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tdubhro1 | 2 years ago

Great idea and demo but tough to see many municipalities refitting their street lighting to keep astronomers happy. Might be easier to persuade them to just turn streetlights off completely for a few hours a night, at least then there’s some cost saving.

Maybe in the future when we all have smart glasses with night vision mode and self driving cars we’ll look back at citywide streetlights as a quaint and inefficient solution

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nightowl_games|2 years ago

> we all

A common mistake technologists make is to conflate the technologically illiterate with the entirety of the population. I can't overstate how technologically stratified we are and I believe his trend will only worsen. As technology advances, we will see the literate move forward and the majority stay relatively still. We will only see further stratification. We must assimilate this truth into our strategy.