[sagar]

“People are talking about the needlessness of shining streetlights and your house floodlights into the sky”

Who shines needlessly into the sky? The lights shine and a fraction of it is bounced back to the sky. When there are hundreds of thousands of lights, the sky would be naturally “polluted”. Look at the night sky from space. Civilized places have glowing nights. If you want to see the best view of the milky way, nobody is stopping you from going to Africa or Antarctica. Btw, the modern Western Civilization was built on electricity. Hands off “muh electricity”.

[Enchante]

great views of the Milky Way from North Korea

[VanDeKoik]

"Who shines needlessly into the sky?"









"When there are hundreds of thousands of lights, the sky would be naturally “polluted”."

*facepalm* When you have incredibly bright lights that have no top shield, or are just pointed straight out, that is FAR DIFFERENT.

"Look at the night sky from space. Civilized places have glowing nights."

And what does this have to do with anything?

It's almost like you guys know what we are talking about, but purposely try to be obtuse by acting like not having floodlights by the tens of thousands shining light dead up into the sky, blotting out the stars, is the same as NO LIGHTS. Here is a cartoon so that it can be explained simply.



"If you want to see the best view of the milky way, nobody is stopping you from going to Africa or Antarctica."

"Well if you want to pray, go to a church". Yeah sounds more or less the same.

"Btw, the modern Western Civilization was built on electricity."

So not only do you lack basic astronomy knowledge, but you have never picked up a history book either.