Spacecraft May Surf Magnetic Fields

Maggie McKee writes "Future spacecraft may surf the magnetic fields of Earth and other planets, taking previously unfeasible routes around the solar system, according to a proposal funded by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts. The electrically charged craft would not need rockets or propellant of any kind. To get charged up, the spacecraft could either fire a beam of charged particles into space or simply allow a radioactive isotope to emit charged particles. Because long, thin filaments have large surface areas for holding charge, the spacecraft might look like Einstein's head — with wiry filaments sticking out at all angles — or a weird space 'stocking.'"

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The magnetic field of the sun is pretty strong but of course is highly variable. At one point in 2005 (about the time we got the strong hurricanes) there were several Coronal Mass Ejections that left the sun riding its field at extreme speeds. By the time one of them passed earth (29 minutes after ejection) the matter was going 15% of the speed of light. By the time the same CME passed Saturn, the matter was going 30% of the speed of light.

People get this right! The solar system is electrical. The whole universe is electrically driven. I know that there are a lot of people out there who just don't get it. That CME that went out so fast..., It had a substantial mass being a large fraction of the mass of the earth. In order to accelerate a mass like this and have it get faster going further and further out the charge on the grid that drives this is nearly beyond calculation. Just for the record all CME's accelerate going out though many are hardly as fast as the 2005 ones. This proves something a lot of people are unwilling to see. The sun is electrical and not NUCLEAR. The neutrinos are missing folks. If the sun was nuclear, the CME's would decelerate on exit from the sun. The Corona would be colder than the surface of the sun. The Corona is 2 million degrees and the surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees.

This electrical reality is the source of the X-Ray emissions in the universe. It causes sun spots and CME's. It explains the forms we see in the universe. It represents the action of a field that is 10^39 times that of any G field that exists. It removes the need to explain things as "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" and it deletes those famous "Black Holes" and sadly for a lot of people who are just enchanted with the cute theories, it clobbers the "Big Bang." It also disrupts most of the accepted theory but here we see the electrical universe is real and it works. Now we are going to use if for propulsion. The wind is a blowing and it is going to blow away the old theories. Of course the course of science still advances one funeral at a time. I am sure some one of the old guys will declare me Troll rather than accept the obvious reality. Get a life if you disagree or post against me but forget the Troll stuff because I am not being troll to tell the truth.