On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, S.V. van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> Anybody noticed Belgium. It's the best lit state of the EU. And I bet it must
> cost them a fortune to maintain. But it makes for a really wonderfull effect on
> the satalite image.
Wow.
Different starting assumptions here, definitely.
I look at Europe or the NE part of the US on a map like that, and I don't
think "best lit", or about how expensive it must be; I think about what
horrible light pollution that is, and how bad for astronomy.
Tucson's really good about light pollution for a city of its size. The
sky here is darker than it was in my parents' hometown over Thanksgiving,
which has a fifth the people but had snow on the ground to bounce light
back at the sky and has no light-pollution laws.
--
Andrea Leistra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you can keep your head while all those about you are
losing theirs, perhaps you have misunderstood the situation."
-- Daniel Keys Moran, _The Long Run_
