Posted On: Saturday - June 1st 2024 9:26PM MST
In Topics: Music Science
I've seen the "Northern Lights" from the Pacific Northwest from high places on cold winter nights. They never looked like more than a vague fairly dim bluish-white curtain. The solar storm 3 weeks back generated a much brighter and more colorful northern lights that could be seen from much farther south. This was said to be the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years.
(Solar) coronal mass ejections have magnetic fields that interact with the Earth's own magnetic field. Lots of energy is transferred to the Earth's magnetosphere, 10's of thousands of miles up. That's all I know. besides "Where was this EMP of which you spoke?" I was A-OK One Second After, but we've got other things to prep for now. Anyway, I snapped this picture that night:
For this kind of thing, especially when one uses the Latin scientific term, Aurora Borealis, New Age music is a must. There'll be another time and place for Yacht Rock. Who else, then, but Enya fits the bill tonight?
Enya, aka Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin - come on!! - recorded the wonderful Shepherd Moons album in 1991. Book of Days is one of my favorites from it. Enya often sings in some other-worldly language, perhaps Klingon, perhaps this one. It's hard for me not to try to make English words in my head out of the lyrics. This one is in English, though, but lyrics don't matter so much when you have good melodies and a sound like this.
Good night, Peakers. Thanks for reading ... and hopefully listening!
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Moderator
Monday - June 3rd 2024 5:25PM MST
PS: Thanks, J12324. We were up pretty high, which helped...
Moderator
Monday - June 3rd 2024 5:24PM MST
PS: Tarheel, I do know that one by Flock of Seagulls.
There's also the very beginning line in a Neil Young song called "Pocahontas". "Aurora Borealis, icy skies at night ... " I really like the tune of that one too. The lyrics are the usual complaint about the Whie Man having taken the Indian's land.
Sure, in a way, some of it, but then what are you going to do, Neil? Did you donate your property to the 1st Nations yet? Or maybe the First Nations bank will repossess it if you don't get back with Spotify for those royalties ..
"Haha," the Canadians in the group made fun of me one time. "You thought the 1st Nations were bankers?!" "Well, yeah, I mean ..."
There's also the very beginning line in a Neil Young song called "Pocahontas". "Aurora Borealis, icy skies at night ... " I really like the tune of that one too. The lyrics are the usual complaint about the Whie Man having taken the Indian's land.
Sure, in a way, some of it, but then what are you going to do, Neil? Did you donate your property to the 1st Nations yet? Or maybe the First Nations bank will repossess it if you don't get back with Spotify for those royalties ..
"Haha," the Canadians in the group made fun of me one time. "You thought the 1st Nations were bankers?!" "Well, yeah, I mean ..."
J1234
Monday - June 3rd 2024 2:55PM MST
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I agree, the picture is very nice. Good composition, too, it seems to me. My wife and I were standing outside a hotel in Cedar Rapids, IA that chilly evening to try to get glimpse, but it got to be 1 am or so, so we went inside. I saw a slowly moving white-ish cloud looking thing that might've been aurora, but not sure.
I saw it legit back in the '80's in northern Minnesota, but there was no color to it to any great degree- just a white moving haze. Maybe my eyes couldn't pick up the color, but we were in the middle of nowhere so it wasn't anything else. It went on and on forever, it seemed. A very active aurora. I saw it again on the shore of Lake Superior a couple of years later, again only white and gray, much less active and less defined.
I agree, the picture is very nice. Good composition, too, it seems to me. My wife and I were standing outside a hotel in Cedar Rapids, IA that chilly evening to try to get glimpse, but it got to be 1 am or so, so we went inside. I saw a slowly moving white-ish cloud looking thing that might've been aurora, but not sure.
