seeing blue.....

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Yes, quite often. I imagine them being both awed and frightened, and making up stories to explain their feelings. I also see them learning to recognize the celestial patterns and learning to use them in different aspects of their lives.

Yes. I do. I imagine our ancestors, men and women, seeing patterns and shapes in the sky and making up the story of the year.

Yes. I do. I imagine our ancestors, men and women, seeing patterns and shapes in the sky and making up the story of the year.

It intrigues me, too. I’m on a dimly lit (in numerous ways) portion of US Virginia’s Blue Ridge at an elevation where, when it’s cold and little humidity, the ‘stars’ (including other suns, distant galaxies and neighboring planets) don’t even ‘twinkle.’ I envision riding our planet through space!

It’s obvious that ‘something’ had to be concocted to fulfill the curiosities of early humans, I’ll even give them points for imagination! ...but not anymore. There’s no excuse with all we’ve learned to cling to myths … it’s a disservice to our species. I’m thankful to be alive in a time & place that has allowed me to understand more about what’s out there than anyone before me…

I never really considered the effect of light pollution until I spent a month at a biology station in the Adirondack Mountains. It seemed that there were a dozen times as many stars as I could see back home (You could even find satellites and follow them across the sky!). I envy folks who live in rural parts of the western states for this....If I was living in the times of early man, the night sky would scare me to death; every star would look like the reflected eyes of a predator!