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Sariaht
Aug24-04, 12:34 PM
Why can't the earth's magnetic field go bazooka!

It's made of iron and it's got poles...

Nenad
Aug24-04, 01:04 PM
arent flares a product of extrememly high magnetic fields, and plasma reactions. Also, our magnetosphere is too bisy protectiong us from the suns flares in order to have its own.

Sariaht
Aug24-04, 01:23 PM
Perhaps these things that errupts after flares are caused by fusion within a rotating body, causing a flow that changes it's magnetic field, why planets can't have them unless it's core is made of pure uranium or something.

Sariaht
Aug27-04, 08:11 AM
No, I meant the corona: Perhaps the corona is caused by fusion within a rotating body, causing a flow that changes it's magnetic field, why planets can't have them unless it's core is made of pure uranium or something.

Nenad
Aug27-04, 11:32 AM
What would uranium have to do with anything. The sun is made up of a lot of hydrogen. Wery little uranium.