by solserenade » Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:37 am
StargeezerJack wrote:Appropriate. One day after Darkened Cities, an artist's view of nighttime over large cities, the APOD is a real image of nighttime Earth: overwhelming light pollution and a sky few people see anymore. Thank you APOD editors for showing us two possible futures. Ah, but which one will we choose? I choose dark skies and starlight. You? Will we learn in time to save the Milky Way? Or will we allow the corporations and the money-mongers amongst us to dominate and control us all? Ask questions. See Answers. Earth First In Things, Thoughts, Deeds, Decisions.
http://www.darkskyinitiative.org
Right on - Great post!
I choose darkness. It's a battle (though I'm blessed, relatively, with rather dark skies) - but my point:
I have no exterior lights on timers, etc. - "safety light"
Every external light (only 3) are low-watt and shaded carefully to project only down and an angle. *Including* respect for neighbors (even if a valley away) who are "horizontal" from my position.
I'm one of those saps that gets sad thinking about people unable to ever get a sense of the Earth even being in space - that it rotates, travels along, etc. - maybe even stop and think about WHY? ("What's up with the Ecliptic? I go to SuperCuts".)
Not to mention simple navigation, sublime beauty, perspective (a t.v. alternative), peace, Aurora/spaceweather/optics, etc.
......
Ya put up a thick enough veil, all that is no longer available, save for old pictures.
[quote="StargeezerJack"]Appropriate. One day after Darkened Cities, an artist's view of nighttime over large cities, the APOD is a real image of nighttime Earth: overwhelming light pollution and a sky few people see anymore. Thank you APOD editors for showing us two possible futures. Ah, but which one will we choose? I choose dark skies and starlight. You? Will we learn in time to save the Milky Way? Or will we allow the corporations and the money-mongers amongst us to dominate and control us all? Ask questions. See Answers. Earth First In Things, Thoughts, Deeds, Decisions.
http://www.darkskyinitiative.org[/quote]
Right on - Great post!
I choose darkness. It's a battle (though I'm blessed, relatively, with rather dark skies) - but my point:
I have no exterior lights on timers, etc. - "safety light" :evil:
Every external light (only 3) are low-watt and shaded carefully to project only down and an angle. *Including* respect for neighbors (even if a valley away) who are "horizontal" from my position.
I'm one of those saps that gets sad thinking about people unable to ever get a sense of the Earth even being in space - that it rotates, travels along, etc. - maybe even stop and think about WHY? ("What's up with the Ecliptic? I go to SuperCuts".)
Not to mention simple navigation, sublime beauty, perspective (a t.v. alternative), peace, Aurora/spaceweather/optics, etc.
......
Ya put up a thick enough veil, all that is no longer available, save for old pictures.