ScienceCasts: Hidden Magnetic Portals Around Earth

NASA Science ^ | June 28, 2012 | NASA Science

[tired&retired]

A NASA-sponsored researcher at the University of Iowa has developed a way for spacecraft to hunt down hidden magnetic portals in the vicinity of Earth. These portals link the magnetic field of our planet to that of the sun.

Excellent video on the science of our magnetosphere and how we are just learning about field reversal that open and close between earth and the sun.

[tired&retired]

Just looking for comments from our scientists at FR. I find this subject fascinating.

[bunkerhill7]

I wuz gonna say somethin` but I ain`t gonna say it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tired&retired.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tired&retired.

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[Boogieman]

These aren’t “portals” that can transport us somewhere, they are just points of interaction between the Earth’s plasma field and the Sun’s plasma field. It’s funny that NASA gets through the entire video without actually mentioning the word plasma, they keep using related terms like “magnetic field”, “energetic particles”, and “Sun’s atmosphere”. They don’t want to attribute any significance to plasma in astral phenomena, lest they give the impression that electric universe proponents are actually on to something.

[al baby]

is that what happens to socks

[BipolarBob]

Thank you.

[WorkingClassFilth]

No. Socks, by virtue of their slight static electrical charge, are prey to flux changes in the galactic electromagnetic vortexes phasing in, and out of, our space/time continuum.

[dragonblustar]

Ping for later

[Grammy]

Actually, socks mutate and turn into hangars.

[ForGod'sSake]

They don’t want to attribute any significance to plasma in astral phenomena, lest they give the impression that electric universe proponents are actually on to something.

Well said. At the point where they should have been bludgeoned into submission they will still likely deny the obvious. After several more decades of denial, they will choose up sides and then determine it to be self evident; they have known it all along.

Now, about that "dark" matter and "dark" energy...

[ElkGroveDan]

hidden magnetic portals in the vicinity of Earth

The chrono-synclastic infundibulum!

[Boogieman]

Yeah, dark matter, dark energy, what’s next? The dark force? It’s doing work that we can’t detect!

I kid, but I bet you could write a paper theorizing about a “dark force” and get a nice fat research grant.

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Postscript: Just out of curiosity, I googled “Dark Force”, and someone already beat me to it, rats!

http://old.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030722darkenergy0722p4.asp

Gotta have a dark force to explain that pesky accelerating expansion that we need to explain that pesky red shift anomaly to make it fit into our gravitational model!

[Cyber Liberty]

I guess you’re just another loser, slow on the draw.....

[Boogieman]

Yep, I missed da boat on that one :(

[skinkinthegrass]

"Actually, socks mutate and turn into hangars."Hmm...I always wondered about that..
do they turn into plastic or wire hangers...or both? 8-)

[Cyber Liberty]

Huh...what?

[Cincinnatus]

Just the research we need to develop the Solarian Bomb!

[Grammy]

I think it is just the wire ones..... tangled wire ones! Plastic hangars are useful and thus they disappear.... They become rubber bands.

[Eagles6]

AHA! I knew it! Now if any finds them I’m missing 127 left socks, white cotton size 12.