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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.'"

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  1. Well-done, NASA! by TrekkieTechie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now you're thinking with portals!

    1. Re:Well-done, NASA! by tcolberg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Speedy solar particles go in, speedy solar particles come out!

    2. Re:Well-done, NASA! by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Funny

      This next magnetic field configuration is impossible...

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    3. Re:Well-done, NASA! by Lordnerdzrool · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nonsense. They are only in it for the cake at the end.

    4. Re:Well-done, NASA! by Glyphstream · · Score: 5, Funny

      Congratulations. You euthanized your NASA test module more quickly than any test subject on record.

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  2. The Summary by sokoban · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is a lie.

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    1. Re:The Summary by MrMista_B · · Score: 3, Funny

      Okay, that's good to know. Care to elaborate on why?

  3. THEMIS Probes by sokoban · · Score: 5, Funny

    Naw them ain't probes, them is aliens.

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  4. STARGATE!!!! by Macrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we just need to find Daniel Jackson.

    1. Re:STARGATE!!!! by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can't be. The Sun isn't covered in Canadian forests.

  5. Learn something new every day by Quarters · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun)

    Really? How fascinating!

    1. Re:Learn something new every day by zappepcs · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, I find this rather interesting. For me the next question is how can this, or how does this affect global climate?

    2. Re:Learn something new every day by TenDollarMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm from the day side of the earth and am really getting a kick out of these replies.

    3. Re:Learn something new every day by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Funny
      how does this affect global climate?

      It makes it warmer.

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    4. Re:Learn something new every day by tm2b · · Score: 4, Funny

      It makes it warmer.

      Every 8 minutes. We call the time 4 minutes later "mini ice minutes."

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  6. I'll elaborate for you by apparently · · Score: 5, Funny

    O <-- this is the sun.

    WHOOSH <-- this is the WHOOSH going over your head.
    . <-- you.
    o <-- this is the earth.

    1. Re:I'll elaborate for you by master5o1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      If I'm the dot, and the sun is the upper-case O, then you must be calling me fat you insensitive clod.

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    2. Re:I'll elaborate for you by WeblionX · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's a rounding error.

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  7. Re:Who tagged "!ipods"? by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    It doesn't have anything to do with iPods which is exactly why it was tagged NOT iPods.

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  8. let me be the first to say by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

    <keanureevesvoice>

    "whoa"

    </keanureevesvoice>

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    1. Re:let me be the first to say by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Funny

      And the sequel:

      <keanureevesvoice>

      "whoa"

      </keanureevesvoice>

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  9. Particles straight from the sun, by DragonTHC · · Score: 3, Funny

    and I'm still alive.

    In the sun's magnetic portal,

    and I'm still alive.

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  10. Re:Who tagged "!ipods"? by denzacar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well... it is true at least, right?

    Lets add other fun !-tags.

    Lets see... !aardvark, !aardwolf, !aargau, !aare, !aaron, !aascu...

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  11. Re:I would advise them against... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude. You've been watching wayyy too much SG-1. Really.

  12. Re:how long... by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2, Funny

    i.e. to shoot your ass into the sun at the speed of light and prevent your stupid ass from breeding?

  13. Re:how about the moon? by sumdumass · · Score: 4, Funny

    But wouldn't it be cool if it did?

  14. Teleportation by Translation+Error · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  15. Re:how long... by Firehed · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would be a terribly depressing eight minute journey. Unless you became a human comet and smashed into Mercury or something, which would just be badass.

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  16. which one? there 4 days sides to the earth by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

    you don't believe Dr. Gene Ray, Cubic and Wisest Human? don't tell me you are an academic deified Queer

    <size 36 red font>

    It is impossible for an academic
    deified Queer ONE god to give
    birth to, or breast-feed a Baby.
    Bible fraud will destroy fools,
    and they will eat one another.
    Adam and Eve never existed.
    Without profit, there is no god.
    Believers will actually eat dung
    before they will ever measure
    their queer Godism for Cubic
    Creation Truth. Just the other
    Day in the NEWS, they were
    worshipping their god image
      in Vomit.

    </size 36 red font>

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  17. Re:Planets Aligned by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is it always a trinket that gives you powers - why is it never a pair of pants or a left shoe.

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  18. Re:Another misleading headline by Tottec · · Score: 2, Funny

    RTFA

  19. I was thinking of a stargate time warp by cheekyboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  20. Re:8 light-minutes by seann · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe we can use a large sphere or ring shaped device made up of a super strong magnetic metal that can create its own gravity field.

    With this device we may be able to travel at the speed of light to the sun!

    In fact, if we increase the magnetic s of this device and focus it on another "sphere" or ring device, maybe we can travel faster than the speed of light! We could have instantaneous travel!

    Wow. Somebody should make a movie or tv show about this. We could call it Sphere Gate or The Ring .

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  21. Re:Another misleading headline by kchrist · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd rather see "Magnetic" changed to "Magic". That's how I read it at first and it sounds much better.