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Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth
MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered evidence of magnetic portals connecting the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through.'"
"Magnetic Portals Connect the Solar Wind and the Earth's Magnetosphere" would be much better.
Now you're thinking with portals!
Is the Earth-Sun distance. Coincidence?
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Is a lie.
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Naw them ain't probes, them is aliens.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
how long until we can make use of this to gain FTL drives? or better yet Magnetic/Energy Force Barriers
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Now we just need to find Daniel Jackson.
Really? How fascinating!
From what I gather from one quote in the article, scientists always suspected these; it's the fact that it's not a constant connection that was news.
I read the article in 3 minutes, that only gives a 37.5% chance of a magnetic portal.
IBM doesn't play chess with the Universe.
Please, for the love of Helios and Demeter, spell out throw-away acronyms in summaries. It's annoying to read "Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form", and not being told what an FTE is. I really shouldn't have to RTFA[1] to discover that FTE = "Flux Transfer Event". It throws me off track when I read "how FTE are formed", and my brain translates to "how Frozen Talking Elephants are formed".
[1] If you need this acronym spelt out, perhaps you should be on digg.
wouldn't it be cool if the moon had the same effect?
the main plot device for next summer's blockbuster movie (tentatively titled "Star Portal").
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PS. Porno directors are already casting for the X-rated adaptation, tentatively titled "Star Hole"
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What could this possibly have to do with iPods? How could it possibly be confused with them?
Can anyone point me to some info on WHY the electric universe people are kooks?
Lately I find some of the EU theories easier to accept than "majick" dark matter, dark energy, and magnetic fields with no electric current.
"Magnetic reconnection" really?
Better hope other theoretical and imaginary lines don't start acting up!
FTA:
"the cylindrical portals tend to form above Earth's equator and then roll over Earth's winter pole"
I wonder if that's why the aurora borealis seems to crawl across the sky. I seem to remember (from when I lived in the high north) that it happened in fairly regular intervals. The "every eight minuets" seems to ring true as the time between each pass of the light though I haven't been there in eight years so I might just be remembering it wrong.
It is 93 million miles, or 8.32 light minutes, separating Sun and Earth (center to center) -- the magnetosphere will be slightly less. Coincidence? I hope they are investigating some sort of possible resonance or standing wave that is directly related to this distance.
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How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
O <-- this is the sun.
WHOOSH <-- this is the WHOOSH going over your head.
. <-- you.
o <-- this is the earth.
So something cool might actually happen when all the planets are aligned? Portal from Sun to Neptune?
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and I'm still alive.
In the sun's magnetic portal,
and I'm still alive.
They're using their grammar skills there.
Could this be how Adam Strange's "Zeta" beam worked?
This article is about magnetic portals. Portal is also the title of a first-person adventure game for PC developed and published by Valve. One of the catchphrases from Portal is "The cake is a lie!", hence sokoban's comment "The summary is a lie".
"On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth."
"VERSATILE"!!!! LOL!!!
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
(a) this is Slashdot, and (b) this is Halloween. How on Earth do you expect to find a sensible summary given a juxtaposition like that?
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Good news every one!
So... is it the orange portal or blue portal... and where do you come out?
stepping through the portal.
I imagine this is a long shot. But, if these are magnetic. Could we in some conceivable fashion use them to make energy?
I'll wait for this to be confirmed by Richard Dean Anderson.
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Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly..."reconnect"
My Sun-based Unencrypted Linksys router Wi-Fi connectivity is so shitty.
Stupid 8 minute latency, fukin' wit my ASCII internet pr0n.
this is clearly further evidence of climate change! when will the authorities act? yet another sign of global warming, willfully ignored in the service of corporate greed! outrage. several committees must be formed, at once. they should proceed to publicly interogate someone to answer for these magnetic portals.
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.
I suppose the other planets might have these portals too. Makes me view the new-age beliefs about "harmonic convergence", celestial alignment and astrology in a different light.
Still crap, but mildly more interesting crap.
porÂtal
n.
1. A doorway, entrance, or gate, especially one that is large and imposing.
I think it is safe to use the word "hole" in place of "portal" here. I do not see anything magically skipping through ala Portal the Valve way. There is just a hole popping open in our magnetic shield every 8 minutes due to interference from another field.
> (a) this is Slashdot, and (b) this is Halloween. How on Earth do you expect to find a sensible summary given a juxtaposition like that?
(c) That headline is too long.
It's (c) that kills a lot of good headlines, honestly, but there's only so much space on the front page for those headlines to fit.
