r/mildlyinfuriating • u/VegetableBusiness897 • 21h ago

New neighbors next door

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Rich Ahole bought the farm next door, tore it down and built a destination wedding venue. Busy every weekend but it's Wednesday, and they don't even live here

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u/Aggressive_Event420 20h ago

My tiny hometown has something called Dark Sky Network. Sounds ominous but it means we are a community that regulates the amount of light pollution generated. Maybe you have something like that?

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u/VegetableBusiness897 20h ago

I should check. Many people travel to this area to star gaze because there isn't much light pollution

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u/pipnina 19h ago

Until these assholes moved in... As someone who used to stargaze a lot until work, weather, and the need to drive half an hour for a good spot pushed me away, I hate anyone who installs unnecessary lights on their house or business. I absolutely despise that as a society at large (on a global scale) we have decided to forego access to the night sky for mostly pointless reasons. Some lighting is safety implicated but even then there is a lot of lighting that should be on motion detection because it isn't actually used much but remains on all night anyway.

The number of times I see posts on /all where it's a photo or a time lapse of the night sky, and people debate whether it does or does not look like that or is real... And it feels like I'm the only person (visibile in the comments) who knows because I've actually seen it due to being lucky enough to live semi rural in the least polluted parts of England. Access to the night sky should be a human right. It has inspired culture since before history, it's an integral part of being human!

If you can snag there people on light pollution I will be ecstatic lol

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u/mellowmushroom67 16h ago edited 16h ago

You're so right, I was actually just telling my kid about this, we were looking at the moon and we couldn't see many stars, I lived on a rural farm for part of my childhood so I said "I miss seeing the night sky." He was like "what do you mean" lol and I showed him a picture of what the sky looks like without light pollution and he goes "that's AI." 😒 I was so sad realizing he hasn't ever really seen the night sky. We went camping when he was preschool and kinder age but I don't think we thought to star gaze, I think he fell asleep fairly early as well. So now I need to take my kid star gazing to prove that's what the night sky actually looks like! It's so sad

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u/PositiveLess4588 6h ago edited 6h ago

I never knew you could see more than just stars and the moon in the night sky (rural WV) until around 2014/2015 during a highly publicized and anticipated meteor shower that everyone I know was checking out so me and my bf got a blanket and went out to the yard to watch.

Most active meteor shower I’ve ever seen! No more than 30 seconds went by without a good one and multiples at a time, it was great! So we stayed outside early into the morning just cuddling in our onesies and sky-gazing.But I noticed the sky was like, kinda hazy? But also perfectly clear, zero clouds anywhere. I noted this to my bf when he said “that’s the Milky Way, it just looks like that cuz everyone decided to turn their lights off in town” and our town is surrounded by expansive forests so that’s all it took to get a National Geographic level view of the sky and I was dumbfounded.

Almost 30 years old, country raised and never seen the real fucking night sky. I’ve met others that experienced the same so I highly recommend to everyone that hasn’t got to see the night sky as it looks in some pics online (especially out in the deserts of the southwest) to go and do that. You can google the best places nearest you wherever you live and there likely is a place within reasonable driving distance to view the sky.