**Update: Slashdot posted an article about this picture. I'll post a screenshot of the traffic graph later this week. Yikes! In the meantime, spread the word on Digg and add your light pollution images to the group.**
2009 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo's observations of Venus, Saturn and Jupiter published in Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger). To improve scientific literacy, the NOAO and NASA are promoting dark sky initiatives in 2009 to draw attention to the problem of light pollution which obscures nearly all night sky colors and objects except for the moon and a few bright stars and planets.
In honor and support of the dark sky initiatives I have created a "Flat Earth society" group for the pictorial preservation and documentation of non-natural illumination of urban and suburban environs. Anyone may join and add images to the group: The Illuminati Project - Red Skies at Night
By showcasing the beauty of light pollution I hope our collective efforts will raise awareness and educate fellow Earthmates to lower energy consumption and become more curious about the world outside. Please snap a photo, then turn off the lights.
Additional info:
www.astronomy2009.org/
www.darkskiesawareness.org/
www.darksky.org
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Light_Pollution
jesse1715301, Jeff Pang, rcvernors, melcir.meri, and 59 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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M.Peinado 43 months ago | reply
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Visto en el grupo"Views: 5000" (Yo también quiero esto)
Pixter007 [deleted] 36 months ago | reply
Very surreal. Looks like an alien landscape.
(Daithi@Ireland ) [deleted] 36 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr's Global Village , and we'd love to have this added to the group!
wow! Love to see you all at Flickr's Global Village
mlhradio 17 months ago | reply
Congratulations on receiving more than 25,000 views -- that's quite impressive! Now that you've reached this milestone, you might want to consider graduating this photograph from the 'Views: 10000' group to the 'Views: 25,000' group, which can be found here: www.flickr.com/groups/views25000/
Once again, congratulations and hopefully your photos will receive many more views in the future! Reminder: Photos should only be in one 'Views:xx' group at a time. (This is an automatic message posted to all items in the 'Views: 10000' group that receive more than 25,000 views. There is no need to reply to this message.)