collapse of the old society
to discuss news and stuff of the old world dying
Many cities are putting in street lamps that reduce light pollution so I don't think this will be true. They may have issues taking good photos of celestial objects if we keep putting up LEO satellite constellations like StarLink though.
I'm 28 years old. My dying wish is to see a clear night sky with no light pollution. I want to see what our ancestors saw every night of their lives. I want to see the arm of the milky way. I want to see space in its entirety.
I'm 28 years old and will probably never get to see any of that in my lifetime. It's not just a problem future generations have to deal with but current and former.
We're fucking up so bad.
Take a hiking trip to some remote area on a day with good weather conditions. Bring some warm cloth as these days usually come with cold nights.
It's definitely not impossible to see a night-sky like that. I have seen it multiple times in my life. But yeah, it requires some preparation and travelling these days.
I've never seen the milky way and I'm already in my 50s.
I gotchya fam
Edit:
That's honestly saddening.
I'm In my 30s but live in a small town and we go 60kms in one direction and you can see the milkyway and millions of stars.
Go 1200kms and it gets breathtaking in the desert of Australia
It's even more beautiful than I imagined!
I didn’t know you can see Milky Way. I saw some photos online that I thought are just made up artworks for quite a long time
We are in it, at the edge, so any face on views where you can see the spiral are artists' impressions, but you can see it side on, more so in the southern hemisphere without light pollution, as a line of stars across the sky.
We're about two thirds the way out on one of the arms. We aren't at the edge.
Ok fine, not quite at the edge, but towards the edge. We're not at the centre, for sure.
Yes but what happens if the stars start blinking for us?