Goodnight Night

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today we travel to a future where darkness is a thing of the past. No more night, no more stars, no more deep inky black sky. What happens when we light everything up? Guests: Dr. John Barentine — director of public policy at the International Dark Sky Association Rebecca Boyle — science journalist Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz — astronomer at the Adler Planetarium Dr. Sarah Pritchard — historian at Cornell University → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Special thanks to Thomas, Vera and Isaac Beckett who played the teacher and students in the intro this episode. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Find a promo code you heard on the episode. Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:02.0	Flash Forward is a show
0:04.0	A.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:10.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash forward is a show about the future. Every episode
0:16.4	we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario. We always start with a little field trip into the future to check out what is going on.
0:27.6	And then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:36.0	Got it? Great. This episode we are starting in the year 2044.
0:58.0	Next up we have Cynthia Saline presenting their project, reconstructing the history and future of the night sky. Cynthia, come on up.
1:02.0	Hello, thank you. My name is Cynthia Saline, and I would like to tell you a little bit about darkness.
1:09.0	I started this project because I was interested in space.
1:13.0	I would like to be an astronaut when I grow up and explore the universe.
1:17.6	When I was doing research about space, I learned that many past astronauts were inspired
1:22.0	by the night sky. This was at first confusing to me
1:25.2	because the night sky is not that interesting in my opinion. But then I learned that in the past
1:30.7	you used to be able to look up in the night and see stars.
1:35.0	Today when we look up we can only see the moon in the constellation satellites.
1:40.0	They may seem like stars, but they're not.
1:44.0	In my research, I also found photographs of what the night sky used to look like.
1:49.0	Here's one of them.
1:50.0	This is from the Grand Canyon, and this isn't a manipulated image.
1:54.4	This is what it really looks like.
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