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Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Galloway.Is it any wonder - as the night sky is increasingly blotted out by light pollution. Who in the UK really gets to see a really 'dark' sky nowadays ? TSaN is a great programme, but how can you interest folk in stuff they have no longer any chance of seeing or participating in/ enjoying?
The great panic tonight on the news about the 'frightening prospect of the lights going out' made me laugh - our still fairly rural county here (Cambs) is lit up like Las Vegas at night as even the smallest of villages is infested with orange streetlights every 10 yards or so - just switch the feckers off FFS!
(most of the time, unless it's foggy)
George Galloway? Might work, and he'll do anything for a bit of airtime.Galloway.
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No, but flies can badger.
Is it any wonder - as the night sky is increasingly blotted out by light pollution, who in the UK really gets to see a really 'dark' sky nowadays ? TSaN is a great programme, but how can you interest folk in stuff they have no longer any chance of seeing or participating in/ enjoying?
The great panic tonight on the news about the 'frightening prospect of the lights going out' made me laugh - our still fairly rural county here (Cambs) is lit up like Las Vegas at night as even the smallest of villages is infested with orange streetlights every 10 yards or so - just switch the feckers off FFS!
GallowayYou can just about see the Milky Way overhead from our village, but anything to the SW is obliterated by Cambridge. Sadly, as this recent light pollution map shows, only small patches of Norfolk remain light polltion free, It's really only bits of Wales, parts of Cumberland and Northumberland and the far NW of Scotland where you get proper dark.
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He can come along too. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/darkskygallowayGeorge Galloway? Might work, and he'll do anything for a bit of airtime.
Agree that much of the English sky is swamped by the light from towns and cities, however it's still possible to see fantastic views of the sky in Scotland away from Central Belt and probably also large parts of Wales. Maybe there is a need for 'sky' tourism?
France has taken a sort of lead this year :
New York Times:
France Will Dim Its Lights to Conserve Energy
or Daily Mail:
BankruptFrogsFrance set to save £600m - by turning off the lights