" The World Is Round...Get Over It."
...and that ladies and gentlemen ( if there be any left) is my motto for the time being !
Its sure been a while ( I should know for sure, its taken me 3 hrs just to get back home!)...nope on a serious trip, I've been beat, and could not get all wired up to be meaningful, so I guess I thought it would be good to just ruminate...or maybe, hibernate ( it sounds more like having your batteries set on charge mode...which is a good thing, I think...gives the impression, you are waiting to get back into the game...I for one ain't sure about that...but heck...who can beat perception...and all of this while I'm listening to The Verve's - Appalachian Springs; HMMM).
But Here I am...This is Me...Back before you could think! ( as you can see, I am in a mood for drama!)
OK,to cut the chase...Nat Geo got me thinking from the word go, the cover aptly titled " The End Of Night"...was very intriguing and made me reflect upon the new menace ( well not exactly new...but, some thing that's been given a thought....Light Pollution.
Our night is truly vanishing...with cities that never sleep...constant activity, 24 hour -TV, Work Places, LasVegas...
maybe this is not true everywhere, but it is getting unique to metropolitan places.
Its having its effects- insomnia on the rise, animals, birds getting confused...now days i can hear birds chirp away in the night...crazy.
Insects clustering around street lights.
Artificially long days...and artificially shorter nights...which slowly but surely wrecking our biological clocks.
We were programmed to parallel natures cycle of night and day...thus we feel sleepy as the day fades away. Darkness, as the article notes" is essential for our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork as light itself." Like we cant mess with gravity...we cant mess with this either...but its happening.
So what exactly is light pollution ?
Well, according to the report it is largely the result of bad lightening design that allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky where it is not wanted, instead of focusing downward where it is.
Looked up from space...it seems nearly all of night time across US/ Europe and gaining ground in Asia...is a nebula of light.
When I look up at the sky nowadays ( its been many many days now, doing the watching bit)...it seems drained of stars for sure...drained of any magic...all you see is the dust and smog...
its a shame....
Its a shame, I have to spend night time writing rather than chasing a dream across the milky way...or just sitting quietly...and watch the kaleidoscope of the night.
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