One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Cosmos Magazine: "Light pollution has caused one-fifth of the world's population — mostly in Europe, Britain and the US — to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky. 'The arc of the Milky Way seen from a truly dark location is part of our planet's natural heritage,' said Connie Walker, and astronomer from the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. Yet 'more than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the US population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way.'"

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Re:You don't even know you're missing it.

[somersault]

then I ever imagined

What? What did you ever imagine? The suspense is killing me.

Sorry, I just hate when people confuse than and then. I don't know why it happens. I suppose it has probably been going on for at least a few decades but I just didn't notice because I mostly spoke to people rather than typed - but now everyone and his dog is posting online so the failings of English teachers the world over are becoming apparent.

It was a very cool post apart from that :/