Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks to me like they started on the north side of Aurora--maybe at Wellington St, but it's been a while since I've been up there so I could be wrong. According to Google, that trip would be around 40.6 km. It's definitely a long walk, but very nice to see where I used to call home again.

I hovering Sun and Aurora Australis got my vote.

A friend told me something a few years back that has always stuck with me; it went something to the effect of "any cool or wild concept that you can think of for an airplane or any device for that matter was probably built and tested by the military 20 years ago."

Always love these kinds of videos! Looks like a variation of aurora

Right at the beginning I thought it was Aurora Snow in the video. Nope, but this girl is more easy on the eyes in the " hasn't been ripped apart by dicks " kind of way.

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There really isn't any educational value in this film, aside from the correct claim that the church instituted holidays around the time of pagan holidays. (Which doesn't at all mean that the holidays remained pagan; they kept the trappings, but changed the substance.)

Easter has nothing to do with Ishtar. The name of the goddess of Easter was Eostre. It's probable that Eostre was the goddess of the sunrise, like the Roman Aurora; her name seems to be cognate with, e.g., the Greek goddess of the dawn Eos.

His explanation of the meaning of Easter is based on the Wiccan celebration of Ostara. (Ostara is a possible Germanization of Eostre, though the name is not to my knowledge found in any extant ancient or medieval texts.) Wiccan practices are not the same as those of ancient paganism. Wiccan rites borrow heavily from Ceremonial Magick (Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, and the like). That said, there are modern pagans who have revived the ancient holiday of Eostre to the best of their ability.

I like the Aurora Borealis - very cool find!

Looks like an optical effect, not an aurora.

The Tunguska incident was a meteor, not Tesla's alleged "death ray". It's scientifically absurd. Whatever pulse supposedly sent by Tesla would have had to travel through thousands of miles of rock, dissipating most of its energy and spreading out, before getting anywhere near Tunguska.

Tesla made some important inventions when he was younger, but spent his later life playing around with variations on Van de Graaf generators and making wildly exaggerated claims about their destructive potential, which were overhyped by the press.

I've lived in Tromsø where he's from, and on dark, crispy nights, looking up at the aurora, it's easy to enter that exact state of mind.

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Holy Crap, is that Bill Nye?!

Almost Live is where his science nerd character debuted.

they're definitely walking around on the ground, looking through infrared goggles, which collect and display ambient light of higher wavelengths than our eyes can collect. Some of the lights do seem to be associate with areas of ground light (city areas).


brainstorming a few ideas
-spotlights and high altitude water vapor/ice? hell of a lot of them; soldiers have never seen them before
-aurora-like sun-related phenomenon? pretty far south
-rockets/contrails? they all appear to be vertical
-lens flair/optical noise? seem to stay vertical while the scope turns; soldiers have never seen them
-mystery military weapon? doesn't seem to be doing anything

I've seen the aurora as well, and as you describe, it's well outside any other experience, defying description. Mesmerizing as you say. It was one of those things I had on my "before I die" list. This is different, though. These are little ice platelets in the sky that reflect lights from the earth or from the sun over the horizon. If you look at the video, you'll see that the biggest one has the lights of a city just below it, which is the light source of the reflection.

Yeah, looks a bit like the aurora borealis, I've seen that many times when I was in the army in northern parts of Norway, its there like every other night, sometimes less sometimes more, but one time, I was up on the mountains sleeping in a tent, I went out to pee, and I looked up, and this stuff covered the ENTIRE sky, I'm not joking, it was insane, like a goddamn disco, the ENTIRE sky was change shapes and colors. Its really worth seeing that stuff in real life, its a fantastic sight, and I dont think I'll ever forget that, I stood there for several minutes, just mesmerized.. Pictures and video will not do it any kind of justice..

The sun gives off high-energy charged particles (also called ions) that travel out into space at speeds of 300 to 1200 kilometres per second. A cloud of such particles is called a plasma. The stream of plasma coming from the sun is known as the solar wind. As the solar wind interacts with the edge of the earth’s magnetic field, some of the particles are trapped by it and they follow the lines of magnetic force down into the ionosphere, the section of the earth’s atmosphere that extends from about 60 to 600 kilometres above the earth’s surface. When the particles collide with the gases in the ionosphere they start to glow, producing the spectacle that we know as the auroras, northern and southern - From virtual finland