Big huge mclarge magnetic ropes develop between the earth and the sun

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every 8 minutes or so. Current flows along these magnetic ropes.... these ropes power the Aurora Borealis. Who knew???

These "ropes" are the diameter of the earth often times... that's some hemp. Quite often the current flowing from the sun to the earth creates explosions in the bow shock of the earth.




http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/12/magnetic_ropes_power_40kmh_aur.html

A pathway for this power has also been uncovered - twisted bundles of magnetic fields dubbed ‘magnetic ropes’. “The satellites have found evidence of magnetic ropes connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun. We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras,” says David Sibeck, project scientist for the mission at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

THEMIS also spotted explosions where the solar wind first feels our planet’s magnetic field, an area known as the bow shock. “Sometimes a burst of electrical current within the solar wind will hit the bow shock and—Bang! We get an explosion,” says Sibeck.

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1. I've alerted BigMcLargeHuge nt

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2. Oooooh, that's where I got that from, my bad will edit. n/t

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3. He will be disappointed nt

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4. Oh... if that's the case I'll edit again... this is so confusing. n/t

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5. Thanks!

:yourock:

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6. I don't know if you clicked on the link or not but just the same, check

out this number.... reminds me of doc in Back to the Future...

In March this year satellites and ground-based instruments from THEMIS observed an eruption in the Northern Lights over Canada. This substorm was witnessed moving at over 39,000 kilometres per hour and it is estimated that its total power consumption during its two-hour life was a colossal five hundred thousand billion Joules

[Xipe Totec]

16. It sounded familiar to me

So I went back and checked...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3671825

But this is the one that came to mind first:

Mysterious Movement Seen in Aurora Borealis Caused by Explosions of Magnetic Energy:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x42296

[MagickMuffin]

7. Nova Science Now has a lot of info about this

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0304/02-nort-nf.html


I'll look more into this. Thx for posting :thumbsup:

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[unkachuck]

8. it sure would nice....

....to have some way to tap into all that energy and lower my electric bill....maybe a huge coil on several large weather balloons tethered to my back porch with copper cables....

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9. Yeah, a kite, string and a key wouldn't get very far... too bad.

An artist's conception of an aurora (red and green stripes) appears over a series of NASA ground stations (blue circles) used to monitor a series of orbiting satellites dubbed THEMIS.

New findings from the THEMIS probes suggests that the northern lights, or aurora borealis, are fueled by magnetic "ropes" linking the sun and Earth.

Image courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

[unkachuck]

15. isn't....

....it our earths magnetic field produced from currents in our molten iron core that keeps the solar wind from blowing away our atmosphere? Wouldn't these magnetic 'ropes' have the potential to distort and possibly damage our magnetic field?

....I'm calling Dr. Mbogo first thing in the morning....

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25. Take two 30 kilovolt batteries and call me in the morning

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Where'd you get the 8 minutes number?

Get confused about the light-distance between the earth and the sun?

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12. Ancient chinese secret... now this is a cool graphic....

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0304/02-nort-nf.html

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[Roland99]

19. Won't be long til some scam artist comes out with 7-minute magnetic ropes

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20. Surely you jest... 8 is the number ACCORDING to the

woo woos at NASA... never mind the mention of flux transfer and electricity and all the other nonsensical stuff. You just keep eating your corn puffs and pretend this is an article from The Onion.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30oct_ftes.htm





There are many unanswered questions: Why do the portals form every 8 minutes? How do magnetic fields inside the cylinder twist and coil? "We're doing some heavy thinking about this at the Workshop," says Sibeck.

Meanwhile, high above your head, a new portal is opening, connecting your planet to the sun.

[geckosfeet]

14. Wow. Now there is an unlimited source of power.

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17. Oh yeah.... another graphic gives a better idea of just how much

sh*t is flying around out there...





The hear of the sun's atmosphere propels charged particles and strong magnetic fields outward as a solar wind. The Earth's magnetic field (blue) is distorted by the fierce wind as the solar energy seeks a way in. The five THEMIS probes, strung out like pearls on a string in their orbit around Earth, hope to discover how and where the solar energy leaks through the magnetosphere and generates the Northern and Southern Lights. (Note that the figure is not to scale.). (NASA image)
Five satellites launched last February to probe magnetic storms around the Earth will move into prime observing position next month, but they already have produced important new information on the interactions between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field.

[MisterP]

21. here's a nastier-looking one

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22. You my good DUer have nailed my wallpaper down for me, thanks

too much. It is interesting that the earth charges the surface of the moon to hudreds if not thousands of volts once a month... prepare for incoming.

[awoke_in_2003]

27. behold...

the Flying Spaghetti Monster protecting us from solar radiation :rofl:

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28. DUZY!!! Absolutely. No question about it. n/t

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29. Hey, I always said...

if a god could show up and prove himself, I would believe :hi:

[MisterP]

30. I mean, if that's gas streaming toward us, it's YELLOW

and if it's liquid, it's spattering rhythmically right in Earth's face (Kate Millett wouldn't mind)

[MagickMuffin]

18. Q & A with Vassilis Angelopoulos

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0304/02-ask.html

Vassilis Angelopoulos is Principal Investigator, as well as general questions about the aurora and magnetosphere. Please note we are no longer accepting questions, but see Northern Lights and our Links & Books section for more information.

[RedCloud]

23. I read we're in the outer corona of the sun. Nice to know Sol gives us a life rope.

Eight minutes? Speed of light too from the center of Sol?

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24. No... go here for an explanation

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30oct_ftes.htm

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26. Answering myself to add this graphic...

[rucky]

31. I send my boy out to get some milk, he comes home with these "magic beans"

now look.