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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. What modern people conveniently forget
Fri Apr 19, 2019, 09:31 AM
Apr 2019

that up until the coming of electric lights, even large cities were very dark at night. People had phenomenally clear skies and a good look at the stars year round.

And of course they weren't stupid. They simply lived in a different time. But no one should be even remotely surprised that they had a good knowledge of basic astronomy, even if they didn't fully understand those lights in the sky were a lot like our own sun, only a lot farther away.

The average American, the average European, the average person almost everywhere on this planet these days has never seen a truly dark sky

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