectrum, seeing that the north magnetic pole came further south than usual, it could have made the beak turn blue. Haven't got a good pictures of the blue beaks, but if the stain stems from the ethmoid region of the beak that could be further evidence as that is where the magnetite originates. Been getting quite annoyed at all the poor scientific explanations speculated given the printing speed of the press such.
Critics and help welcome.

copy pasted from another thread, seriously guys it's the magnetic poles going apeshit

>>2317484
I read somewhere that the honeybees were killed by pesticides.

>>2317596
That happens here every year.

>>2317602

It's been known for some time that the north pole is accelerating towards Russia.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1215_051215_north_pole.html

So the effects should continue if that is the cause. Hopefully it is a fluctuation and not a reversal.

>>2317604
I also heard virus and mites. But I haven't paid attention in a while - just that it was figured out and not the end of all bees.

>>2317563

If powerful artificial magentic fields didn't do anything, the Earth's certainly wouldn't. Earth's field is large but very weak. It is less than 0.6 gauss at its strongest.

>>2317604
>>2317614
All of the above, that's why the effects have been so dramatic

In soviet russia, compasses point the north-pole towards you!

>>2317621
Bravo.

>>2317619
They're calling it Colony Collapse Disorder, IIRC.

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