<story><title>You Can See the Milky Way</title><url>http://www.youcanseethemilkyway.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisGranger</author><text>Living in the city, light pollution drives me a little bit crazy. I don&amp;#x27;t understand why so many people seem to be OK with &lt;i&gt;losing our ability to see the stars&lt;/i&gt;... It also implies squandered electricity (and money).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HCIdivision17</author><text>When I stayed with my mom for a week in NYC, I was shocked by how bright the sky at night was. Literally it glowed orange. I felt like I was in the D&amp;#x27;ni caverns from Myst, and it really wore on me. My best guess is that one just stops looking up after a while. Or, as a sibling comment notes, you look down at the city as your new sky.&lt;p&gt;Cities can take on a sort of self-importance, an introspective ego, anyhow, since there&amp;#x27;s so much available that you can be permanently distracted from looking outward or upward. Can&amp;#x27;t say it wasn&amp;#x27;t a fun place, but it&amp;#x27;s not my cuppa joe. But I could easily imagine a [native?] city dweller feeling like they&amp;#x27;re not missing anything.&lt;p&gt;[EDIT: I guess I just figure some people live in the city because it gives them everything they need. But it certainly made me feel like I lost my sky. I&amp;#x27;d be curious to know if you grew up in the city; so far, it seems like that feeling of loss or wrongness is just for people who grew up outside them.]</text></comment>
<story><title>You Can See the Milky Way</title><url>http://www.youcanseethemilkyway.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisGranger</author><text>Living in the city, light pollution drives me a little bit crazy. I don&amp;#x27;t understand why so many people seem to be OK with &lt;i&gt;losing our ability to see the stars&lt;/i&gt;... It also implies squandered electricity (and money).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>I grew up in a very small town and I used to sit very long periods under the stars doing nothing. It was kind of meditation. I moved to the city when I went to uni and started missing it more and more; you hardly could see anything there and it didn&amp;#x27;t give me the same rest sitting outside. A while ago I looked for a new place to live after the city and I picked that place specifically based on viewing stars as one of the highest priorities on my list. I live in a village deep in the mountains; there is no light in the village at night, there are no cities nearby and the rest is shielded by the mountains. If you have never seen something like this you definitely are missing something worthwhile and yes, I can see the milky way, almost every night.</text></comment>