It’s not a funnel in space.
It’s aliens.
And even if it is a funnel in space...it was created by aliens.
Not the illegal kind either :)
NASA has become welfare for unemployed scientists—and public relations hacks.
Man on the moon—any day now, any day now....
Silly. It is most likely something to do with atributes of the magnetosphere at the poles; just as why you don’t get “northern lights” except at the poles.
Here’s the problem. Now when do I get my grant money?
Ththis stuff has been happening since time began. All of a sudden it is a crisis.
Solution: more gubmint munny. Money! Money! Money! Or we will all die soon. (Rant finished
Weren’t the magnetic poles supposed to reverse any day now? Maybe that’s what’s happening.
There is good earth science being conducted, using new sensors that take measurements in spectrums we haven’t collected in before, and enhancing our understanding of the very complex environment around our planet. I don’t fault nasa for that. But I would say articles like this that dumb those activities down to the level they do are a public relations failure of massive proportion on nasa’s part. They make it sound like we are learning all over again what we have known for 70 years now. (For many that may be true)
This folks is why we’re twenty-two trillion in the hole.
Climate change causes black poles.
The energy dumped into the depths of the atmosphere during a CME is totally neglected.
Ion flux is totally ignored.
The magnetic energy from a solar flare that dumps enough energy to compress and distort the earth's magnetic field and induce powerful electrical currents is totally ignored.
The heat delivered directly to the asphalt in your parking lot is ignored.
Worse, when a solar flare dumps energy onto the earth, in terms of upper atmosphere absorption, the total energy accounted for in the climate models paradoxically DROPS as the X-rays, induced currents, and and particle bursts don't effectively couple to the upper atmosphere!
One comprehensive source for this is here.
Magnetic or true north? If magnetic, then it can probably be explained by the charged particles from space hitting the atmosphere producing noise in the frequency ranges of the gadgets that use those frequencies.
NASA’s primary mission should be to help private space companies bypass useless government regulation.
Isn’t NASA on board with the current 12 year climate change hysteria? If so, then what’s the use of studying anything? We’re all gonna die if we don’t kill prosperity right now anyway, right?
When was the last known time that the poles flipped?
All of this measuring and data collection should help scientists better understand what they’re dealing with, and better predict how the cusp is going to behave in the future – which is crucial if we’re going to avoid serious interference with our low-orbit and Earth technology systems.
“help scientists better understand what they’re dealing with”
What can PUNY humans do about this cosmic event? NOTHING!
“predict how the cusp is going to behave in the future”
“predict the future”. Now there is a worthy cause./s Taxpayer and grant money spent on TRYING to predict the future, which we all know is IMPOSSIBLE!
“which is crucial if we’re going to avoid serious interference with our low-orbit and Earth technology systems.”
Oh yeah? Let me see, has there been any “serious interference” with our low-orbit and Earth technology systems over let’s say the last almost FIFTY (50) years?
“...the polar cusp was discovered simultaneously at both low and high altitudes in 1971,...”
1971.
I think a vast majority of “our low-orbit and Earth technology systems” have been developed SINCE 1971.
Also the “cusp (s)” (although I just heard of this “cusp” for the first time today) were DISCOVERED in 1971. Meaning they likely ALWAYS existed. (created by God for His purposes)
No wonder I got lost in Poland.
If you want on or off the Electric Universe/Plasma Ping List, Freepmail me.
My kid is on the flight operations team at NASA for one of these missions.
Could it be that the solar winds feed ions into the core, causing it to keep expanding, causing plate drifts? The solar winds funneled into the earth add matter to the core?