Saw some northern lights above my house last week. To whom do I owe the royalties?

You can own atmospheric phenomena? Excellent! I've got some patents to file.

unyon: I can't believe that they're even fighting over this. Everyone knows that both the northern lights and Santa are Canadian.

Are you sure they aren't Russian too? Santa always comes over and drinks all my vodka. Never even chips in either.

redmid17: unyon: I can't believe that they're even fighting over this. Everyone knows that both the northern lights and Santa are Canadian.

Are you sure they aren't Russian too? Santa always comes over and drinks all my vodka. Never even chips in either.

The Russians like to try to claim Hockey too.

Yo, Norway. I'm really happy for you. I'ma going to let you finish. But Finland got the best damn Northern Lights in the hemisphere.

This land is MY land!

Aurora Australis (Southern Lights)







Aurora Australis from Space!

Being a Finn who married a Nord, this almost broke up the Teasea marriage. Fortunately we both realized we could still make fun of the Swedes.

teasea: Being a Finn who married a Nord, this almost broke up the Teasea marriage. Fortunately we both realized we could still make fun of the Swedes.

Only because they're so damn serious all the time.

This makes as much sense as Alabama and Mississippi arguing over who owns the Gulf of Mexico.

DrWhy: This makes as much sense as Alabama and Mississippi arguing over who owns the Gulf of Mexico.

BP?

DrWhy: This makes as much sense as Alabama and Mississippi arguing over who owns the Gulf of Mexico.

and florida comes along and is just a big dick about it.

They should go to war over it. Then the winner gets to keep the Northern Lights and the loser has to relinquish them forever.

cgraves67: You can own atmospheric phenomena? Excellent! I've got some patents to file.

Please, get in line behind Monsanto there - yes right there. Thank you

gshepnyc: They should go to war over it. Then the winner gets to keep the Northern Lights and the loser has to relinquish them forever.

That would be interesting.

My money's on Finland...



However...



Nah, nevermind.

Well I guess Michigan should lawyer up. I see them down here about twice a decade or so.

When I think Northern Lights I think Canada or Alaska.

/if the Finns were using a picture taken in Norway I could see suing.

illannoyin: My money's on Finland...

Jeebus!!

/blown away by those numbers
//I had no idea!

I saw a really subtle and quick display of the Northern Lights in Iceland this past August. It was awesome, but I'd really love to see them at their peak in the dead of winter.

They're all wrong. Northern Lights was a strain that was first developed in the good old United States of America!!!

(Not kidding: Wikipedia Article on Northern Lights)

USA! USA! USA! USA!

Whatever! Just so long as they don't try to steal our oil from the middle east.

/U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!!

ArkAngel: I only saw them once, but it was pretty cool. And I live on the Wisconsin-Illinois border.

Yeah, I knew they've been seen by people near my house in Illinois.

/Who knew we were so close to Norway. Somebody alert Palin.

markie_farkie:
The photos in the very first entry of this thread were all taken in October.

Huh, I just assumed that the more dark you had, the better they would be. The guides that I was with when I saw them in August told us it was the earliest they had ever seen them so I felt lucky enough. I got some crappy pics, but with only about two minutes of lights and my tripod thousands of miles away at home, I didn't get much.

A quick guide how to tell Scandinavians apart:

- Svedes drink their vodak with water
- Norwegians drink their vodak without water
- Finns drink their vodak like water

/saw the aurora once in Finland
//lives way too far southern
///subby ... green #100, yay!

Saw the aurora once several miles south of Portland, Oregon. Was six or seven years ago. Didn't get the full sheets-blowing-in-the-wind effect, but there was a large arc of green light spanning about thirty degrees of sky, with patches of it fading slowly in and out. Incredible.

And I'm sure the Norwegians would be disappointed to know that I mostly associate the aurora with Canada. 'Cause, y'know, Canada's closer to me. And bigger.

They cannot allow an Auroral gap... or something...

redmid17: unyon: I can't believe that they're even fighting over this. Everyone knows that both the northern lights and Santa are Canadian.

Are you sure they aren't Russian too? Santa always comes over and drinks all my vodka. Never even chips in either.

I always thought the northern lights were localized in the kitchen.

I propose a compromise: In return for the Northern Lights, the Finns can have Lutefisk. That seems fair, doesn't it?

As a Finn I can attest Norwegian Northern Lights suck ass and Finnish Northern Lights are full of win. Fact that I've never seen proper northern lights should not discredit my testimony.

tillerman35: I propose a compromise: In return for the Northern Lights, the Finns can have Lutefisk. That seems fair, doesn't it?

Nobody wants Lutefisk. It's a survival tacitc, like eating bark.

It's a streetlight.

Tomfoolery Rules Over Logical Living: redmid17: unyon: I can't believe that they're even fighting over this. Everyone knows that both the northern lights and Santa are Canadian.

Are you sure they aren't Russian too? Santa always comes over and drinks all my vodka. Never even chips in either.

I always thought the northern lights were localized in the kitchen.

Can I see them?

/no

The Northern Lights are far away, and fill me with emptiness. I rebuke them.

PERKELE!!

/got nufing, just love to say that word :D

FlameDuck: As a Finn I can attest Norwegian Northern Lights suck ass and Finnish Northern Lights are full of win. Fact that I've never seen proper northern lights should not discredit my testimony.


Haista vittu!

This is silly. They belong to Alaska.

WeenerGord: FlameDuck: As a Finn I can attest Norwegian Northern Lights suck ass and Finnish Northern Lights are full of win. Fact that I've never seen proper northern lights should not discredit my testimony.


Haista vittu!

hoo boy...here we go.



:p

A-Rth-Urp-Hil-Ipdenu: WeenerGord: FlameDuck: As a Finn I can attest Norwegian Northern Lights suck ass and Finnish Northern Lights are full of win. Fact that I've never seen proper northern lights should not discredit my testimony.

Haista vittu!

hoo boy...here we go. [www.upl.co image 565x600] :p


Olla naama norsun vitulla!