Reply #3: haha!

[symbolman]

I lived in Fairbanks for 10 years, and in case you don't know Siberia is on the same lattitude as Alaska, and Fairbanks is in the middle of the state, a BIG ass state, which loses more coastline at low tide than all of the land of Texas (we like to stick that up Texans butts when they come up there bragging)..

And the Northern Lights aren't over just one place, if you have a look at the photos NASA takes the Borealis is a RING around the TOP of the planet, what you are seeing in Alaska is just a little portion of the same Ring being seen by people in Siberia, Finland, and other northern lattitudes..

I'd be more worried about the permafrost melting, and the oil companies should be too.. if that melts they won't be able to create ANY Roads between their rigs, and the rigs themselves could topple over..

I did core samples for Oil Companies up there, went gold mining for two summers, and spent two summers looking for Uranium for the Dept of Energy by Helicopter, saw every square mile of Alaska east and west and north of Fairbanks, even crashed in the Tundra and was lost for three days, when they KNEW where we were!

Gonna write a book about the Helicopter job, got some stories to tell :)