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[charcoalfeather]

[It's late, very late in fact, on this friday night. But it's not late enough that someone won't be posting on their pokegear.

In this instance, Rakka has decided to be that person by making a text; short and sweet, though it has the inclusion of a small video clip.

The clip is of the night sky, snow falling lightly through the air, not as much as it had the past few days. The stars are shining brightly tonight, but they are simply outmatched by the aurora borealis stretching across the sky as far as the screen, and Rakka, can see.]

This is so much better then the cats and snow monsters.

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[charcoalfeather]

Neither have I but I know it's called an "aurora"
or something like that.

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[schachmeister]

That's right, an aurora. I asked Mr Pines and he explained it to me.
He said that they are also sometimes referred to as the Polar Lights or Northern Lights and that they usually seen in high latitudes. They occur when the magnetosphere is disturbed by solar winds. When this happens, the charged particles -- which is to say, the electrons and protons -- in the magnetospheric plasma and in the solar wind are pushed upwards into upper levels of the atmosphere, namely the exosphere and thermosphere. Here the energy in those particles breaks down and leads to the emission of light which is what we see.

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[charcoalfeather]

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Wow, neat.

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[schachmeister]

[It is hard for Armin to sometimes read tone while talking, let alone in text.]

Isn't it? Electrons, protons, I never knew any of those things existed until Mr Pines told me about them here.

[His knowledge on them is still pretty basic, mostly owing to the fact that he is trying to catch up on about a century worth of interesting research developments, but he knows more than he used to know.]

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[charcoalfeather]

[It's hard sometimes for Rakka to manage.]

Uh yeah, that sounds really


I never knew those things existed either!

[Unless she read about them in a book at one time. There were many things she picked up on from books, but her research in particular topics was... lacking right now.]