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Rick Law:

--- Quote from: penfold on May 20, 2021, 09:45:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: Rick Law on May 20, 2021, 09:29:14 pm ---If technology-capable intelligent life is indeed as rare as we think, we are what made earth special.  At least that is what current evidence is pointing.  Without us, earth will be merely another planet with biologicals like plenty of other rocks floating in space are.

So, I suppose, lighting up for us to be safer is not a bad thing, advertisements not withstanding.

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Ahh, but what makes humans especially interesting is that we are one of the extraordinarily few species that go to extraordinary lengths to protect other species.

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That is where "intelligence" come in, I suppose.  We use our intelligence to access what is harmful to us.  With that analysis, we use our technology-intelligence to create tools to foster some species, and tools to exterminate others.  We are just part of nature, and so we do what nature requires of us.  Why benefits to human should come first?  Without human, this planet would be adding very little to the universe at-large.  There are billions of planet that can sustain life (if current thinking is right), but very few with intelligent technology capable life.

I am on both sides of this light pollution issue,

I used to live in the boonies.  I enjoyed observing the night sky with my electronically controlled 90mm reflector.  In the last 15 years or so, instead of just woods and morning smell of farm (fertilizers), it is now citified - the city moved into what was my boonies.  I can't look in any direction without street lights, cars, and annoying traffic shaking the grounds (de-stabilizing my scope).  My reflector scope has not been out of the box for over a decade now.

Price we pay for progress.  Lights, lights, and more damn lights -- but thankful I haven't yet run into my third deer in the last decade.  So only two cars destroyed.

Best for us to do is "do the least harm" - where it is not necessary (such as advertisement lighting), why harm more.  Where is is necessary, well, may be better to blind the birds than to weep over a family of four in the car that hit the tree.
David Hess:

--- Quote from: penfold on May 20, 2021, 09:45:25 pm ---Ahh, but what makes humans especially interesting is that we are one of the extraordinarily few species that go to extraordinary lengths to protect other species.
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Grains have domesticated the local tool using hominid to care for them and extend their domain.  Grains rule the Earth.
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