The summary can't be the cake because the cake is a lie!
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I'm going outside and talk to the Earth about: "no glove, no love".
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
These portals I suspect are just a series of tubes.
The sun is just like a big truck that dumps particles into these tubes and it can be an enormous amount of material.
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m/(FTE|TheForce|Terramagnetoscope.net|Portal2Vega)/i
At the moment he's busy smoking cigars with Captain Kirk.
(Hint: I'm talking about the Dr. Daniel Jackson from the movie Stargate (1994).)
So if I understand portals correctly, there is a portal page, that connects to some intermediary tubes that eventually connect to the back end. So in this sense, we have root access to the hard drive of the solar system? Coolness!
I predict this is the key that will finally unlock the secret of teleporting matter! Unfortunately, it will only allow us to teleport things directly to the sun...
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On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun),
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
This was a triumph.
you are so stupid! ha ha i laugh! so dumb!
"When the Sun shines upon Earth, 2 - major Time points are created on opposite sides of Earth - known as Midday and Midnight. Where the 2 major Time forces join, synergy creates 2 new minor Time points we recognize as Sunup and Sundown." Hate to say it but Gene Ray is sounding less and less bat-shyte as science learns more. :P
Exactly!
Could this be used to detect planets (which have a magnetic field)? The delay between subsequent magnetic portal anomalies should give approximate distance from central Sun to the planet.
And do other planets (with magnetic fields) exhibit this magnetic portal as well? Then the Sun should somehow contain a magnetic "signal" which is a superposition of all of those. With Fourier analysis we should be able to make out the components, thus finding out how many planets (with magnetic fields) there are and their distances from the central star.
And a bit more sci-fi idea: could we use this for communication purposes - make the Sun or the portal "ring" with our message? Kind of like lighting a big enough lamp to be seen from a further distance.
And something to think about: how do binary stars behave... Are they in resonance?
The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through."
Were they wearing adequate protection?! What's the Vatican's position on astro-bortion?! Even astro-slut portals have rights!
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And if you combine with a solar flare at the right time do we get to go back to 1969 in the age of cheap intel shares, and cheap pot and free lsd?
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Looks related to this research done in the late seventies.
C.T. Russell and R.C. Elphic. ISEE observations of flux transfer events at the dayside mangetopause. Geophyiscal Research Letters, vol. 6, pp.33-36, 1979.
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The British political cartoonist Steve Bell has always used the Superman reference (if Superman is so smart why does he wear his pants(i.e. US underpants) outside his trousers) - he represented the Prime Minister John Major as wearing his underpants outside his trousers so as to try to be like Superman. When Blair become PM, Bell drew him as wearing "the pants of power". So, here in the UK, it is indeed a pair of pants that convey (political) power.
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Light travels from Sun to Earth (and a tiny amount reflects in the opposite direction) for 8 minutes at c, lightspeed. If the portal's cycle period varies the same way that the distance varies, 93-97 million miles from perigee to apogee, there's more clearly a relationship between the two phenomena.
If not, it's an uncanny coincidence. Like how the Sun and the Moon, each very different in size and in distance from the Earth, coincidentally appear to be about exactly the same size in the sky, as we see during total solar eclipses.
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I'm sure the Daleks are behind this.
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Sibeck also predicts we'll find god in the center of the galaxy. Let him take your pain away...
We'll all need tinfoil hats every 8 minutes...
I18N == Intergalacticization
Every eight minutes because of the speed of light taking that time to get here. This is happening constantly, as our sun is always shining. Perhaps (E)Magnetics play a bigger role than mere gravity in tying us together?
8 minutes = 7.5 times an hour = 180 times a day = every 2 degree rotation angle
Is this something new? Is this what's changing the climate? And before you start with the "No because ..." bear in mind that the real answer is ... we don't know.
From the article:
"Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible."
"We used to think the connection was permanent and that solar wind could trickle into the near-Earth environment anytime the wind was active," says Sibeck. "We were wrong. The connections are not steady at all. They are often brief, bursty and very dynamic."
"Passive FTEs may not be very important, but until we know more about them we can't be sure."
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Possibly the most grippingly magnetic thing I've seen in some time.
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Gentlemen, gentlemen- PLEASE!
Let us have some decorum here!
Perhaps we need an arbiter.
I suggest the distinguished author of The Timecube!
Are we all agreed?
Now then, which one of us will contact him?
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Was Stevens the Al Gore of the deep space magento-net?
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