A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field

Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by dooper

 

The breach was caused by fluctuations in the solar wind. It was not caused by a weakening or shifting of Earth's magnetic field.

Originally posted by warrenb
so what does this all mean?

Originally posted by Phage
No.
The magnetosphere does little to protect us from solar and cosmic radiation. Our atmosphere does that.

The magnetosphere helps to shield the ionosphere from the solar wind. The solar wind is not composed of high energy particles.

Originally posted by squiz

No magnetosphere no atmosphere, so yes it does protect us. it will deflect the solar wind depending on the polarity of the interplanetary magnetic field. otherwise it redirects the particles along the field earths lines at the poles to cause aurora.
I'm a little confused at what your saying here. Or are you talking about uv radiation?

Yeah, the solar wind isn't composed of high energy particles of the likes of cosmic rays, however there are solar cosmic rays (stupid name) from flares. depends on your definition of high energy I guess, solar cosmic rays can be up to 10 billion eV. I'd call that high energy.

ScienceDaily.com (Dec. 16, 2008)


CINDI and C/NOFS were designed to study disturbances in Earth's ionosphere that can result in a disruption of navigation and communication signals. The ionosphere is a gaseous envelope of electrically charged particles that surrounds our planet and it is important because Radar, radio waves, and global positioning system signals can be disrupted by ionospheric disturbances.

CINDI's first discovery was, however, that the ionosphere was not where it had been expected to be. During the first months of CINDI operations the transition between the ionosphere and space was found to be at about 260 miles (420 km) altitude during the nighttime, barely rising above 500 miles (800 km) during the day. These altitudes were extraordinarily low compared with the more typical values of 400 miles (640 km) during the nighttime and 600 miles (960 km) during the day.

The height of the ionosphere/space transition is controlled in part by the amount of extreme ultraviolet energy emitted by the Sun and a somewhat contracted ionosphere could have been expected because C/NOFS was launched during a minimum in the 11-year cycle of solar activity. However, the size of the actual contraction caught investigators by surprise. In fact, when they looked back over records of solar activity, they found that C/NOFS had been launched during the quietest solar minimum since the space age began.

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Originally posted by zorgon

Originally posted by warrenb
so what does this all mean?

Cancel Xmas?

That hole is right over the North Pole

Originally posted by welivefortheson
heres a nice little method to reach the god(devil) machine who is the core of the earth,

build an array of orbital mirrors which are alligned to reflect to a central point,fire all the worlds lasers at them,and presto you have an extremely powerful burrowing tool which will reach the core within weeks or months.

once youve reached it,ahh the devilmachine is at our mercy!

all the governemnts who thought he and his ai slaves couldnt be fought and we must just survive(pretty funny since there turning earth into a waterworld rendering thier rabbit holes and undeground bases useless,more like sink holes),well there wrong,now we know where he is and how to get to him!

www.actionext.com...
can we dig you out,yes we can!

Originally posted by basilray if something does not look a bit imminent and culminating to an event then slap me silly.

On November 17 and 18, 2008 nine H-Bombs were exploded below the Arctic Ocean, near the North Magnetic Pole, within Canadian waters. The explosions were concentrated in an area about 16 km by 16 km (10 miles by 10 miles), were in the 5 to 10 Megaton range, all were 10 km (6.2 miles) deep. They punched a hole in the crust and will allow petroleum from the bottom of the crust to leak into the Arctic Ocean. This could destroy life in large sections of the area.