Fireflies - Page 3

Aliantha · 07-15-2014, 12:10 AM

There have been plenty of those consumed by me.

Sundae · 07-15-2014, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

I read somewhere that only one in five people have seen the Milky Way. It's pretty hard to see from the city.

Someone (Limey?) needs to point it out to me one day. I've been in plenty of places away from light pollution and have still never seen it.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It's OK as long as you eat them.

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

There have been plenty of those consumed by me.

... well I guess in a country where people eat witchetty grubs...

glatt · 07-15-2014, 09:16 AM

If you have seen any star ever, you have seen part of the Milky Way. When people refer to the Milky Way in the sky, they are just talking about an area where the stars are thicker and take on a cloudy appearance. But it's all the Milky Way. You need a really dark sky to see anything that's not part of the Milky Way.

limey · 07-15-2014, 09:42 AM

We has that. Sometimes.

Gravdigr · 07-15-2014, 01:06 PM

Ginandwhatnow?

Aliantha · 07-15-2014, 05:04 PM

I have seen some awesome stary skies from the outback. Unbelievable.

monster · 07-15-2014, 08:31 PM

The sky in the wilderness of UP Michigan is much different from here in Ann Arbor. Which in turn is very different from that in Birmingham UK. incredible. and always shooting stars, even when there isn't supposed to be a shower you will see the odd one. They created a Dark Sky Park fairly recently, right where the two peninsulas meet

http://www.emmetcounty.org/darkskypark/

monster · 07-15-2014, 08:32 PM

but we get plenty of fireflies here in the city. never saw one before I moved to the US though

Aliantha · 07-16-2014, 12:17 AM

When you go out west here in Oz, in the winter during the dry months, the sky is amazing. It's so clear that you can see satellites moving across the sky, and not just the odd one. It is one of the things I will always love about this country, although I suppose you would get the same effect in sparsely populated areas all over the world, so it's not just us, but still, I think it's something pretty special to be laying on your back in the middle of the desert, looking up into space through a sky so vast. It's humbling.

I would have put all this in my previous post, but I was on my phone.

glatt · 07-16-2014, 07:35 AM

It's hard to put into words how awesome a starry sky is in a rural dry area. Especially at high altitude.

Living in the city, you forget there are stars.

My county has recently put in ultra bright streetlights. I hate them.

Undertoad · 07-18-2014, 08:53 AM

I thought I was being respectful!! Naw it's all good

07-15-2014, 12:10 AM	#1
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	There have been plenty of those consumed by me. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

07-15-2014, 09:42 AM	#4
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	We has that. Sometimes. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

07-15-2014, 01:06 PM	#5
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07-15-2014, 05:04 PM	#6
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I have seen some awesome stary skies from the outback. Unbelievable. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

07-15-2014, 08:31 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	The sky in the wilderness of UP Michigan is much different from here in Ann Arbor. Which in turn is very different from that in Birmingham UK. incredible. and always shooting stars, even when there isn't supposed to be a shower you will see the odd one. They created a Dark Sky Park fairly recently, right where the two peninsulas meet http://www.emmetcounty.org/darkskypark/ __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-15-2014, 09:16 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	If you have seen any star ever, you have seen part of the Milky Way. When people refer to the Milky Way in the sky, they are just talking about an area where the stars are thicker and take on a cloudy appearance. But it's all the Milky Way. You need a really dark sky to see anything that's not part of the Milky Way.

07-15-2014, 08:32 PM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	but we get plenty of fireflies here in the city. never saw one before I moved to the US though __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-16-2014, 12:17 AM	#9
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	When you go out west here in Oz, in the winter during the dry months, the sky is amazing. It's so clear that you can see satellites moving across the sky, and not just the odd one. It is one of the things I will always love about this country, although I suppose you would get the same effect in sparsely populated areas all over the world, so it's not just us, but still, I think it's something pretty special to be laying on your back in the middle of the desert, looking up into space through a sky so vast. It's humbling. I would have put all this in my previous post, but I was on my phone. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

07-16-2014, 07:35 AM	#10
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It's hard to put into words how awesome a starry sky is in a rural dry area. Especially at high altitude. Living in the city, you forget there are stars. My county has recently put in ultra bright streetlights. I hate them.

07-18-2014, 08:53 AM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I thought I was being respectful!! Naw it's all good

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