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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.'"
I live in Los Angeles. One day I went up to Yosemite to hike Half-Dome. It's a long hike, so we started at 3 in the morning. When we broke out of the trees, I looked up and shit my pants.
Sorry, but me missing you shitting your pants is absolutely fine with me. Thanks for the concern though.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
That's cool for your kid, but what about the kids in the southern hemisphere whom will never see Polaris?
They're more than welcome to visit! We're a two hour drive from the international airport. Exercise to the reader which airport that is!
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