I saw the aurora many years ago in Wisconsin. Before that my only encounter was in the planetarium in Chicago, where I dismissed the simulation as cheap special effects. Being out under the night sky, watching the light show overhead, it STILL felt unreal — nothing that big, that colorful, that dynamic, could be an actual phenomenon.
It's an amazing experience. I think about how primitive people must have reacted to it and I understand how stories of all-powerful deities became the rage. There had to be a reason for something so spectacular and they couldn't have known about solar flares. I wonder what they thought?
I saw the aurora many years ago in Wisconsin. Before that my only encounter was in the planetarium in Chicago, where I dismissed the simulation as cheap special effects. Being out under the night sky, watching the light show overhead, it STILL felt unreal — nothing that big, that colorful, that dynamic, could be an actual phenomenon.
It's an amazing experience. I think about how primitive people must have reacted to it and I understand how stories of all-powerful deities became the rage. There had to be a reason for something so spectacular and they couldn't have known about solar flares. I wonder what they thought?