The news on the radio mentioned this week's solar storm, and that got our guy's attention. "What are they talking about?" he demanded, and I explained. Energetic "electromagnetic" particles from the sun attacking the Earth, earth's atmosphere forming a protective shield" and so forth were pretty dramatic and exciting for him to hear.
Then I added, "you know what, when the solar wind hits Earth's atmosphere, the sky glows with amazing colors - it looks so beautiful. It's called an aurora. But only people up north, close to the arctic will see that".
"But that's not fair", he went. "Why can't we see that?"
"Well, they are suffering freezing weather most of the year, while we are enjoying beautiful sunny weather. Is that fair to them?", I countered.
"Yeah..." he said and went silent.
After about a minute, he goes: "You know what, I think we are more lucky. Their aurora weather will be for only one day. Our sunny weather is for many many days!"
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Hi, small conversations are written down in an interesting way and it reflects the innocence of a 5 year old
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