Squeak 17 #1 September 27, 2008 Can i get to see the Northern light from either near Vancouver or Toronto? If not where would be a good place to see them (excluding Alaska and the Arctic Circle)You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #2 September 27, 2008 You have to have fairly energetic solar activity to see them this far south. We saw them a t LP a few years ago...awsum.. PLUS it has to be clear.... and in winter when the nights are long in Vancouver or Seattle.. your chances of getting clear skies..... slim to none. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shell666 0 #3 September 27, 2008 Quote You have to have fairly energetic solar activity to see them this far south. We saw them a t LP a few years ago...awsum.. PLUS it has to be clear.... and in winter when the nights are long in Vancouver or Seattle.. your chances of getting clear skies..... slim to none. Jeanne's right. Even here in Edmonton, which is a fair bit farther north than Vancouver, hasn't seen much of them in the last several years. Fort McMurray, Alberta, which is a 5 hour drive north of here still gets a glimpse of them. But that's probably too far off your travel plans. Plus the cold there would bite. 'Shell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #4 September 27, 2008 I think the best time to see the Aurora.. is during sunspot maximum events.. and that is going to be a few years off. We are at a solar minimum.. so I dont think they are going to be seen for a while on the 11 year cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot A minimum in the eleven-year sunspot cycle may happen during 2008.[1] While the reverse polarity sunspot[2] observed on 4 January 2008 may represent the start of Cycle 24, no additional sunspots have yet been seen in this cycle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,070 #5 September 27, 2008 >We are at a solar minimum.. so I dont think they are going to be seen >for a while on the 11 year cycle On the plus side, this has been an unusually long minimum, and typically when the cycle does fire up after a long minimum it's stronger than average. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shell666 0 #6 September 27, 2008 Quote I think the best time to see the Aurora.. is during sunspot maximum events.. and that is going to be a few years off. We are at a solar minimum.. so I dont think they are going to be seen for a while on the 11 year cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot A minimum in the eleven-year sunspot cycle may happen during 2008.[1] While the reverse polarity sunspot[2] observed on 4 January 2008 may represent the start of Cycle 24, no additional sunspots have yet been seen in this cycle. There you both go getting all "scientific" on us. I'm just going off of my own personal view of it, outside the city lights. They were much brighter when I was a kid. Now, not so much. 'Shell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #7 September 27, 2008 I got to see them lots the winter I spent in Fairbanks.... Hey you might like this website....Forecast Then again... Squeak might like this one better. predictable . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #8 September 27, 2008 Quote I got to see them lots the winter I spent in Fairbanks.... Hey you might like this website....Forecast Then again... Squeak might like this one better. predictable . I'm not one of those who constantly request them Try keeping it on topic please JeanneYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #9 September 27, 2008 I'm thinking i might have better luck in Norway, any Norwegians here?You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #10 September 27, 2008 I've seen them from about 40 miles East of Portland, OR, but it's not common that far South. "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #11 September 27, 2008 DUDE.. its BONFIRE....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #12 September 27, 2008 Actually they have been out 3 or 4 times in the last month just north of Edmonton. They were out last Sunday but only in green. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcd11235 0 #13 September 29, 2008 I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #14 September 29, 2008 Quote I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja. thanks for the IQ indicator You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcd11235 0 #15 September 29, 2008 Quote Quote I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja. thanks for the IQ indicator You'd be hard pressed to find a correlation between IQ and cannabis knowledge and/or use.Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #16 September 29, 2008 Quote Quote Quote I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja. thanks for the IQ indicator You'd be hard pressed to find a correlation between IQ and cannabis knowledge and/or use. I wasn't reefer-ing to use, but to your assumptionYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lilDevil 2 #17 September 29, 2008 Norway :-)``````````````````````````````````` " Cant keep a good woman down " Angels have wings, but devils can fly ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #18 September 29, 2008 Quote I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja. here you goscissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jclalor 12 #19 September 29, 2008 Believe it or not I saw them in Memphis in 1982 while in the navy. It was very strange to see a large red pulsating mass in space, many thought it was perhaps the end of the world. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
porpoishead 8 #20 September 29, 2008 I remeber that stuff.. my girl made me smoke some of that shit with her...doood i was fucking stupefied for a little while that shit is insane i'm not above burning a tree or two whenever the fuck but that stuff is overkill no??? i was fucking ripped with just a few pulls LMAO!!! now she has some stuff that taste like those grape candies violets..grape soda tasting shit knocks me on my ass too them plants are violent these days if you want a friend feed any animal Perry Farrell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #21 September 29, 2008 You want light? Flip the freakin' switch, dude. You want colored lights? Orange Sunshine works. Any Owsley product works very well.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lilDevil 2 #22 September 30, 2008 Quote I'm thinking i might have better luck in Norway, any Norwegians here? Take a cruise up through the ( i know im gonna spell thios wrong ) Fiords thats were i saw them :-)``````````````````````````````````` " Cant keep a good woman down " Angels have wings, but devils can fly ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #23 September 30, 2008 Quote Quote I'm thinking i might have better luck in Norway, any Norwegians here? Take a cruise up through the ( i know im gonna spell thios wrong ) Fiords thats were i saw them :-) Fjords. Courtesy of Sladi Bladvast. Now someone can correct my spelling." . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSBIRD 1 #24 September 30, 2008 I prefer Northern Lights #5 BASE359 "Now I've settled down, in a quiet little town, and forgot about everything" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #25 September 30, 2008 Quote I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about ganja. thats good shit right thereI'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites