@Espiritus_Corvus Talk about getting sucked into space, I was helping my older son and some of his buddies move to Mendota Heaights one evening in Minnesota and as it got late, the sky started to look funny when we got away from Saint Paul’s city light pollution. By the time we made the last trip to his new place. it was clear the we were going to be treated to a display of the Aurora Borealis. I can’t find a video that shows the effect, but asside from all the linked video shows, there were what looked like massive rid lightning bolts flashing across the sky, connecting and weaving. We laid on our backs in the cold Minnesota night till 4AM watching the glory of it all.
Oh, and Border Collies are definitely awesome animals.
@laineybug There would be no carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, sulfur, iron or any other of the heavier elements we humans are made of, and that our world is made of if it were not for the nuclear forges of massive primordial stars that exploded as supernovae. We literally are star dust. That is incredibly awe inspiring, isn’t it.
@SwanSwanHummingbird I am so glad you brought that point in. I totally agree. We have so much in common with the features that the vainglorious among us dismiss as inferiors.
@anniereborn It’s a good thing to think about from time to time.
@Seek_Kolinahr How’s :this”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrCWd8yT2OA?
@Rarebear I can understand the ease of photographing it. With the right equipment, photos of Andromeda are truly spectacular, but those can be captured without considerable expense in equipment. The time is coming, as we close in on colliding with Andromeda, that it will be visible in the daytime sky.
@talljasperman Googling that produces nothing but junk science and wild speculation. It I missed authoritative sires, enlighten me. Failing that, I don’t need to look for woo-woo to be staggered by reality. As J. B. S. Haldane said, “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.”