NASA: Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

[YayFun]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html

 

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[Electrk²]

oh my god

[Ceist]

now we can start more funding on teleportation technology and send stuff to the sun!

[Bisjac]

sounds pointless till you realize we can remove nuclear waste or anything unneeded.

[Harm94]

and then open a portal to hell on Mars unleashing an army of daemons.

[Squideey]

I don't think they should have used the word "portal". Perhaps "vortex" would be a better choice.

[Fastlex]

Sorry, I divided by zero.

[fawkes..]

That's cool, really cool.

[Wheatley]

sounds pointless till you realize we can remove nuclear waste or anything unneeded.

good point
i was gonna make that point until i read that you already did, forget

[Cargøn]

good point
i was gonna make that point until i read that you already did, forget

Hey guys we accidentally polluted the earth
LET'S POLLUTE THE SUN!

[Ceist]

Hey guys we accidentally polluted the earth
LET'S POLLUTE THE SUN!

it's not like the sun isn't plasma

[YayFun]

it's not like the sun isn't plasma

Throw a pin head at the sun and watch it do something amazing.

[SWAT One]

Throw a pin head at the sun and watch it do something amazing.

Vaporize within several million miles of the sun and due to radioactive ionic bombardment, fall apart and combust.  If you put said pin just outside of the atmosphere, it will already be at the Draper point.

Yay for Earth Waste Management.

Except I read something somewhere (wish I found the source) where a particle appeared in a particle accelerator and disappeared almost instantly.  So hopefully this doesn't give a Half-Life 1 scenario where we start teleporting matter inside of matter.

[lordician]

What cat?
This sounds pretty cool, but can we transport stuff through such portals?

[Demian]

What exactly is the point of this? Cool yes, but how is it any different from sending a craft through the sun's magnetic field? Does it really mess with the craft that much?