I saw it legit back in the '80's in northern Minnesota, but there was no color to it to any great degree- just a white moving haze. Maybe my eyes couldn't pick up the color, but we were in the middle of nowhere so it wasn't anything else. It went on and on forever, it seemed. A very active aurora. I saw it again on the shore of Lake Superior a couple of years later, again only white and gray, much less active and less defined.
The Alarmist
Monday - June 3rd 2024 10:58AM MST
PS
What happened? I lost interest for a while, but now I cannot get Substack’s interface to work with my outdated browsers. I’ll have to tinker with it, I guess.
I was going to post a pic of my new heart-throb weather babe, but it will have to wait.
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What happened? I lost interest for a while, but now I cannot get Substack’s interface to work with my outdated browsers. I’ll have to tinker with it, I guess.
I was going to post a pic of my new heart-throb weather babe, but it will have to wait.
🕉
70sTarheel
Sunday - June 2nd 2024 3:25PM MST
PS Certainly less ethereal, but catchier is the song by A Flock of Seagulls, "I Ran." "Aurora borealis comes in view Aurora comes in view And I ran ..."
BTW and off topic, I finally got around to reading "Mania." I share most of your criticisms. Lionel is just getting a little too cute.
BTW and off topic, I finally got around to reading "Mania." I share most of your criticisms. Lionel is just getting a little too cute.
Moderator
Sunday - June 2nd 2024 12:08PM MST
PS: The sun is FINE! It's the Earth that has a fever, Alarmist. The Earth is sick, and the IPCC has been measuring its temperature with a rectal thermometer, the most accurate way. The thermometer has been placed in a hole in the ground in the jungles of Haiti, the asshole of the World.*
I checked out your substack site and tried to leave a comment under the "Home on the Range" post, twice. You were most prolific in the Winter of '21-'22. What happened?
I will read your post about your nephew later on. Good reading, so far.
* It's no longer that place in Cambodia(?) where Martin Sheen took care of the wayward Colonel Kurtz.
I checked out your substack site and tried to leave a comment under the "Home on the Range" post, twice. You were most prolific in the Winter of '21-'22. What happened?
I will read your post about your nephew later on. Good reading, so far.
* It's no longer that place in Cambodia(?) where Martin Sheen took care of the wayward Colonel Kurtz.
The Alarmist
Sunday - June 2nd 2024 8:22AM MST
PS
My 1 watt 20m WSPR beacon has been going gangbusters on some days, then pretty much nowhere on others. Must be climate change.
Maybe it is HAARP causing all this aurora. Can’t possibly by the Sun, since “climate scientists” seem to believe there is no connection between weather and variations in the Sun, and a solar-generated aurora would be a visible indicator that plenty of energy is being pumped into our planet, as it is unlikely all of it is being dissipated in the Aurora Borealis or Aurora Australis.
For those who asked, it is alarmist.substack.com , but I haven’t felt the urge two post for a couple years. Don’t make me start writing again, dammit !
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My 1 watt 20m WSPR beacon has been going gangbusters on some days, then pretty much nowhere on others. Must be climate change.
Maybe it is HAARP causing all this aurora. Can’t possibly by the Sun, since “climate scientists” seem to believe there is no connection between weather and variations in the Sun, and a solar-generated aurora would be a visible indicator that plenty of energy is being pumped into our planet, as it is unlikely all of it is being dissipated in the Aurora Borealis or Aurora Australis.
For those who asked, it is alarmist.substack.com , but I haven’t felt the urge two post for a couple years. Don’t make me start writing again, dammit !
🕉
Moderator
Sunday - June 2nd 2024 7:18AM MST
PS: Yeah, and the picture didn't do justice to the view.
Dieter Kief
Saturday - June 1st 2024 11:00PM MST
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Nice pic mod. - - and - what: the strongest solar storm in 20 years, and we can see traces of it on earth? - Magnificent!
'appy sunday peakers
Nice pic mod. - - and - what: the strongest solar storm in 20 years, and we can see traces of it on earth? - Magnificent!
'appy sunday peakers