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what are the physiological affects of flying over the north pole?

i have heard that there are certain physiological affects when pilots fly over the north or south pole. Is this true and if so what are the affects.

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1. You'd be pretty cold, but other than that I don't think there would be anything.
2. There are no effects- First of all, even if there were effects of magnetism on human physiology (which there isnt, even in fields literally billions of times stronger than Earth's magnetic field) the *magnetic* poles are not directly over the *geographic* poles. On top of this, the area over the north and south *magnetic* poles actually had weaker magnetic force than other areas, not stronger, since the magnetic lines readiate outwards. But, all that aside-in MRI, we use incredibly strong magnetic fields-so strong you cant wear any metal around them-and it has absolutely no discernable effect on people at all.
3. If you mean the earth's North and South *magnetic* poles [they are different than the North and South geographic Poles], then maybe there is something happening due to the convergance of the earth's magnetic field--sort of like people who live under high power lines and the fields those things generate. Personally, though, I have never heard of any proven effects of exposure to magnetic fields.
4. I dunno about physiological effects, but if you fly over the North Pole you instantly change direction and head South. (The opposite is true at the South Pole.)