[C19fan]

I have only seen glimpses of the Milky Way twice in my life. Once out in the Salinas Valley in CA and in the Smoky Mountains.

[BenLurkin]

“Light pollution”

What ordinary people think of as safety and convenience.

[JenB]

I had only seen it twice until I moved to Nevada, now I can see it in my backyard.

[major_gaff]

I enjoy going up to our cabin in upstate PA and seeing the Milky Way...very little light interference out in the middle of no where.

[hanamizu]

I can see the Milky Way just fine in Southeast Missouri. Growing up in Long Beach, Calif in the 50s, I never saw it.

[Gamecock]

The good news is if you want to love in a place where you see the stars at night, there are plenty of places in the world where you can move. North Korea comes to mind.

Seriously, I spent a few months in the middle of nowhere, Saudi Arabia, and one of the best memories I have is going outside and just looking up at night.

[rockinqsranch]

“Light Pollution Hides Milky Way” eh!? Hmmmm..... wondering how sweet pollution hides the flavor of the cake, or how green pollution of the forest hides the sky, or leftist BS pollution hides the truth.

[Snickering Hound]

Astronomy buffs often arrange trips to West Texas hauling some huge telescopes with them.

[Yo-Yo]

Uh, according to the Census, 80% of Americans live in an urban area, so “light pollution” is called street lighting.

[al_c]

File that under the “Duh” category. 80% of Americans live in urban areas, right?

[pepsi_junkie]

Living outside of Philly, I’ve always heard that cliche’ “more than the number of stars in the sky” which based on my experience I interpret as “eleven”.

[Hot Tabasco]

The luminous glow of light pollution prevents nearly 80 percent of people in North America from seeing the Milky Way in the night sky.

I say BS to this, it's the ambient light from cities........

The most vivid night time skies I had ever witnessed in my life was when on my regular pheasant hunting trips to N.W. Kansas and we stayed in the landowner's farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere.

Being an early riser, I'd get up at about 4:30 a.m., make coffee and go sit out in the yard smoking cigarettes and staring at the night sky..........

The owls and the distant coyotes just added to the experience........

[ripnbang]

It’s Trump’s fault...

[RegulatorCountry]

I could see the Milky Way in this part of North Carolina as a child. That changed with the advent of those orange sodium vapor streetlights. The old blue ones didn’t cast such a glow.

[Jolla]

I lived near the beach in San Francisco and had a backyard facing west, we got a relative good amount of star gazing for a large city. But when we went up to Mendocino county, with no moon it was unbelievable, and I am very thankful I got to see it so many times.

[Yaelle]

SoCal has never seen it. I’ve seen it up in Mariposa, CA and other parts of the world.

[TalonDJ]

Sucks to be you guys. I can see it in my backyard.

[notdownwidems]

Solution:
1. Get in car
2. Drive to country
3. Look up, see God’s magnificence
The End

[terycarl]

That is absolutely true, we vacation on some land that we own in far northern Wisconsin....the night skies there are FANTASTIC and that does not give then enough credit....the Milky Way, the northern lights.....WONDERFUL.....

[dfwgator]

You can always move to North Korea.

[Larry Lucido]

It’s okay. Not planning to go to the Milky Way anyway. And if I do, I’ll use GPS to get there. :-)