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Re:Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urba... by namuol on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:53PM (#38329147)
There’s engineering feasibility, and then there’s feasibility. Is it any less feasible to operate fewer or dimmer street lights? How about directing light more efficiently? This is a problem of bureaucratic and societal engineering.
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Re:Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urba... by calamari4065 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @06:35PM (#38339815)
I was really just exploring a hypothetical. This whole idea of synchronizing lights is pretty dumb. It won't work, and even if it did it's still a bad solution.

Better solution is less lights, or turn them off at night or any of the other solutions we've been talking about for 30 years. Remember when street lights were killing sea turtles?

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