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The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009
An anonymous reader writes "2009 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo's observations of Venus, Saturn and Jupiter published in Sidereus Nuncius ('Starry Messenger'). To improve scientific literacy, the NOAO and NASA are promoting dark-sky initiatives in 2009 to draw attention to the problem of light pollution which obscures nearly all night sky colors and objects except for the moon and a few bright stars and planets. Project Illuminati is a Flickr project by James Cann to showcase the beauty of light pollution to raise awareness and educate fellow Earthmates to lower energy consumption and become more curious about our place in the universe."
Efficiency is good, here. Skyglow is an evil thing, and stupid, in my estimation. If all those lights could be replaced with LEDs of limited frequency spread, perhaps filtering the interference could be enabled. Legislation, anyone? I am not an astronomer, but this is one more area where I feel violated, and fuck all of y'all if you think ruining MY night sky is alright.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.