Cities without light Pollution

[naronic]

Cities without light pollution would look great wouldn't they not?
Photoshop says so.
http://imgur.com/gallery/Yrb9S

Shanghai below

[TheColourAwesome]

Truly a Reddit worth post. Upvote good sir.

[OfficeGalactic]

At 6/19/13 04:38 PM, naronic wrote: Cities without light pollution would look great wouldn't they not?
Photoshop says so.
http://imgur.com/gallery/Yrb9S

Shanghai below

pretty

[Uniporn]

Light pollution is a real problem, where I'm from there are no more space observatories because of it. It is really sad how tourism kills science and scientific research.

[Insanctuary]

not enough stars

[Mumbo]

At 6/19/13 06:50 PM, Uniporn wrote: Light pollution is a real problem, where I'm from there are no more space observatories because of it. It is really sad how tourism kills science and scientific research.

Do science in space.

[Sekhem]

At 6/19/13 06:52 PM, Insanctuary wrote: not enough stars

too many stars

[tox]

There is a deep lack of car lights right now
Fake n gayyy

[Sekhem]

At 6/19/13 06:54 PM, tox wrote: There is a deep lack of car lights right now
Fake n gayyy

rickshaws don't have headlights, c'mon tox

[Insanctuary]

At 6/19/13 06:53 PM, Sekhem wrote: too many stars

not enough piece of shits

[Sekhem]

At 6/19/13 06:55 PM, Insanctuary wrote:

At 6/19/13 06:53 PM, Sekhem wrote: too many stars

not enough piece of shits

piece of shits?

you should really hit the books, insank (pronounced like the boy band n*sync)

[BumFodder]

At 6/19/13 06:50 PM, Uniporn wrote: Light pollution is a real problem, where I'm from there are no more space observatories because of it. It is really sad how tourism kills science and scientific research.

Where are you from?

[tox]

At 6/19/13 06:55 PM, Sekhem wrote:

At 6/19/13 06:54 PM, tox wrote: There is a deep lack of car lights right now
Fake n gayyy

rickshaws don't have headlights, c'mon tox

Yeah but Toyota preludes and ford fits and smart cars do
Get on the level sekhem

[Sekhem]

At 6/19/13 07:03 PM, tox wrote:

At 6/19/13 06:55 PM, Sekhem wrote:

At 6/19/13 06:54 PM, tox wrote: There is a deep lack of car lights right now
Fake n gayyy

rickshaws don't have headlights, c'mon tox

Yeah but Toyota preludes and ford fits and smart cars do
Get on the level sekhem

shanghai ain't canada, tox

they haven't invented cars yet

[Insanctuary]

At 6/19/13 06:57 PM, Sekhem wrote: you should really hit the books, insank (pronounced like the boy band n*sync)

finally someone comes up with a decent parody of my name

[satanbrain]

Cities would look great without light.

[19-2000]

Light level: cheap-sitcom-when-it's-a-night-scene-but-we-the-audience-sti ll-have-to-see-the-actors-so-they-just-dim-the-room-and-shin e-a-dark-blue-spotlight-on-the-actors-and-no-one-really-beli eves-it's-night-because-we-can-all-see-them-but-what-can-we-
do-because-this-is-the-current-sitcom-night-scene-lighting-p aradigm.

But yeah, light pollution. Stars are cool. Industrialization is bad. Boo light. Also, on a related note: yay, light!

[HollowedPumkinz]

Yeah, stars are cool. All it takes is a half hour drive towards a small town region to escape light pollution for me. Of course lights are a must in metropolitan cities to reduce traffic accidents and street crime but yeah, the stars are awesome, reminds us what's really up there above us, neat.

[Viper]

Cities definitely look better with more stars and less....not.....stars.....

[GoodLuckTurtle]

I've been to Shanghai before. The air is pretty polluted, but it was interesting because I've never seen or smelled anything like it before. Here where I live the air is so clean and fresh.

[Shauna]

When I lived in Hawai'i there were nothing by amazingly bright stars as far as I could see.

[Entice]

At 6/19/13 06:50 PM, Uniporn wrote: It is really sad how tourism kills science and scientific research.

They'll always find a remote mountain or something to build an observatory on.
There's not a shortage of empty space on Earth.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

I live in the Upper Midwest theres nothing but stars and the moon.

[Uniporn]

At 6/20/13 01:16 AM, Entice wrote:

At 6/19/13 06:50 PM, Uniporn wrote: It is really sad how tourism kills science and scientific research.

They'll always find a remote mountain or something to build an observatory on.
There's not a shortage of empty space on Earth.

1st- there is no such thing as empty space as we know it but I know what you mean:
"Well if you are bothered by light pollution take a telescope and go to the middle of fucking nowhere"
2nd- if there is light pollution mountainous won't help. You will mostly be able to see things right above you.

[Farscape123]

At 6/19/13 04:38 PM, naronic wrote: Cities without light pollution would look great wouldn't they not?
Photoshop says so.
http://imgur.com/gallery/Yrb9S

Shanghai below

Pyongyang has pretty limited light pollution. The only other option is to have all light facing toward the ground, but that makes it pretty difficult to guide planes in. You would need to have a city with very short buildings and no airport or seaport for this to be even close to possible. Still, limiting light pollution in cities would be awesome. You have to reduce air pollution too, though, if you want to see the stars.

[Painbringer]

Eliminating light pollution doesn't necessarily mean turning off all the lights.

Simply going back to firelight (or equivalent) should accomplish the same.

Now photoshop that!

[372]

Pretty beautiful. I live on long island and I remember right after hurricane sandy, when all the power on the island went out, I went outside and saw more stars in one sky then I ever had before.

[D-Nightmare]

I remember that one giant power outage that affected most of the northeastern US and southern Ontario about 10 years ago. Biking for ice and pop, plus REAL flashlight tag in the middle of the D was never so much fun.