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Yes. In fact Earth's poles have shifted many times in its existence.

Random Sudden Pole Shift is a theory that proposes what would happen if Earth's poles were to suddenly and violently flip, thus casuing cataclysmic events. There is little scientific evidence to support this theory.

The scientific community recognizes "magnetic reversal." When Earth's magnetic fields do flip (i.e. What was magnetic North, becomes magnetic South), this process takes several thousand years.

Though a magnetic reversal has never been observed by modern man, primitive species of man existed during the last reversal, about 800,000 years ago. Such a reversal would not inhibit the Biology of living things; however, the effects that such a reversal would have on modern intrumentation adn technology remains to be seen.

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