Remember the movie "The Core" where the earth's magnetic feild stops rotating...causing weird weather and calamity for the people of earth??
Well, our good old UWM here in Wisconsin is doing research in to this very real "possible" scenario.
Links follow:
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/feb05/299531.asp
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/feb05/299568.asp
It is reasurring to know that some of us are looking into potential things that could very easily mean the end of life as we know them.....and try to figure out the ways that things work...before it is too late (as in the movies). I just love it when "art" imitates life!
On another front, my search for my family roots is coming along and I have gleemed alot more information from different sources and have filled in quite a few holes. I am all the way back to great grandparents on both sides of my family, with dates and all. There are some holes here and there yet and I am planning on making a trip to Stevens Point in the next week or so, to do some serious digging in the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point archives. They have lots of obituraries of quite a few of my ancestors....and in looking at those, I should be able to get back a few more generations in my tree on both sides. I was up all night last night looking through some of those obituaries, which a few are posted online. Very exciting to see how my families progressed and to see names that I had heard of when I was growing up...both from my mom's side and from my dad's side. Alot of work to do though yet. I hope eventually to be able to go back to Europe on both sides and get a feeling for where both families originated from back in midevil times. A daunting task, like I said before, but it is so rewarding when I come across another positive link in my history.
Happy Monday.......
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