Re: UK : Essex : Youths set trap and attempt robbery of cyclist.

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I've not been to Morocco, but partner has, and said nothing of its skies
there. Went eclipse chasing to Libya earlier this year and saw little.


My son spent two weeks in the Sinai Desert in July - roughing it - he was
doing conservation work with bats, which involved much night-time walking
through the desert. He loved it and said the skies were astounding without
the light pollution we have over here.

Cheers, helen s

I lived in the Sultanate of Oman for over 10 years and it was fantastic when
I was out into remote areas, at night, just to lay on the ground and look at
the stars. You can then understand why "The Milky Way" is so called. It is
as though you can almost touch them. It is no surprise to me that so much
mythology is tied up with constellations. Out there the whole night sky was
seemingly full of groups of stars creating shapes in the sky.

Light pollution is terrible in two ways , the light pollution itself where a
huge amount of artificial glare is thrown up into the sky and the huge
amount of energy wasted in producing light where it is not needed.

Certainly as a cyclist I prefer to be on an unlit road at night where my
lights make a positive statement as opposed to cycling in most urban areas
where the glare is so much as to disguise my illuminated presence.

The thuggery goes on regardless of lights or no lights. Lack of proper
policing and totally ineffective sentencing is the real problem here.

Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.
www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk


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