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You can see the milky way
- fsloth 12y agoBesides the point but the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and North sea are pretty cool. What man made structures can be seen from space? Any that are numerous enough and have electric lighting.
- tluyben2 12y agoSignificantly sized lights in the north of Canada where nothing seems to be when you switch to map/satellite; what would those be?
- quesera 12y agoShale mining operations?
- strictnein 12y agoI'm guessing you're right. It would explain western North Dakota as well, where there is almost nothing to be found.
- chiph 12y agoIn 1985 I was about done with my military commitment, and I was driving across the country with a friend who was getting ready to ship out to South Korea. He couldn't take his car, so we were driving it from California to his mom's house in Georgia. Pulling off the road in New Mexico, we went over a hill away from traffic to take a pee break. Looking up, we were able to see the full Milky Way - the first time I had ever seen all of it. Truly stunning - the people in the brightly-lit Northeast don't know what they're missing by not having a dark night sky.
- teh_klev 12y agoI remember my first time seeing the southern hemisphere view of the night sky from a beach on Stewart Island, New Zealand (Horseshoe Bay) where there's virtually no light pollution. The brightness and detail of that part of the visible universe was so mind bending I fell over and had a Total Perspective Vortex moment.