Comments on: Is it true that if you watch the Northern Lights, you get exposed to solar radiation? http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/ Guide for Northern Lights Tour - Aurora Borealis Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:10:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: neilsmyhero http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/comment-page-1/#comment-1079 neilsmyhero Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:03:19 +0000 http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/#comment-1079 Absolutely, positively, NOT true. There is nothing even slightly dangerous about watching the Aurora Borealis, and it's well worth watching, one of the most beautiful things in nature. If your husband wants to be a pansy, go out and watch them yourself. Absolutely, positively, NOT true. There is nothing even slightly dangerous about watching the Aurora Borealis, and it’s well worth watching, one of the most beautiful things in nature. If your husband wants to be a pansy, go out and watch them yourself.

]]> By: xyzpdqfoo http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 xyzpdqfoo Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:54 +0000 http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/#comment-1078 Not true. Well, technically, you're exposed to solar radiation every day. That's why sunlight feels so hot :P and that's why people get skin cancer for tanning too much :( And, even more technically, all sunlight is solar radiation, even the visible light that helps you see. What you see as the northern lights though is charged particles spiraling around earths magnetic field lines. It's quite harmless. Not true.
Well, technically, you’re exposed to solar radiation every day. That’s why sunlight feels so hot :P and that’s why people get skin cancer for tanning too much :(
And, even more technically, all sunlight is solar radiation, even the visible light that helps you see.

What you see as the northern lights though is charged particles spiraling around earths magnetic field lines. It’s quite harmless.

]]> By: Al Moskowitz http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/comment-page-1/#comment-1077 Al Moskowitz Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:22:12 +0000 http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/#comment-1077 Not true... The upper atmosphere is excited by the particles from the sun guided in by the earth's magnetic field. The northern lights are a result of a reaction very similar to the mechanism of a neon sign and have the same level of toxicity - NONE. You are just as safe watching them as you are standing under the nightime sky anywhere in the world. Where he might be getting confused is the effect that can happen to you at the South pole. In Antarctica, the Ozone layer is largely missing, the continent is very high, dry and cold. These conditions in addition to the radiation that makes it to the surface because of the "Ozone hole" is very dangerous to an unprotected living organism... Hope that helps... Not true… The upper atmosphere is excited by the particles from the sun guided in by the earth’s magnetic field. The northern lights are a result of a reaction very similar to the mechanism of a neon sign and have the same level of toxicity – NONE. You are just as safe watching them as you are standing under the nightime sky anywhere in the world.

Where he might be getting confused is the effect that can happen to you at the South pole. In Antarctica, the Ozone layer is largely missing, the continent is very high, dry and cold. These conditions in addition to the radiation that makes it to the surface because of the “Ozone hole” is very dangerous to an unprotected living organism…

Hope that helps…

]]> By: Oakine http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/comment-page-1/#comment-1076 Oakine Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:48:25 +0000 http://northernlightstour.com/445/is-it-true-that-if-you-watch-the-northern-lights-you-get-exposed-to-solar-radiation/#comment-1076 How can they put off any level of radiation? I can't for a moment believe that would be true. There are all kinds of tours for the northern lights, so that has to make it a reasonable doubt to them being harmful. How can they put off any level of radiation? I can’t for a moment believe that would be true. There are all kinds of tours for the northern lights, so that has to make it a reasonable doubt to them being harmful.

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