Strange Portal Connects Earth to Sun

[dannyboy]

Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer

space.com Mon Nov 3, 8:31 am ET

Like giant, cosmic chutes between the Earth and sun, magnetic portals open up every eight minutes or so to connect our planet with its host star.

Once the portals open, loads of high-energy particles can travel the 93 million miles (150 million km) through the conduit during its brief opening, space scientists say.

Called a flux transfer event, or FTE, such cosmic connections not only exist but are possibly twice as common as anyone ever imagined, according to space scientists who attended the 2008 Plasma Workshop in Huntsville, Ala., last week.

"Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible," said David Sibeck, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

Rest of article here. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20081103/sc_space/strangeportalconnectsearthtosun)

[markalot]

flux capacitor!

[frizgolf]

Tap the Sun! Our energy woes are over!

[bestlaidplans]

Tap the Sun! Our energy woes are over!

Yeah, until the sun nears death and swallows the Earth. :D

[drougan]

Yeah, until the sun nears death and swallows the Earth. :D

Well the earth ought to be extinct by then anyway.

Besides....I'm sure if we're really creative we'd find a way to siphon off the Helium in the Sun and replace it with Hydrogen, thus ensuring a steady state fusion reaction. No problems. ;)

[juggles]

Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer

space.com Mon Nov 3, 8:31 am ET

Like giant, cosmic chutes between the Earth and sun, magnetic portals open up every eight minutes or so to connect our planet with its host star.

Once the portals open, loads of high-energy particles and every other sock in your dryer can travel the 93 million miles (150 million km) through the conduit during its brief opening, space scientists say.

Called a flux transfer event, or FTE, such cosmic connections not only exist but are possibly twice as common as anyone ever imagined, according to space scientists who attended the 2008 Plasma Workshop in Huntsville, Ala., last week.

"Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible," said David Sibeck, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

Rest of article here. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20081103/sc_space/strangeportalconnectsearthtosun)

FTFY. This could answer a lot of questions.