Northern Lights

“Someone else may have posted on this, but I saw the Aurora Borealis Monday night! I live in Northern Illinois and it is the first time I have seen them since leaving Alaska. Did anyone else here see them?

I know someone posted a link to a "Space Weather" site not too long ago that forecast the Lights, but I was not able to see them back then due to cloud cover.”

“That's fantastic! One of these days I will witness them. Did you get any pics?”

“Naw. I've tried before without success. I'm no photographer, mostly point and shoot, but I hear that in order to get good pics you have to use 1000 or 2000 speed film and a tripod. I don't know about the digital cameras...anyone?

RoseyMonster- now would be the time to plan a trip up the Alaska. This is the time of year for it. The farther north the better, I hear.”

“RM-go to www.juneauphotos.com to see some recent pics of the Lights.”

“Northern Lights, White Widow, G-13...It's all good!”

“We had some amazing displays of colour filling the sky during the nights at work last week. Purpley-reds, yellowy-greens and the everpresent luminescent green that kinda reminds you of toxic ooze. They were cool! Does anyone know why they appear brighter and more radiant at certain times than others?”

“I wish I could have seen them...but...It was cloudy here...”

“Some people I know and work with saw them in the Sacramento area this past week. I'm going this weekend where there is no light polution but it's getting to be cloudy. Nothin' like some bad weather backpackin'”

“SpaceWeather.com

Start following the links on this site and you'll more than you ever wanted to in no time, *G*.”

“'know', that is.

You'll know more than you ever wanted to.”

“Cool Link, Tilt!! Thanks, buddy!”

“Dang Internet goes on forever... *G* Especially those Astronomy links.”

“Damn! I missed them. They had Northern Lights in Alberta the day before I got there. I was there for 5 days and didn't see them. Guess that means...another trip to Canada!!

Northern Lights just sound so cool”

“Hey we saw them here in Tennessee.... it was great..we were so glad to see it.
Barbara”

“Yep! They saw 'em in North Georgia, too!

Hey Barb... you know you're the only person here who can verify that I actually exist?

Long time, no seaweed! How's the store coming along?”

“Thanks for the link Tilt! :o)”

“Bizstalker... lemme know next time you come up to the great white north... I live in Alberta & it'd be a nice change to have someone to hike with! :o)”

“SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of the spectacular color displays seen in the northern lights. New data from NASA's Themis mission, a quintet of satellites launched this winter, found the energy comes from a stream of charged particles from the sun flowing like a current through twisted bundles of magnetic fields connecting Earth's upper atmosphere to the sun.

The energy is then abruptly released in the form of a shimmering display of lights visible in the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, said principal investigator Vassilis Angelopoulos of the University of California, Los Angeles.

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In March, the satellites detected a burst of northern lights, or auroras borealis, over Alaska and Canada. During the two-hour light show, the satellites measured particle flow and magnetic fields from space.

To scientists' surprise, the geomagnetic storm powering the auroras raced 400 miles in a minute across the sky. Angelopoulos estimated the storm's power was equal to the energy released by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake.

"Nature was very kind to us," Angelopoulos said.

Although researchers have suspected the existence of wound-up bundles of magnetic fields that provide energy for the auroras, the phenomenon was not confirmed until May, when the satellites became the first to map their structure some 40,000 miles above the Earth's surface.

Scientists hope the satellites will record a geomagnetic storm next year that's now in the making, and end the debate about when the storms are triggered.”

“Cool --- !

(first thing I did was check if this was a Marvin Story,     LOL)”

“daggg..now thats going to take the whole mystery out of it. First Santa now this. :(

:D”

“What about Santa??”

“maybe we should put on our foil hats, just in case.”

“I'm running low on tin ---”

“Rumor has it Sarge bought up all the tin; he seems to be wearing out lots of hats:)”

“If you're running out of tin foil stick you head into the toilet bowl - porcelain is an excellent isolator. Your brain will be safest in the loo in case of intense electromagnatic storms. You should not use your mobil phone though, because the bowl shape will focus harmfull waves in the centre!”

“Aluminum foil just doesn't cut it!”

“What'cha mean?! Aluminium foil doesn't cut it?!?


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“Looks like she has a Hershey's Kiss on her head!”

“What-the?

    (tin is not aluminum, and vice-versa)


            It simply IZN'T, you know.

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“LMAO...thought the exact same thing as Tango”

“Maybe the chocolate helps disrupt the rays?? I bet it would help if I eat some!

OKAY I will sacrifice for everyone here and try it out! Just remember it's all for YOU GUYS!!! LOL!”

“All she needs is a strip on paper sticking out the top ----

Then sell it to ChocolateHead for a nominal fee.”

“Dip the head in chocolate fondue?!?
No, that won't help...”

“With triangular honey from triangular bees -----”

“See what can happen if you don't wear you aluminium foil hat...!

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“That's what you feel like if you don't get all the foil off your chocolate --- and then a tiny piece of foil hits one of the fillings in your teeth!”

“No worries, I have ceramic inlays”