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I remember staring at it for hours till I damned near froze to deathToday's picture at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod is a spectacular aurora over Antactica. You'd have certain frozen here, FF: the outside temperature at the time this photograph was taken was about -73ºC (-100ºF).
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As a postscript to Keiva, this is the actual pic. I went to look and saw a green sun, and thought I was seeing strange things, but that's because I got the *new "Pic of the Day". This is the url for the pic Keiva was referring to yesterday: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020320.htmlOh, and it's Anta rctica. Can't let things from the "top of the world" be spelt wrong.  Hev
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Thanks to you and kei. Similar to what I remember.
But my recollection was it was many different colors at once - green, blue, red - and that it was moving continuously and quickly - like one of those psychedelic lights. I don't know. Maybe my memory is making it out to be more than it was.
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Thanks, Hev! Came in this morning (when "today" had become "yesterday") to update the url, and found that a fast-fingered sheila had beaten me to it!
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> Augh! The one thing I would regret dying without experiencing is this phenomenon. I wanna move North! (Or maybe, WAY-AY south...Hi Max and CK!
What she said.
Oh - and not having sung "You'll never walk alone" on the kop!! Hi Dunc
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What's a kop, please? Send private if it's embarrassing.
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I have seen magazine articles about sounds associated with aurora, and also with meteorites. Big problem is that sound travels so slow compared to light, there would be a very large time difference. There are theories that there is energy enough in non-visible spectrum to be converted to sound by something close to the observer - aluminum foil, etc. etc. Here's a URL with discussion by a physicist. http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF10/1096.html
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There is a steep street in Shrewsbury in Shropshire called Wyle Cop. I suppose the buildings and the street itself go back to at least the 16th century - there is by the way a splendidly idiosyncratic coaching inn, now a hotel, called The Lion - indicating that the word Kopje was adopted and distorted in this country in the dim and distant past - possibly Viking influence?
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Oh, thanks, stales--I knew I'd seen it recently. Afrikaans--sigh--I still miss David108.
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