light pollution - bleah!

[LiberalJerseyman]

Light pollution also affects drivers, animals, and birds.

[d3tach3d]

I live near Eastern Oregon. Its the best!

[gjgjkg]

Here in northern NJ south of new york there are only a handful of stars that can be seen. There is a lot of that orange glow in the sky on most nights. When I went to an area further from the city I was amazed at how many stars I could see and I even saw the milky way for once. I didnt even know there were that many stars 0.0 pretty cool

[carlosvgonzalez]

Light polution is also connected with high cancer rate among humans, because of the lack of melatonin hormone, produced when we fall at sleep, but light polution makes our organismo not work with the correct cycle, also migratory birds chock against lighted buildings, and frogs don't reproduced, insects invade our homes, etc etc, so and why do we have light turned all night wasting resources when all we want and shoud do is sleep!!!

[robotmonkey73]

I live north of you in the Santa Clarita valley and the glow still persists up hear

[kwakhed23]

@robotmonkey73 Ah, but a bit north of that is Mt. Pinos, which has the darkest skies I've ever seen! (Maybe being at 8300 feet has something to do with that...)

[propaghandi2]

I hear you man! Light pollution sux!

[boatofcoins]

it makes me happy to hear a smart american speak. you're absolutely right, the night sky can unify people, but of course, why would the government want that? Why would a corporation want free, clear thinker, they want to think for us. Fuck the New World Order

[Zukney]

im glad i live in the country =P

[JUJ71]

The only pollution that we can simply arreter by pressing on a button, let us move our politics(policies) stopping place in the wasting good sky to all!

french astronomer

[ZOMGITZROFLCOPTER]

You can... I go hunting and once we got lost in the woods at night...(long story). I could see EVERYTHING in the sky. It was awesome but light pollution isn't HURTING anyone! It isn't technically "pollution".

[garysizer]

I hate the orange purple glow!

[nataliejade3]

i can't belive you guys can't see the sky at all!!

i live in australia and i can still see basically everything and when i go to my shack in the country there arent any stars that you dont see, its really bright at night BECAUSE of the stars

[cryps1]

if you can see the clouds at night, you have light pollution :O

[CutterSlade]

Seriously, you are completely right. It really strikes me. Past generations seemed much more creative, greatly inspired. Look at the amount of visionaries of past centuries and look at NOW.

It seems to me, as if we're just administrating humanity these days. Where's the inspiration? I mean, people today must think that the tiny amount of stars they see in the sky is everything.

Seeing a REAL nightsky must be awe inspiring (i never saw one :( ), making everyone humble and curious!!

[1ownjoo2]

Yea this video shows what my sky looks like here in Virginia, i was thinking of buying a 8" Donson telescope to check out the sky but now i dunno if i should spend the money for it. The sky here at 12-4AM is pretty much what your sky looks like. I can count maybe 5 stars with the naked eye.

I wish they would do something about all this light pollution but no one will so all of us who want to look at the sky suffer.

[ishouldplayzelda]

5?!?!?!?!?! man, you got it better than me! i only have like 2 or 3 stars here in MOTHER FUCKING LIGHT POLLUTED UTAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and the worst part is that the empty black sky makes me feel alone and really depressed and having to go to remote areas to see a half full sky isn't any better because i'm still alone there. oh yeah, and there's a fucking acorn street lamp literally right in front of my house.

[windybeaver]

They make eyepiece filters for telescopes to help with light pollution

[fsdgrgddigijbndgfd]

No, we have to put telescopes into space (The hubble) it's only 2 meteres, and the biggest telescope on Earth, is about 47 meters.

the hubble still outshines it, and the main reason it does is that it has no Atmosphere to look through.

[jmoe241124]

Dude.....time to move outta L.A.!!! I feel your pain though. Light pollution sucks!!! I have a celestron cpc1100 gps and i would go crazy if i lived out there with that poor sky view. Nothing better than a dark sky and the sound of the night. And I agree with you about everyone being "one" with the night sky. Peace.

[jamieball]

its too bad we can't see the night sky as well as we once could.. it is so beautiful

[vicamaral]

just think of all the money that could be saved if the the ligths were turned of,this is goverment ingeneard i live in rhode island i have to go to main to see the milkyway wow its so beutiful with your bare eyes no telescope needed,and pleace resist the new world order obama we are going to loose are guns so it will be easyear for them to take over.damn

[invader200]

I hate not being able to see the stars from my house the only time I got to see the stars was when I went to outdoor school and that was years ago and I wish the governments of the world would tackle these problems facing the us right now as a hole instead of going to war causing destruction and death

[kingneptune117]

ya i hate it. I can never see anything besides jupiter, venus, and moon

[Bulovaz]

It's so true, we need to all be able to look up and be connected.

[pixelpink]

I miss seeing the stars too... from here in vegas there's almost nothing to see in the night sky. In Washington state though, as a kid, the sky was just illuminated with stars!

