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minus-squareboydster@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoA doubling is still a big deal, though. You made a difference! Imagine if that were to keep up throughout the neighborhood.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoIt’s a far cry from when I lived in the woods and could walk around on a dark night just from the light of fireflies.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoWhen I was a child in the 70s we’d visit my great-grandparents in Indianapolis and the lightning bugs were like that. Image, a heavily polluted, major metro area had more lightning bugs than anywhere I’ve seen since.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI had a sergeant who sneaked up on some troopies based on the light from the unshielded radium pips on someone’s wristwatch. (Why yes. He was 22me regiment; why do you ask?) But, point is, you didn’t take a flashlight because the light was enough, and your eyes adjusted and made it enough, because it was enough. Anyway, 10 years of doubling is 1000x. 6ooo fireflies would be cool.
A doubling is still a big deal, though. You made a difference! Imagine if that were to keep up throughout the neighborhood.
It’s a far cry from when I lived in the woods and could walk around on a dark night just from the light of fireflies.
When I was a child in the 70s we’d visit my great-grandparents in Indianapolis and the lightning bugs were like that. Image, a heavily polluted, major metro area had more lightning bugs than anywhere I’ve seen since.
I had a sergeant who sneaked up on some troopies based on the light from the unshielded radium pips on someone’s wristwatch.
(Why yes. He was 22me regiment; why do you ask?)
But, point is, you didn’t take a flashlight because the light was enough, and your eyes adjusted and made it enough, because it was enough.
Anyway, 10 years of doubling is 1000x. 6ooo fireflies would be cool.