Erosion

Nocturne

Vanessa Lowe

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Astronomer James Lowenthal gave a TEDx talk in 2016 warning that with the availability of cheap LED lights, light pollution around the world was about to get much worse very quickly. Little did he know that there was a much bigger threat to the night sky right around the corner.

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0:00.0	This episode of Nocturne is brought to you with support from the new podcast Poe, exclusively on Stitcher Premium.
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1:13.0	You're listening to Nocturne, I'm Vanessa Lowe.
1:44.0	This is the second wave, but this one's much longer I've lost count, and then they're evenly spaced in pairs.
1:52.0	I can't film it, there's nothing.
1:53.0	I have my telescope, but this is so crazy, this is not...
1:59.0	Okay, well I'm glad you guys are here, because if we were camping alone, and I saw this, I'd be like, that's that.
2:06.0	Bezos has believed his drone on me.
2:08.0	I mean, if you look over there, it's still coming.
2:10.0	This is a straight line.
2:12.0	I've lost counts long, long ago, like there's been a hundred.
2:16.0	This is not no normal phenomenon.
2:19.0	So we got there to the campground, and you could see Mars setting as the last of the sunset was fading out.
2:27.0	So we were getting ready for another evening of Star Gazing, and all of a sudden I hear, oh my god, what's that?
2:34.0	Look up, look up!
2:35.0	And there's this line of dozens and dozens of lights, and of straight line, all moving in unison across the sky.
2:49.0	I've been out at night camping a lot of times, never seen anything like this.
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