<story><title>I&apos;ve overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&amp;#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nologic01</author><text>An added bonus of a dark sky is that with a good pair of eyes (and more democratically, with a set of binoculars) you can see all sort of clusters, nebulae, Jupiter&amp;#x27;s moons and e.g., Andromeda.&lt;p&gt;While not as breathtaking as the panoramic view of a truly dark sky, experiencing this &amp;quot;micro-structure&amp;quot; is also a mind-expanding experience: The sky is no longer a set of random point sources. Its an organic &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot; enclosing other &amp;quot;things&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;ve overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&amp;#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ruined</author><text>i think one of the greatest crimes of the modern world is light pollution. it has completely redefined nearly everyone&amp;#x27;s perception of the universe and themselves in a really tragic way.&lt;p&gt;we would all be better off with fewer lights on buildings, and fewer streetlights. there is no reason for most of them, and the cost is existentially incredible.</text></comment>