My Son the Krikkiter
Writing this from the shores of Lake Huron. It’s a clear night, and while we’re very far from the wilderness, we’re also not exactly near a big city. Which means you can walk along the beach at night and actually see stars, things we only see in Brooklyn if there’s a total power blackout.
Raising a child amid such egregious light pollution may be a form of abuse. I just hope when he grows up, he doesn’t decide to build an army of white robots and try to destroy the universe.
For the high point of the Perseid meteor shower, I went to Mont Megantic, in the SE corner of Quebec, near the borders with Maine and Vermont. To preserve a view of the night sky, there is “The Mt. Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve cover[ing] an area of almost 5,500 km2. It is centered on the Observatory within the provincial park and has a radius of 50 km.”
We hardly ever see the stars in Montreal.
— M. Grégoire · Aug 20, 03:25 PM · #