Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field 200
Velorium writes "The Earth's magnetic field has been found to have two large holes that are making Earth's surface vulnerable to solar winds. Despite what scientists originally thought, these holes allow 20 times the normal amount of solar particles through when they are facing away from the sun. This is the opposite of what the scientists had first speculated."
The price of aluminum will skyrocket... (Score:5, Funny)
I saw this in "The Core" (Score:5, Funny)
A bright shaft of light is going to sneak through the hole in the field and melt the Golden Gate Bridge. Just you wait.
At least we can be safe at night. ...Probably...
Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
If global warming is presumably caused by SUVs, what are holes in the magnetic field caused by? Too many cell phones?
The results of a runaway experiment after "Bring your daughter to work day" at Aperture Science?
Earth's Taint (Score:2, Funny)
I am wondering what is between the two large holes?
Re:1st Comment! (Score:3, Funny)
[citation needed]
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
My guess is that the holes are caused by violent video games.
Re:I saw this in "The Core" (Score:4, Funny)
Never fear, scientists have almost perfected the synthesis of "unobtainium"
Re:Earth's Taint (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
but its ok, they were doing it for the cake
Re:I saw this in "The Core" (Score:5, Funny)
At least we can be safe at night.
...these holes allow 20 times the normal amount of solar particles through when they are facing away from the sun
Well, so much for being safe at night...
Ah sorry guys (Score:5, Funny)
I left my ACME Megalaser of Doom plugged in overnight, on the 'degaussing' setting. Honestly, I thought it was just on 'charge'.
Awfully sorry. It won't happen again. Promise.
There's a hole (Score:5, Funny)
There's a hole in the Mag Field dear Liza, a hole.
So fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
So fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, FIX IT,
With what should I fix it, dear Liza dear Liza,
With what should I fix it, dear Liza with what?
With a Greenie, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
With a Greenie, dear Henry, dear Henry, with Greenie's (sigh),
Regards
Slashdot Girl
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ah sorry guys (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry to go off topic, but did you ever notice how quick ACME's shipping was? As soon as Wiley Coyote or Bugs Bunny dropped a letter in the mail, a truck arrived within seconds with his package. The logistics behind their supply chain management was incredible. Sure, they were A Company that Makes Everything, but I was always impressed on their shipping response time.
probably need lead, instead (Score:5, Funny)
ironic in the Alanis Morissette sense (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking of tin foil (Score:5, Funny)
Mayans (Score:4, Funny)
Quote from TFA:
"Understanding how these holes form will help them better predict the electrical storms that cause power grid blackouts and the aurora, activity that will peak in 2012 as sunspots hit their maximum level."
Please God let Diablo III come out before then.
Large Hadron Collider (Score:3, Funny)
Heh. You guys thought they took it offline because it had a little glitch.
Re:1st Comment! (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently the holes let "first post"-ers through as well.
Re:Ah sorry guys (Score:1, Funny)
Talking to yourself again, AC? ... oh wait...
Somebody tore the Earth a second hole... (Score:2, Funny)
Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
Did the tag just tell me to tap it?
If Hip-Hop has told me anything, it is to tap any hole that is tappable. I am jealous that the physicists have outdone us again. :(
Re:There's a hole (Score:5, Funny)
With what should I fix it, dear Liza dear Liza
With Henries [wikipedia.org], of course!
Re:Earth's Taint (Score:5, Funny)
"The Earth's magnetic field has been found to have two large holes that are making Earth's surface vulnerable to solar winds"
I am wondering what is between the two large holes?
A region of the earth known as the magnetic perineum.
Re:Earth's Taint (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2, Funny)
awww jeez. I bet its that damn LHC again. If it's not causing tiny black holes in our atmosphere it's making large gaping holes in our magnetic field.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
If global warming is presumably caused by SUVs, what are holes in the magnetic field caused by? Too many cell phones?
No; it's from an attempt to create a magnetic field that uses twenty percent less magnetism; they create holes that cover 20% of the field. It's known as the Eco-Magnetic field.
that's no holes! (Score:2, Funny)
They are Magneto's sisters!
Re:I saw this in "The Core" (Score:3, Funny)
A bright shaft of light is going to sneak through the hole in the field and melt the Golden Gate Bridge. Just you wait.
It's the attack of the killer pigeons I'm worried about. Everybody should get out of urban areas and stock up on shotgun shells now, just in case.
Re:Speaking of tin foil (Score:5, Funny)
before the LHC "we see nothing". And now, after the LHC was turned on... "oh, look at the too shiny two holes!" - coincidence?
Before LHC: George W. Bush.
After LHC: Barack Obama.
I think we need more high energy physics expirements.
Re:I saw this in "The Core" (Score:4, Funny)
At least we can be safe at night. ...Probably...
They mostly come at night... mostly...
Acme Re:Ah sorry guys (Score:4, Funny)
ACMEis a large mulitfaceted industrial and services company that owns both a package delivery conglomerate which includes matter replication and temporal transmission systems. Since they are a large monopoly spanning not only Earth but several thousand inhabited systems in several hundred universes they have access to a wide array of products and services and the ability to deliver them to customers who subjectively observe that delivery occurs nearly instantaneously.
Their only failing is having some of the parts for that system made in China.
No one has explained how Bugs Bunny could always get good product though it has been postulated he had the uncanny ability to manipulate events at a quantum level and ensure positive outcomes at the macro level.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
George Bush. Everything is his fault.
Expect the holes to start closing in about five weeks.
Re:Large Hadron Collider (Score:4, Funny)
Compared to some of the worst case scenarios from certain sections of the media and assorted doom-mongers it was a little glitch. A big glitch would have gone something like:
Scientist 1: What's that strange glow...
Scientist 2: I don't know but its getting bigger...
Diety of choice: Whoops. There goes Eath, time to build another but I'll fit a circuit breaker this time...
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I saw this in "The Core" (Score:4, Funny)
A bright shaft of light is going to sneak through the hole in the field and melt the Golden Gate Bridge. Just you wait.
It's the attack of the killer pigeons I'm worried about. Everybody should get out of urban areas and stock up on shotgun shells now, just in case.
Eeep, I don't know whether you should be modded funny or insightful.
Re:probably need lead, instead (Score:4, Funny)
mmmm... me-jelly...