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PS WONDERFUL shots Ian and Paul, thanks for staying up all night so the rest of us could enjoy. :-)
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Capture: Aurora Australis, in reply to JacksonP,
Would certainly hop on a plane to see this first hand, if I had some advanced warning.
It gets cold down here, you know. ;-)
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This photo, taken on a good night last year, was my first aurora! This is a 15sec exposure. My naked eyes could only see a faint and rather magical dancing field of lightness. If I hadn't specifically been looking for it I wouldn't have noticed it. But I pointed the camera in vaguely the right direction, and the bright green appeared in the photo.
Seeing an aurora is an amazing experience, but it's amazing in a different way from looking at photographs.
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Capture: Aurora Australis, in reply to Nora Leggs,
How does it feel to be under a sky like that?
It's pretty amazing, but our eyes don't see colour very well in low light. With a bright aurora we can see a flickering lightness in part of the sky. Tip: look slightly away from where you expect the aurora to be, as peripheral vision is better than central vision at seeing in the dark.
I made my family go outside the other night and had to persuade them it was actually an aurora because they thought it would be brighter! <facepalm>
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Russell Brown,
There’s a sense that something’s been settled
Or, unsettled! Disinhabited.
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Thanks for the photos, Russell. Once again you’ve gone where I wasn’t brave enough to go.
That picture with the Port Hills in the background is particularly striking. I know that area well, and seeing only the ghosts of human habitation is nightmarish. Pre-quake Chch was such an orderly place. Even small changes to the city would be debated passionately, sometimes for years.
I’ve just been reading Keith Ng’s piece in Tell You What: 2015 .
I don’t understand how people can look at the world which the IPCC describes, mouth the words that “climate change is a very serious issue” and simply assume that it would be the same world of flat whites and iPhones that their children inherits. I don’t understand how people can accept science describing a world with food and water insecurity, with freak heat waves and droughts and hurricanes, and just believe that their world will continue as is.
Your children may not enjoy a world of growth and prosperity. Your grandchildren may not live in a world of safety and security. Your great-grandchildren may not have three meals a day.
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
(like fracking-induced earthquakes) likely to be imaginary.
Humans cause (mostly very small) earthquakes all the time . I don’t think this is controversial. The linking of x quake with human activity is obviously subject to debate, but not the principle.
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Great story, thanks.
Just one thing, what did you mean here?
We all understand that toxins – like fracking, like alien activity, like contrails, like bar codes – can and do attract a certain type of personality –
Don't we all agree that fracking causes horrible pollution?
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Speaker: Why all the fuss over six trees?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
“This is not a hollow engagement. We think taking a little bit of extra time will not do us any harm. It’s a good thing to listen to what the public has to say and to take them into account.”
Jesus fucking Christ. We pay these people’s salaries. These are our spaces, our amenities.
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Speaker: Sex with the office lights on:…, in reply to mark taslov,
Imagine if no one had got their phone out. Imagine if the pub-crowd had merely had a giggle and a good story to tell their families when they got home.
…has the makings of a winning tourism advertisement targeting those planning a trip to the 1970s
We still have a choice whether or not to use the technology. Peeps can choose to be kind.
