> Do you think the shift in the magnetic poles could have anything to do
with the bees?

Bees are said to have appeared about 120 million years ago.
The Earth's magnetic poles reverse at a mean interval of roughly every
45,000 years.
So, since bees have been around, the Earth's magnetic poles have reversed
2,666 times.
So bees have survived thousands of pole-reversals unharmed.

While magnetic declination does vary over human lifetimes, it is limited.
When I was a boy, the average in the Skyline Drive area west of DC where our
Cub Scout troop learned maps-and-compasses was about -8 degrees, and now it
is nearly -11 degrees, changing by about 1 minute (one 60th of a degree)
every year.   But this has no connection to magnetic pole reversal, which
appear from the fossil records to happen suddenly.  So the magnetic north
pole will never wander over to be in Nebraska or Kinshasa.

Speaking of South and  North, those living on or near the Eastern Seaboard
of the USA between Boston and Myrtle Beach should look South if they live in
the North, and to the North  if they live in the South at about 6:20pm EDT
tomorrow, Tuesday, 10/28/14.

Antares' launch from Wallops Island VA  was scrubbed tonight (reportedly
because some moron in a boat sailed right into the restricted area where
they might get bopped on the head by a discarded solid-rocket booster).

Roughly a minute after the launch (see below for Ustream link below to live
TV feed, pre-game show starts at 5:30pm EDT), you should see both the flames
from the boosters and the sun reflecting off the rocket itself.

Maps and timing below.  For example, here in NYC, we would count off about
120 seconds before the rocket would appear above our southern horizon.
The track will run from west to east, and it will easily be higher than any
tree or building

https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/2014/10/27/viewing-opportunities-antares-laun
ch-space-station-fly-over/
http://tinyurl.com/poq3cxx

Video Feed:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops

What's Antares?  The company Orbital Sciences build the Antares rocket to
put their "Cygnus" unmanned cargo vessel into an orbit that will rendezvous
with the International Space Station and resupply them.

Little known trivia - the ISS has to be stocked with candy every Halloween
for any trick-or-treaters that might show up from Tau Ceti e or elsewhere.
Diplomacy has to happen even when it won't happen, you see. 

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