Posted on 03/03/2006 10:33:26 AM PST by formercalifornian
"As for those mockingbirds, males seeking mates sing at night anyway, light pollution or not. "After he finds a girl, he'll stop - unless you have the lights on," Longcore said. In that case, the bird will keep on singing. "He'll be defending his territory," he said."
The only pitiable creature in the mix and he's too stupid to matter.
Yes. If your lifestyle's trapped -- you must adapt!
Take it up at the next meeting of the Perpetually Offended Sobsisters.
Meant to reply to 4, not 8. Sorry. Bad day for posting.
True animal lovers consider humans and artifacts unnatural.
Must be hard to get a good night's sleep with all that light pollution where you are...:-)
Sorry to disagree - I'm not an environmentalist, but it does bother me that I can't see stars at night. If that makes me a "sob sister" - so be it.
Maybe you are lucky enough to live somewhere where it still gets dark at night. (so far) Or maybe you never bother to look up to enjoy the night sky - but some of us wish that we could once again do so.
LOL
Get out of the city and move to a civilized place
I've never met a POS with a sense of humor yet... :)
Would you be able to recognize one? You're no Rodney Daingerfield yourself.
Excessive lighting is a big issue and one being taken up by elected bodies all over the country.
As the story, if you had read it, noted, the original request to explore the consequences came from astronomers, who have been dealing with the decline of night viewing for a couple of decades.
I used to sit in my backyard and look for all kinds of oddities in the sky until an evangelist church bought a nearby supermarket and put up a brightly illuminated 40-foot sign that reads "Calvary."
Hey, now we can party out there without lights? But no studying science from my backyard anymore.
One funny and useful consequence of our lightning paranoia: Suburban burglary is a declining field. It's not uncommon for a criminal to set off a series of motion-detector lights on his approach or escape.
We are forced to do our astronomy over the internet since there is not much left of night sky. But, the population of earth is tending to run 24/7 anyway, including humans, so natural life is pretty much of historical interest anymore. Maybe they can capture some night and put it in a zoo so the kids can learn about it.
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