[wearejusthumanbeing]

i remember when i was young, i can see milky way at night and every constellations, with the big moon along with all the stars, it was so nice. I can lying down all night and watch the sky...

[beatityatube]

Is there a soundtrack to this? I'm not hearing anything. :-(

[kwakhed23]

nope... no soundtrack... just ramblings and quiet rantings...

sorry about what they're doing near you... *hands you some giant wire clippers* remember: you just happened upon those; no idea where they came from...

[beatityatube]

Ah I hear it now. I have a long cable that lets me switch between headphones and speakers, somehow there was nothing connected (probably cat related). I still got the gist of it even without sound. Too true! Thanks for the virtual wire cutters, now all I need is a slingshot and those Home Depot lights are history. Hello Andromeda Galaxy, hello Universe. ;-)

[beatityatube]

It amazes me how al the stores in Downtown Houston remain lit up like Christmas trees hours after closing. This is not just light pollution but an obscene waste of energy. I had a good field behind here I was able to set up my telescope until recently when the apartment management opposite and the Home Depot installed new lights all in about the same month. Even out at the observatory at Brazos bend I have noticed the sky is getting poorer.

[tsadrummer]

shut off your lights if your not using them , seriously.i can't really think of anything else to say , thanks

[Medigato]

I AGREE

shut your lights if you are not using them

don't use neon tubes if at all possible

always point your lights downwards to the ground

try not to use white light, better use yellow or red lights

thanks, keep the skies clean of stray light

[keldererik]

I live in a city, and I share your thoughts. Once I went on holiday in germany, somewhere not so populated area in the mountains, and I was surprised how bright the stars were. It is beautifull and we only see this glow..

[alienevolved]

astronomy tools v1,5 can solve your light pollution problems if your taking images!

[fecalroy]

Yeah, Like, outlaw electricity and stuff. You know, even if we were all shitting in the dirt like the indians still, the Hubble telescope would be far superior to anything earthbound. Eco-trendy-hippy-douche.

[kwakhed23]

i know people who have had time on both the hubble and the keck 10m scopes on mauna kea. far superior? do you know anything about optics? no, i guess you don't -- the keck with adaptive optics gave higher resolution images. it's also evident you didn't follow the link in the information.

do some research before you spew idiocy. thanks for playing, but you clearly lose.

[SardonicusRexx]

Already we see this next generation more superficial and less introspective. Remove the stars, and you remove the inducement to ponder our place in the cosmos. And so the intellect of people like this is even further stunted.

I have a laser-sighted pellet gun. I named it Carl. :-)

Anyway, making sure that light goes downward from streetlights (etc.) can lower energy consumption (because you only light what you need lit), which is good for everything.

[mfrat26]

The night sky has been part of our heritage since man could look up. The power companies are under the delusion that the night sky belongs to them only. More lights at night when power usage is low. More dollars for them. Less wildlife but more dollars.

[anglepegasi]

soo...all the light glow come from the citys light? and cover the sky? not the cloud cover the sky?

[kwakhed23]

on the night i picked, it was cloudy, but the glow visible in the sky is not very different without clouds. it's much too bright on most nights.

[michiokaku]

like it

[hliaska]

You can steel find dark areas in Greece . Unfortunately i don t believe for many years.

[cozmic321]

yea that glow just ruins everything

[mpbdes]

yea i know what you mean.. sometimes we have bad light light pollution but sometimes we have a very good picture of the sky like last night

[Lagwagon555]

viva new zealand!

[kwakhed23]

yes -- i'd love to get there. have i mentioned how much prettier i think the southern hemisphere sky is?

[pyr666]

they have anti-videogame laws...

but it does look beautiful

[747dog]

move to easter island...

[matcormpuff]

Up in Northern ontario away from cities it's amazing how good you can see the night. I'm thankful that I can witness this everynight .The light pollution really affects bird migration too. It probably affects humans in ways we can't imagine.

[kwakhed23]

that's awesome that you have that opportunity that regularly. i wonder what it does to our mental state. it would be very hard to determine, considering every other variable that gets mixed into areas that produce light pollution. i do know how placid i feel when i see a sky without it, though.

[pyr666]

humans average sleep has gone from 8 hours to 7-6 hours since the invention of the lightbulb.

[abby724]

I live in one a suburbian part of southern California... Light pollution is really disgusting where I live. I grew up in a developing country too (big cities are myths there XD) so I get pretty wistful looking up at the sky...

[kpung019]

It only takes a hr or 2 to get to a remote area. Plus what are we going to do, turn all our headlights off at night, turn all the street and yard lights off, so people can burglarize our homes. Get over it, and move to the country.

[kwakhed23]

in the megalopolis between richmond and boston, there is nowhere to go that has a dark sky any more. if you'd bothered to follow the link in the description, you'd have seen solutions that save energy and make sense. go take a look prior to issuing facetious comments like this.

