Light Pollution: Our Vanishing Night
December 12th, 2008Clear skies at night here on the Farmlet are astonishing. They put the whole show on Earth into perspective. Owen is going to have great fun with a telescope here!
Via: National Geographic:
Living in a glare of our own making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural patrimony—the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night. In a very real sense, light pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way—the edge of our galaxy—arching overhead.
