Oh anyway. Hahaha.
I really can't think of any to post that really makes sense. Maybe I will post about Obama and McCain, but I am just too lazy jotting down political stuffs, or maybe I will post the latest economical issue, blah! that's too uninteresting, anyway we all know that the economical state of our country is still "under-developed" as always, so there is not much news about it. Um, how 'bout religion? That sounds interesting but really, when it comes to this topic, we can't avoid being biased, so let's just pass it out.
Ok, I found a target, how 'bout writing about "Aurora Borealis". I am dying to see this spellbinding celestial lights. I should have post it to my top most places to see. Can you imagine someone proposing to you with the Aurora Borealis right behind you? Ok, ok. I know you think that's odd but just imagine it. My! I am thinking mushy stuffs again.
Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights are curtains of streamers that appear in the Arctic and Antarctic parts of the earth. Scientifically speaking, 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. The array of colours consists of red, green, blue and violet.
In Finnish Folklore tales they are called "revontulet", which means "fox fires" a name derived from an ancient fable of the arctic fox starting fires fire or spraying up snow with its brush-like tail. No matter that in English "foxfire" is a luminescent glow emitted by certain types of fungi growing on rotten wood. The true story is that the sun is the father of the auroras.
Whew! That's a piece of information. But really, whenever I got to see a picture of an Aurora, I got butterflies in my stomach. Unexplained happiness and longing, I think. The light exudes peace and serenity that whenever I looked at them, it's as if I have been there. It's like a dream- a beautiful dream. Very hypnotizing.
au revoir!
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