Only in the most remote deserts, wilderness areas and oceans can you find a sky as dark as our ancestors knew them.
Comment on The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try in a small town. Seriously, tho villages are better. Go in the backroads, you’ll have plenty of sky and stars to get lost in.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]superduperenigma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it’s quite nihilistic to just accept that there’s no going back to a better night sky as if too many lights being kept on a night is an insurmountable problem.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The article is about how there’s less of it over time. Areas that were once nice (ex. Great views over the water or over a nice field) no longer work because of nearby light pollution.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are few places left on Earth to see an unpolluted night sky. Definitely nowhere near civilization. On top of that, light pollution still drowns out dimmer objects permanently. We are blinding ourselves globally. To our ancestors the sky was a living light show. Its no mystery why they thought gods lived there.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
In densely populated areas you have to move quite far out to find such places. Like, check a light pollution map and then scroll into central Europe, like around the Netherlands and western Germany. It's all just a big red blob.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 year ago
You'd be surprised how much "bleeding" there is. You also can't scope in certain directions because of even really far off cities. You're often forced into a specific cone.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Perfection is the enemy of “good-enough and be able to experience in this lifetime”