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Making War On Light Pollution
Hugh Pickens writes "Almost thirty years ago I worked in the Middle East helping install a nationwide communications system and had the opportunity to be part of a team doing microwave link tests across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter. Something I've never forgotten were the astonishing nights I spent in the desert hundreds of miles from the nearest city where the absence of light made looking at the sky on a moonless night feel like you were floating in the middle of the galaxy. In Galileo's time, nighttime skies all over the world would have merited the darkest Bortle ranking, Class 1. Today, the sky above New York City is Class 9 and American suburban skies are typically Class 5, 6, or 7. The very darkest places in the continental United States today are almost never darker than Class 2, and are increasingly threatened. Read a story from the New Yorker on what we have lost to light pollution and how some cities are adopting outdoor lighting standards to save the darkness."
I tried having sex with a light bulb once, but I think she was a whore. I got such terrible blisters afterwards!
those muslim fucks are forcing people into their religion, murdering resisters and non-believers.
fuck islam, fuck allah, fuck mohammad!
down with the lies of islam. end the tyranny of this shit sucking liars religion.
boycott all products that come from militant islamic countries. drag them down and bury those fucks alive.
Tried that, it's not in the repository.
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?
My post was well intentioned.
Why did yours have to be condescending?
Lissen- I live in Elgin Quebec, 50 miles from the big city and about 20 miles from a piss-poor reasonably-sized town.
/.ers that roué?
And I like to stare at the stars at night. Even WITH the mosquitoes.
Howcum nobody modded you as flamebait?
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Geez...! Go back to watching those crappy 500 channels on your shitty 42" Japan-built LCS 1080p TV and leave us planet-lovers alone, you troglodyte.
And drink a quart of Pinoqachole to pass out; perhaps permanently. Just make sure your ex turns off all the lights first.
Well look at this missile then. hilarious with these drunks :-) FIRE MISSILE
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