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minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 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-up3·2 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-up1·2 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.
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.