Re: [pct-l] Re: [CDT-L] Fw: Earthlights from Space Station

This exchange brought back memories from one of my journal entries on the 
AT...

"At one point, we watched a helicopter go by with a huge bucket underneath. 
Sure enough, as we went to a lookout for sunset, we could see smoke from 
forest fires in the distance. Now, as I write this journal entry, a bat is 
flitting overhead and I can see a ring of fire looking like jewels on a far 
off hill. As I walked back to my tent, and even from in my tent, I am 
reminded that even though I am carrying everything I need on my back, this 
is no wilderness experience. In almost every direction I look, I can see the 
electric lights of civilization. All at once, they are both pretty and 
annoying. They are necessary and I would not want to do without them when I 
am home, but as I sit here writing with my headlamp, I wish they were not 
visible beyond their useful range. "

It does make me want to plan a trip to northern Canada, Greenland, or even 
non-coastal (desert) northern Africa or Antarctica.  Or go back to Nepal - 
the towns in the Himalayas often had only a couple of hours electricity a 
day - if that.  Stargazing there was fantastic.

Sigh...

Mara

P.S.  Full text of this entry (and the rest of the journal) at:

http://friends.backcountry.net/m_factor/april1.html#5


>From: Richard Calliger <calliger@infolane.com>
>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:40:10 -0800
>
> >Karen Elder wrote:
> >
> >> ...It is an incredible sight.
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
> >>
>At 08:45 AM 12/21/00 -0700, James Lofton wrote:
> >Hi Karen, all,
> >
> >Not to be picking at you.., but what is cool to some is a VERY disgusting
> >sight to others. ...
>
>You had to get me started, eh:-)) oh boy- here goes:
>
>One person's "waste" is someone else's security and progress!...
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