Northern Lights

Has anyone seen them? I would like to one day.

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no but i'd also love to see them. i think they'd freak me out a wee though.

 

Vikings used to believe that if they fell on the battle field fighting, "the Valkyries"
(the choosers of the slain, beautiful ass maidens serving Odin) would come down from the sky on flying horses with their bright shiny armors and helmets; ride across the battlefield and choose the bravest fallen soldiers and take them to Valhalla, before the god Odin (the Zeus of the Vikings).

Back then, Vikings living in the North knew that those lights, were the mere interaction between solar winds and earth's magnetic field but they chose to act as if they believed they are the lights reflecting off Valkyries' armors, shields and helmets. They thought having chosen the latter explanation would make their culture and mythology look more interesting in the coming millenia. But ironically those lights are given the name Aurora (the goddess of dawn in Greek mtyhology).

Now, listen to "Ride of the Valkyries".

 

You should visit Finland some day. During wintertime you can see absolutely beautiful northern lights in all kinds of colours almost every night, especially in Lapland. It's lovely.

 

Isaw them once on the upper penninsula of Michigan, they were just white though.

 

No matter how many nights in a row that the lights dance I still find myself in awe. The Aurora Borealis is one of the reasons I first fell in love with the far north.

 

i feel sooooo sorry for you people that have never seen the northern lights!!!! oh my god, they are so beautiful!!! i've seen QUITE the amazing displays before. i can't even begiiiiin to describe it, it was so out of this world.

once, after getting stoned, i walked home from my buddy's place and i started to see them. so i stopped, and just stood there and looked at the sky. i saw the sky as a big giant dome above me, and saw every star in the sky SO clearly, and over top of them, i saw the most amazing lights show ever. a nice green colour, some purple mixed in. and it would keep flashing and dancing and spreading all over the sky. it just kept going and i must've stood there for a good half an hour. i was mesmorized.

 

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Yeah...that's likely. Those Dark Age warriors knew all kinds of science... ::rolls eyes::

Anyways, I've never seen the lights, but it's on my mental list of Things to Do in life.

 

One night last winter, when there were some reports of aurora being seen this far south, there was a faint colorless glow on the horizon that I've not seen since. But I've spent years paying attention to the web sites that give info but still haven't seen a "real" one yet.

If you want to catch one, be sure to check this site at least daily:

http://spaceweather.com/

 

I wanna see it on weed or shrooms or even not on anything would be nice too. Seeing northern lights while smoking northern lights would be the shit. I've never seen or smoked northern lights before.

 

I saw them when I was on shrooms...it was so wierd cause my buddy was like "dude the sky is rippling" and I said "no it's not you're just fucked" and he's like "no, man, I think it really is" and then I saw I too. Too fucking cool. Then his brother came home, and he was sober, and he them too, so we knew they were real. He didn't seem to care at all though....moron.

 

I'd be happy just to SEE it again. We don't get it HERE. (Sucks. Huh?)

 

Keep an ear open for increased solar activity. Extremely large solar flares hitting the earth could possible cause auroras to bee seen extremely far south. I think as south as Texas. Flares that size could also knock out power grids, interfer with communications (the Internet, Airline Jets while in the air, etc.), and god help us - take cable TV offline.

 

A Few years ago during the winter I seen small flashes of red... but that was about it... I want to visit Alaska so bad...

 

The next few days might yield some activity, I see there's a 70% chance of a Class M flare, and a 20% chance of a Class X flare for the next 48 hours or so. I don't know much about that stuff, but I'm below the 40th lattitude so it would probably require a seriously major X flare to be seen this far south.

 

not to mention its so damn cloudy around here the past few days, i wouldnt be able to see anything even if it did happen

 

How far north do you hafta go to see this? Or is it only certain times of the year? I've been as far north as Algonquin park, during the summer and winter, never saw the lights

 

im about 500km north of the US baorder and I get pretty goo displays here. but even just a 3hour drive north they get so much better. to really see them good i would go at least 800km (500miles) north of the 49th paralell barder but the further north you go the better they will get.

thelights are sporatic, its do with solar activity more than anything. it can can go months without them. if you here of a solar flare or sun storm happening . they produce wicked auroroa desplays, and its when you want to be looking

Oh, I read some where that the number of UFO sighings on the USA go up whenever the aurora gets strong enough be seen down thier.

 

http://space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

http://spaceweather.com/

Usually reports like this cause heavy clouds and rain in my area...