"The majority of children born today will never see the Milky Way"
"The majority of children born today will never see the Milky Way"
For as long as we’ve been human, we’ve looked to the sky to find ourselves. Ever-increasing light pollution threatens not just our sense of identity, but our relationship with the whole biosphere.
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Your experience reminds me of the time I was sailing on the Java Sea. On deck at night, lit by starlight, I could look up and see the Milky Way from horizon to horizon. It was the closest I've ever come to having a transcendent religious experience, like I was in direct connection with the infinite.
Humanity robbed itself of a true treasure if you ask me.
Couldn't agree more. It should be mandatory for all humans to see it at least once.
I've never seen the milky way and I'm already in my 50s.
I gotchya fam
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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!
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.
There are still better places for observation...
The majority of children born today are born in densely populated - and highly polluted - cities where they can't see the stars, and are unlikely to ever have enough disposable income to travel for pleasure. The thesis holds.
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 are in it, but we can see the narrow profile of the galactic disk in the sky.
I've seen the Milky Way in Australia and New Zealand. It's beautiful and full of shooting stars. I never knew you could see so much from Earth.
I don't think there's any way to see this in Europe, even from the least polluted place.
I don't even live next to a road and yet there's light everywhere. Why do we need that anyways? I can barely sleep
Yes but what happens if the stars start blinking for us?
All humans with the gift of sight see the Milky Way
in this case - technically correct is not the best kind of correct...