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The night sky is not ruined if you live rural, it's just like it is before, albeit with more higher magnitude fast moving objects.
by Grimburger 4y ago
The night sky is not ruined if you live rural, it's just like it is before, albeit with more higher magnitude fast moving objects.
- inawarminister 4y agoThat reminds me of the story of an Old Believer Russian family that moved to Siberia around the 1920s and was only found again by Soviet miners in 1970s. The patriach of the family was not educated, but he and his children managed to infer that the fast moving stars newly risen in the 1950s to be man-made stars (satellites). Sorry. 1936-1978. Still Here you go: "though he steadfastly refused to believe that man had set foot on the moon, he adapted swiftly to the idea of satellites. The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when “the stars began to go quickly across the sky,” and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: “People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-rus...
- imiric 4y agoGive it a few years.