It's a bit like that here in Walsall, seeing as I'm a stone's throw from the town centre... all that street lighting and the lights of local businesses (not to mention one of our nightclubs with a great big fuck-off searchlight on the roof - who are they trying to attract, sodding Batman or something?) So we don't tend to see many stars, only the brightest ones and the major planets. In fact, I only saw the Milky Way for the first time in my life on a family holiday to a remote spot in the Highlands a few years ago.
I once read of an incident that supposedly happened in New York, I think, during WWII. It may or may not be true, like most of these things, but apparently there was a massive city-wide power cut and a resulting blackout. Before long, the police became deluged by panicked citizens calling to report scary-looking lights in the sky; of course, they turned out to be the stars, which most people had presumably never seen due to all the lighting at night.
I once read of an incident that supposedly happened in New York, I think, during WWII. It may or may not be true, like most of these things, but apparently there was a massive city-wide power cut and a resulting blackout. Before long, the police became deluged by panicked citizens calling to report scary-looking lights in the sky; of course, they turned out to be the stars, which most people had presumably never seen due to all the lighting at night.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
