Northern Lights
I was living in Labrador City, Labrador a few years back. It is a fairly land-locked city above Quebec where they mine hematite. It had been a cold winter and the sun went to bed far too early for my tastes so I decided to try and make friends with the cold.

A buddy and I decided to go cross country skiing and ended up on some groomed trails, part of which went across a lake. The snow on the side of the trails was about four feet high and offered some shelter from the wind.

About half-way across the lake the northern lights appeared, like a gossamer dancing green phantom. It was absolutely amazing and stopped us up mid trek.

We both fell backwards into the snow bank and spent the better part of two hours in -40 degree weather watching the heavenly lights, warmed by the snow and the majesty of nature.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 22:22, 12 replies)

AWWWWWWWW
I would love to see the Northern Lights.
Bet it was lovely.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 22:33, closed)

It was surreal.
They, of course, make no noise, but you initially expect some type of laser noise, or film projector noise, I don't know.

Instead, it was a serene silence, with just the occasional breath of wind and the knowledge that you were witnessing something eternal.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 23:13, closed)

Actually they do...
It's called the "auroral whisper", and it is a kind of hissing crackle. Rather like you'd expect a large electrical discharge to sound. It needs to be perfectly flat calm and silent to hear it, and I don't think you'd get it as far south as you are.

I've never heard it, although I've seen the aurora quite often. Not for a while though - come back sunspots, please!
(gordonjcp, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 7:51, closed)

Spooky
www.la8aja.com/vhf/soundclips2m/dg0rg_2m.mp3
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 10:25, closed)

that's how I always imagined it might sound
nice to be told that it does
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:32, closed)

I know people who claim they've heard it, but I've read that it's scientifically unexplainable.
On the other hand, the clip attached of someone breathing into a toilet reservoir isn't even close.

I think it sounds like this: new.wavlist.com/movies/172/mat-yak2.wav
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:07, closed)

Groomed trails?
Are those the trails that Gary Glitter has already been on?
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 23:00, closed)

Shame after that CME the other day
We had so much cloud here in blighty.
( Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 0:20, closed)

Indeed.
Though I forgot to stay awake anyhow.
Maybe next time...
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 17:47, closed)

Isn't Mars supposed to be abnormally large this month?

( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 18:43, closed)

Not sure,
but uranus is looking pretty red!
(robbersdog, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 20:11, closed)

Will you stay out of my toilet? I don't know how many times I have to repeat it.

( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 21:02, closed)