Who Turned Off The Stars? by Niki2

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Who Turned Off The Stars?

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Monday, April 9, 2012 12:55
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Saturday, April 7, 2012 4:24 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Who turned off the stars? Light pollution

When you look up at the night sky on a clear night, you probably mutter "wow, look at all those stars." Well, if you live anywhere near a big city, you don't know the half of it.

What you may not realize is that you're suffering from light pollution. The sky is so washed out by excess urban lighting that instead of seeing thousands and thousands of stars, you may be seeing only hundreds - or sadly, maybe only dozens.

And, as we lose sight of more and more stars to light pollution, we lose a connection to the universe. We may even lose a little bit of our souls. http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/05/who-turned-off-the-stars-li
ght-pollution/?hpt=hp_bn13 live near SF, so I never see even a tenth of this. No, a thousandth!

How about the rest of you?

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Saturday, April 7, 2012 5:40 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

1st time I truly saw the Milky Way, I was in the USVI.

Spectacular.

* Note to everyone* - Do not believe Anthony. He does not know what he thinks he knows on matters concerning of what I think or believe.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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Sunday, April 8, 2012 5:31 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I looked up last night...which I don't often do, there's so little to see...I enjoy the moon a lot when it's out, but I have to correct what I said. I don't see one MILLIONTH of what's up there, only a very tiny fraction. That saddens me; seeing all of what I'm missing via that photo saddens me. And yes, I know the photo is probably not what anyone anywhere on Earth sees with the unaided eye, but it's still a bummer.

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Sunday, April 8, 2012 8:16 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

The night sky is pretty spectacular up in the mountains here, but it doesn't quite look like that. (unless that section of the photo is the outer band of the milky way, which does look like that.)

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 2:00 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

I remember when I was a child sleeping out by the beach and the sky seemed brimming with stars. Same location, only the stars are not as visible due to the urbanisation of the environment.

You have to get beyond city lights, way way beyond to get a good look. It is still possible in Australia because we have such sparsely populated areas.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 2:34 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by Niki2:
I looked up last night...which I don't often do, there's so little to see...I enjoy the moon a lot when it's out, but I have to correct what I said. I don't see one MILLIONTH of what's up there, only a very tiny fraction. That saddens me; seeing all of what I'm missing via that photo saddens me. And yes, I know the photo is probably not what anyone anywhere on Earth sees with the unaided eye, but it's still a bummer.

Just one of the myriad tradeoffs we have to deal with.

You can't see the stars from your yard, but you can read a book after the sun goes down. Cars create greenhouse gasses, but the streets aren't ankle-deep in horse poop.

Then again, that car can take you up to Toulomne Meadows in a day, and you can see the stars from there.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 12:55 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

It's possible to lament for that which is lost without wanting to return to the past. And sometimes the tradeoffs are really not worth it. I wonder what society would have been like without such affordable cars but more public transport. Nevertheless we have what we have and we have lost what we have.

In order to get a good look at the stars, you need to get well beyond areas of light pollution, virtually impossible to find in either north america (especially the east) or europe. Have a look at these photos to see how illuminated these areas actually are.

http://geology.com/articles/satellite-photo-earth-at-night.shtml

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