If only we were more like North Korea ...
Posted on 06/11/2016 8:53:26 AM PDT by samtheman
New Map Shows the Dark Side of Artificial Light at Night ... The most fundamental difficulty, however, has been that no one knows exactly how severe the problem is.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
I've been saying for year that they want us living in caves, eating turnips and riding donkey carts. I forgot to mention candles.
Very enlightening.
Yet 90% wouldn't know they were looking at the Milky Way even if they could see it.
“Map shows where civilization is located.”
Al Gore needs to get on this right away!
We saw the back side of water once at disney world.
made me laugh
Last year I saw the Milky Way like I’d never seen it before, from the northern most tip of New Zealand - no artificial light for many, many miles. It was amazing!
Also, I noticed that they have mostly cut out comments, though a few of the blogs still occasionally have them.
I used to go on occasionally and argue against global warming. The regulars would go crazy at my posts.
Nah, they just wanted you to think that. It's all animitronics, and then they refill the back side of the water after the park closes at night.
This light issue is a perfect example of the liberal problem. The forget why we have street lights to begin with. They forget why on a great many things.
If only we were more like North Korea ...
I didn’t even read the whole article. I will. But I don’t wonder if they even mention the proven effect on crime. More light; less crime.
Would it not be easier and cheaper to locate astronomers where there is not any light pollution rather than try to remake civilization to fit their needs?
On a scale of 1 to 10,000 the ability for me to see the Milky Way is around zero.
Civilization advanced greatly with electric lights, I see no reason to go backward.
Again, this issue is FUBAR because both sides are full of morons that dont get it.
One side calls it “light pollution”, which it is not. Pollution denotes something that is a waste product. Not only that, they then use the issue to push nonsense like “Earth Hour” or rolling brown-outs. They dont give a crap about “preserving the night sky”, they just want to push a nutty eco agenda.
The other side acts like unsheilded lights, that prevent the light from street lamps and floodlights from uselessly going straight up into the sky, are an affront to their constitutional duty to illuminate atmospheric haze at night...because otherwise we will be living in the stone age or they might get raped by bad guys that drop out of the sky....or something.
In the end neither side can get their heads out of their ass long enough to, and those of us that enjoy the wonders of the night sky are the ones that get screwed. Generations of young people never learn about it either.
“Would it not be easier and cheaper to locate astronomers where there is not any light pollution rather than try to remake civilization to fit their needs?”
No. It would be easier and cheaper to cap the tops of street lights and point floodlights towards the ground, where the stuff you actually want to illuminate is located.
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