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THE POLAR MYSTERIES<br />
I37<br />
has shrunk like an orange while its core cooled off and has<br />
formed four continents and four big oceans that keep moving all<br />
the time and travel from one geographical location to another<br />
very, very slowly in relation to the rotational axis of our planet.<br />
These global movements could be called the polar rounds and<br />
they make it difficult to calculate the correlations between<br />
different measurement systems in different countries of the world<br />
if these systems are many thousands of years old.<br />
It is necessary to know the displacements of the poles to come<br />
up with the right results,<br />
because each local standard of measurement<br />
varies with time. This is why I am convinced that only a<br />
system of measurement that does not change with the polar<br />
rounds could survive the time, and this system could only be<br />
based upon the unchanging circumference of our globe, not the<br />
changing longitudes and latitudes. The metric system is like that,<br />
and it must be as old as humanity itself.<br />
Not too long ago the geologists discovered that the hard outer<br />
crust of our earth floats<br />
on a molten mantle and that continents<br />
rest on separate tectonic plates. There are direct relations between<br />
the sliding of the plates and the changing of the polar ice<br />
caps, and what interests us here are the dates when these<br />
changes took place and their influence upon the lives of our ancestors.<br />
It appears that, in round figures, the poles remain stationary<br />
for periods of about 30,000 years, then move around for<br />
6,000 years, then again stay put for 30,000 years, and so on.<br />
Scientists have estabhshed that the last four rounds of the<br />
poles started 126,000 years ago when the North Pole installed itself<br />
in the territory of Yukon in Canada at 63° N and 135° W;<br />
then it went to the Greenland Sea at 72° N and 10° E about<br />
84,000 years ago, moved from 54,000 till 48,000 years ago and<br />
settled in the middle of Hudson Bay at 60° N and 83° W; it<br />
rested there for 30,000 years;<br />
then wandered again from about<br />
18,000 to about 12,000 years ago when it came to its present<br />
location. Simultaneously the South Pole went through similar<br />
gyrations but in the opposite direction. We have to note that its<br />
three previous locations were in their turn in the southern part<br />
of the Indian Ocean between Australia and the Antarctic but<br />
never on Antarctica itself. Only the last movement 12,000 years