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A new atlas has illustrated that 80% of North Americans are prevented from seeing the Milky Way's bulge by light pollution:
The luminous glow of light pollution prevents nearly 80 percent of people in North America from seeing the Milky Way in the night sky. That's according to a new atlas of artificial night sky brightness that found our home galaxy is now hidden from more than one-third of humanity.
While there are countries were the majority of people still live under pristine, ink-black sky conditions — places such as Chad, Central African Republic and Madagascar — more than 99 percent of the people living in the U.S. and Europe look up and see light-polluted skies.
The country with the worst light-pollution is Singapore, where researchers found that "the entire population lives under skies so bright that the eye cannot fully dark-adapt to night vision." Other countries with large percentages of people living under skies this bright include Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness (open, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600377)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2016, @04:20AM
When people see the images on WHATSPOPULAR they mostly are amazed and upvotelike it.
Amazing graphics!! Is that a new game? Which app do I download?? +like +like +like
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 11 2016, @08:23AM
Yeah, this "outside" game has really great graphics; you cannot even discern the pixels. And it's full immersive 3D! Also the sound dynamics is incredible (although sometimes they do things a bit too loud, you also can overdo realism). And it has even force feedback!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2016, @08:45AM
The mechanics are kinda wonkie, like the developers threw the shit together at the last moment. Leveling is haphazard and grindy, and I'm pretty certain some people have cheat codes ("there's no way you became a level 67 guild master with only two hours in").
I could do without the smell-o vision as well.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2016, @09:52AM
Yeah, this "outside" game has really great graphics; you cannot even discern the pixels
Pfff... You can tell it's shopped. Everything smoothed out and blurred and I would know because I've seen quite some 'shops in my time...
Now where did I leave my glasses?