[veryverybadwolf]

For years more lights have been hailed as the solution to crime, then why is the so much crime in cities and I can name half a dozen people who have been mugged under the street lights they where told would reduce crime.

[zero0sin]

You can thank the masons for blocking the sky. Yes, the Masons. It has been their mission to block the sky, whether through pollution or from having too much light down here to distract people from looking up. Their motive is basically to remove the mind from any sort of imagination. (why? to keep the masses in this rat race that it is in now)

[zero0sin]

(continued...) Looking up with awe into the night sky is one example of submitting oneself to mystery and the imagination. This is without a doubt true. If You want to get out of this global net of a spider web, you should probably leave every "developed" region of the world to poorer areas on this Earth.

[aledplas123]

I have spent few nights in cardiff wales not a big city but the sky is very dirty. not like when we are back in cardigan west wales the sky is so clear and dark very dark.

[Lorinand]

ugh i hate light pollution

[Ampman7]

Having been an avid backpacker in Collorado and Arizona, I have spent many evenings in the mountains, sky gazing. Their you can detect depth and see the shape of our galaxy from our position, with your eyes. It makes one more aware of air polution and light polution. An enjoyable experience I recomend to everyone.

[bigsmall246]

Wow the glow is bad over in America. No wonder all the hoo-ha over light pollution.

[beherit15]

I live in an urban area in Guatemala, but I will always remember the first time i saw the "milky way", It was so fascinating. When blackouts occur I always look to the sky.

[kwakhed23]

and being nearer to the equator, you get to see more of the entire night sky -- including the absolutely gorgeous area near the southern cross. not that i'm wishing losses of power on you, but i hope you get to see that often.

[sstdog]

the southern cross, im in australia and thats in my night sky

[ge0metr1x]

thank you for the video, and to all you haters, he isn't implying that we be trapped in ancient times, rather just to keep in mind the true reality of things, and yes we have been cut off from our true source. If you want an example, a very very amazing movie can be veiwed at zeitgeistmovie DOT com.

[jduh1]

does artificial light really kill the earth?? i don't get it but i wanna see the real sky someday.....

[kwakhed23]

does it directly kill the earth? no, but shining lights up into the sky is a waste of energy. designing lights to cut down light pollution would also make them more efficient.

i hope you get a chance to see it.

[Ckmckenn]

I think everybody has a right to look up and see the stars

[stang46l]

Yeah it sucks I remember the first time I saw the milky way I was blown away. Light pollution is definitely annoying. I have to drive 4 hours to really get away from the light pollution

[Messier81Galaxy]

Nice video!!! =) im thinking about buying a telescope, because since i was a kid i was always intressted of the moon, and space, the stars and so on. So i hope, in the future i will have money for a telescope! =)

[phexus82]

Good video, and I hate light polution. I live in Walla Walla, and we have the state pen here and its always generating a lot of light polution.. mostly just in the northern sky though so I can still look to the east and south and see lots of wonderfull things. I agree with all your thoughts.. I am so glad I don't live in a big city, I would go crazy.

[sparksilence]

It is under light pollution and other pollution that we are forgetting who we are and destroying ourselves and the planet. If we had a clear view of the night sky, then we would feel that sense of "awe" and not only reduce light pollution but appreciate our home planet. Light pollution dehumanizes us just as much as any of the things that are going wrong today.

[kwakhed23]

very well stated! thank you!

[minymon]

poor bastard - kids are starving, reefs are dying, ozone is depleting, icecaps are melting, species are becoming extinct and you whinge about light in the sky. - heres a quick solution - and i know nothing about this but - why dont you move to an unpopulated area to observe stars ? oh and pimple cream from the chemist :)

[jasonharris951]

how about you worry about all this shit instead of worrying about his opinion. And the atmosphere is a part of this planet also, light is a pollution, less of it will do more good to this planet. wtf, tell your story to the rest of the world, they are worried about materialistic things and religion which is not helping out the poor starving kids. And stop farting because you are destroying the ozone.

[jasonharris951]

He did also mention that this is just one of the problems that people are causing on this planet, control your rage fucker and listen to everyword that people say and you might just understand what the fuck they are saying, fuck I need to control my rage, hahaha.

[vergrosern]

"oh and pimple cream from the chemist :)"

Cheap shot. What are you fifteen?

[pinkmo0n]

thanks for posting this.

[pjholl]

Excellent, thanks for posting. Check my profile for my light pollution vid...

[icecorescientist]

playlisted!

light pollution is nightmare

heading my way too! ( and i'm in a rural area)

[kwakhed23]

thank you!

what amazes me is i live somewhere i can't see the andromeda galaxy in an 8" scope, but if i drive for a few hours, i can be somewhere i can watch deep sky objects set. i hope those places stay nice and dark.