
Last week I saw a helium balloon cross the road at the lights on a perfectly timed gust of wind. Today I saw four people trying to get into a GWiz electric car. They failed.
What's the best thing you've seen recently?
( , Thu 5 Aug 2010, 21:49)
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I would love to see the Northern Lights.
Bet it was lovely.
( , Tue 10 Aug 2010, 22:33, 1 reply)

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.
( , Tue 10 Aug 2010, 23:13, closed)

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!
( , Wed 11 Aug 2010, 7:51, closed)

nice to be told that it does
( , Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:32, closed)

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
( , Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:07, closed)
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