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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Thanks to light pollution and pollution pollution just seeing the stars can be hard enough for many

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i remember reading an article about a blackout in some big US city (can't remember which), and people called 911 because the sky looked scary. they could see the milky way for the first time.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it was LA? If I remember right people were calling and observatory and some people thought they were UFOs

[–] xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

This made me think of Asimov's Nightfall...

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