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100 years ago, lots of them were.

• iudqnolq 7y ago
  Kind of. Some on mountains near cities, but even then light polution was an issue they had to mitigate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_telescopes_in_the_20th_century?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_telesc... In general, I'm fine with scientists needing to accommodate people more than they had to 100 years ago.
  • greglindahl 7y ago
    That list of telescopes only goes back to 1932, and I studied astronomy at one of the institutions in question. As an example, why is this area named Observatory Hill? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Observatory+Hill,+Cambridge,+MA+02138,+USA/@42.3817392,-71.1344962,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e3776d1ec85c91:0xae23dbc6ed061fa6!8m2!3d42.382442!4d-71.1310717 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Observatory+Hill,+Cambridg... > In general, I'm fine with scie!tists needing to accommodate people more than they had to 100 years ago. Indeed, that's the majority opinion.
    • iudqnolq 7y ago
      You're right, not quite 100 years.
      • greglindahl 7y ago
        ... it's named Observatory Hill, in the middle of Cambridge Massachusetts, quite near to downtown Boston, because it has an observatory that used to work great before light pollution.