Keep an eye to the north over the next couple of nights. I can see the northern lights right now with the naked eye, albeit not as good as with my camera.
It was picking up in intensity about 30 minutes ago. We could see greens and reds with the naked eye.
The greens then got less, and now it’s mostly reds.
Perfect temps for a bowl and a show!
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Nice…I think red is higher up in atmosphere. Sadly as you can see clouds have moved in here. Tried to sneak few off before then earlier.
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Don’t look up
Hopefully the clouds go away up there tonight, because an even stronger wave is on its way.
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Ya know I wonder what our ancient ancestors thought about events like this. We have the scientific knowledge to know exactly what it is and why it’s being caused. But ancient folks hadn’t developed that sort of scientific thought yet. I wonder what they thought it was. I would imagine some sort of religious imagery.
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Somehow you just know the Dimbulbcrats will be blaming Trump and the Republicans 
The Greek astronomer and mathematician Eratosthenes estimated that the Earth’s circumference was approximately 25,000 miles in circumference, basically using nothing more than sticks, rope, and triangles.
He was off by less than 100 miles, and this was centuries before Christ.
Ancient Greek philosophers like Anaximander, Democritus, and Epicurus, all hypothesized that there were other worlds with living beings like us, believing in intuitive ideas like an infinite universe and the possibility of “seed” life spreading through space.
These people lived centuries before Eratosthenes proved beyond a mathematical doubt that the Earth is round.
There’s a lot less religion and a lot more science involved with the ancients than they’re given credit for.
You’re right about that. They were more advanced that we often give them credit for.
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It’s what keeps me fascinated with remote history. A lot of things absolutely existed that challenge our ideas of “advanced” or “primitive”.
Hell, people were literally using analog computers before Christ was born (Antikythera Mechanism), and that’s just on the recorded end of history. We’ve been here for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Makes you wonder what we will look like 100,000 years from now if we don’t kill ourselves off before then.
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10,000-20,000 years from now, a century or two after the steam engine is invented (again, for the umpteenth time), people will start to debate on how in the hell primitive cavemen from 10,000 years ago could possibly have carved Mt Rushmore, a solid granite mountain, without any advanced tools.
There’s tens/hundreds of thousands of people all over the north american continent still flaking stones into arrowheads and spears. Those will be here 10,000-20,000 years from now. Not a shred of plastic, not a single engine block, not one foundational I-beam from a single sky scraper, will be there.
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