Tag Archives: Aurora Borealis

Solar Flare May 2024

May 16, 2024 – 4:06 pm

Last week the extreme electromagnetic radiation flares burst the 93,000,000 from the Sun to Earth in less than nine minutes creating intense Aurora Borealis over a swarth of North America. Friends driving to the Canadian border were reward with the most dynamic cosmic display in a decade. I saw nothing from the roof of this […]

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Aurora Borealis Maine July 4, 1971

July 4, 2022 – 6:26 am

On the 4th of July in 1971 John Gilmore, Mark McLaughlin, and Tommie Jordan and I left the South Shore of Boston to holiday in Maine. A large store at the New Hampshire border sold fireworks. John purchased $20 worth of M-80s and various rockets. The four of us stopped at my grandmother’s cabin on […]

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Polar Flight Seat #60A

June 13, 2016 – 1:02 am

Seat 60A in a window. I slept most of the journey over the pole, waking occasionally to peer out the 777’s porthole. Below was the long Arctic night and overhead five stars were visible through the pitted flexi-glass. Virgin was offering a real Space voyage to intrepid ‘astronauts’. $200,000 to ride Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin […]

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Aurora Borealis / Jack London

June 13, 2016 – 12:57 am

“With the Aurora Borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading […]

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A Night Without Northen Lights

June 13, 2016 – 12:32 am

From my roof I sought the northern lights The moon shone silver in the clear night keeping the aurora borealis out of sight banning the promised show from a city too bright. clouds soon blanketed the heavens with a soft white disappointed I descended from the the roof’s heights to my room and drink beer […]

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