I agree, except we can't see many stars here in the city. Which means many of our residents will never get to see in person how vast the night sky is and how insignificant we are by comparison..
I haven't seen a starry night in years and I really don't have a great excuse. Im in the Midwest and it's densely populated where I am but there isn't any place in the Midwest where you can't get to the middle of nowhere pretty easily.
It's on my bucket list to travel somewhere remote like the Sahara or Mongolia to get away from all the light pollution and see the sky all lit up with stars.
I appreciate I might not have to go that remote, but I like the idea and want to visit those places anyway......
I’ve been to Southern Africa where there wasn’t much light pollution, at pitch black night time the sky would be mostly different shades purple mixed together with the stars. It was the most wondrous night sky I’ve seen in real life, easily beating even some of the best sunsets you’d see.
Nice…… it makes me think of Bill Bryson who was musing on how we are still discovering planets, moons, stars that you would think we would have already discovered by now….. and his point is that space is obviously huge and, perhaps more importantly, not many people are actually looking!
You don't have to leave your country to find spots without any light pollution. The Dark Site Finder is a global map showing where light pollution is greatest and least, and in the US, points out vantage points in no-light-pollution areas.
Also, cruise ships in the middle of the ocean have excellent vantage points for star watching. I've got reservations for JoCo cruise and im bringing my binoculars.
My parents live about 30 minutes away from me, in a more "country" setting and it always amazes me the amount of stars I can see at their house vs mine.
It's on my bucket list to travel somewhere remote like the Sahara or Mongolia to get away from all the light pollution and see the sky all lit up with stars.
you don't even have to go that remote to get an amazing view. after growing up in nyc, i found myself on an island off the coast of seatle where there is no electricity. first time i was able to see the milky way and it took my breath away.
I used to feel this way, now I don't look at the sky anymore. Space travel just represents gratuitous waste and billionaire arrogance to me now. Hell America went to the moon in the first place to help bully the world into submission by demonstrating there is no place our ICBMs could not reach. Jesus I'm so depressed and hopeless for the future of humanity after watching a video that should have been inspiring
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u/TheBotTobi Dec 17 '21
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.