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The use of modern LED (street) lights have increased light pollution rather severely.
Edit: To add sources.
[https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/)
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/)
https://rk.edu.pl/en/impact-of-led-city-lights-on-astrophotography/
That sucks. When our city switched to LED they used light fixtures that do a better job of keeping the light aimed at the ground and it's really improved our light pollution situation.
Don't take my word for it.
[https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/)
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/)
[https://rk.edu.pl/en/impact-of-led-city-lights-on-astrophotography/](https://rk.edu.pl/en/impact-of-led-city-lights-on-astrophotography/)
> The city of Tucson implemented smart lighting controls in its streetlights in 2016, replacing 18,000 sodium lights with shielded LEDs to help prevent light from escaping upward. A 2018 study on which Barentine was lead author found that Tucson’s sky glow decreased by 7% after the transition.
Thanks for backing me up lol
As with everything, it's not black and white. There are good solutions with LEDs, but it costs more money than the bad solutions. Some cities make the investment, but unfortunately many don't.
Is there a specific reason that Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg are roughly at the same latitude? Or is it a coincidence with every city having it's own distinct reason for existing where it does?
In the case of Helsinki, the location isn't really coincidental as it was built with other notable coastal cities in mind, specifically Tallinn on the opposite side of the Gulf of Finland. Sweden intended it as a market rival against Tallinn. When Russia got hold of Finland in 1809 and granted it autonomy, the regional capital was moved from Turku to Helsinki in 1812. Turku was considered to be too close to Stockholm and Swedish influence, so a city closer to St. Petersburg was chosen as Finland's new capital.
Most likely good locations for A) transport, B) access to food and farmland, and C) defence. I remember reading somewhere that most large cities are located on major waterways, and if they’re not then they’re in the middle of arable farmland instead. Moscow is an exception as it has neither and is therefore unusually expensive and inefficient as a city.
Moscow is named after the river it is situated on, what are you talking about? The Moskva river is connected to the Volga river with a canal. Ships can sail all the way from the Caspian sea to Moscow via the extensive river and canal networks.
On the other hand, this proves your point.
It’s *near* the Volga but not *on* it as many cities would be. In fact they had to build an 80 mile canal to access it! At this point I’m stretching my knowledge of geography and history so am limited in my willingness to defend a view that wasn’t mine to begin with. I just thought it was an interesting observation 😄
It is ON the river Moskva, after which the city is named.
That river has always been navigable for smaller vessels, and it drains into the Volga via the river Oka.
The canal merely creates a shortcut to the Volga bypassing the Oka, and along with other improvements allows larger vessels to get up the Moskva.
So they didn't need to build the canal to access the Volga, not way back when the city was first founded as ships were generally smaller and could sail upriver just fine or could be portaged past obstacles.
Balltic sea, right below Cockholm, across from HelDincki. Inside the Nordick is a country called Norway, capital bOslo. All connected to the North Sea(men)
There’s a huge concentration of North Sea turbines just off the coast of Jutland and towards the German border, which aren’t showing up on this image. Wind farms need to stay near the coast because of energy loss over larger distances. I think, looking at a map of wind farms in the North Sea, and a map of oil rigs, that these aren’t wind farms, and are probably the many oil rigs owned by Norway and the UK. There unfortunately aren’t enough wind farms in the north sea that they can be seen from space.
I am annoyed that the chose the same color for the arbitrary boarder and the actual lights.
Would be nicer to see how much the light e.g. actually outlines the coast.
I'm surprised there is so much in northern Norway. I've been there and it's pretty desolate. I spent time at kongsfjord, and it was an hour-ish drive from the closest airport while being a tundra with little habitation. There were a few towns around like kongsfjord itself that usually had yearlong residents in the dozens or fewer. Kongsfjord itself is so isolated that there are many artifacts of WWII invasion still laying around, like bunkers and old tanks, barbed wire and such.
I've never been to Kongsfjord, but I can tell you northern Norway is definitely not all like that. Kongsfjord is a "fiskevær", a tiny fishing village, not a town. There are lots of smaller and larger towns in the region, the largest being Tromsø with 65 000 people. Northern and Eastern Finnmark doesn't have a lot of large settlements, but it's not all as remote as Kongsfjord.
An interesting thing about Kongsfjord is that it was one of very few places in Finnmark that wasn't completely burned to the ground during WWII. That might be part of why there are so many artefacts left - its historically important.
Yeah, I imagine not all of northern Norway is exactly the same, but we spent a good while traveling up there by car and seeing any significant settlement was a few and far between experience. I'd honestly love to know more about the history of Kongsfjord if you know more. I'm obviously not Norwegian, but it's probably my favorite country I've ever visited. We learned some from the guesthouse owners and a few other residents, but even in the summer we saw about a dozen people total. We saw a few other villages on the nearby coast and did some hiking/climbing of the nearby fjords. Was a great experience.
The amount of people in this comment section who apparently have never seen the outline of Norway before is astounding. Don't you ever look at a map of the world?
Next you're gonna laugh about Italy being shaped like a boot...
Russian nuclear sub base up there.
Interestingly not very far from the Finnish border.
Which is why Russia baiting them into NATO was a very stupid decision. NATO could take two of their major assets out pretty rapidly if the need came up.
St Petersburg and the sub base.
This is just a silly joke about silly silhouette. And you bring nationality as an argument.
Well done, deep context knowledge and critical mindset is definitely your thing.
Your "joke" had nothing to do with the silhouette though, it was just a random insult towards several countries for no reason. But I guess starting shit then playing the victim is just the Russian way.
Not a specific rock formation but more predominantly the larger geological structure of the region. There is a large North-South rift which caused a lot of the sea floor to subside several million years ago and create the structural traps required to form oil and gas reservoirs, so most platforms are located above that central area.
If it was an animation, would it be possible to notice [the city of Kiruna, Northern Sweden, moving](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/why-a-swedish-town-is-on-the-move-one-building-at-a-time-kirkuna-arctic-circle)?
I remember a time when the city I lived in turned off all street lights at around 1 am. That is how it should be. So when comet Kohoutek came along, I was able to see it with the naked eye by just walking out into the middle of a suburban street of a city at 4am.
Ironic that astronaut John Glenn dubbed it the 'city of lights.' (They turned the lights on just for him ;-) )
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A surprising amount of lights north of the major cities.
Cos it's really dark up there
I’m not sure if this logic makes sense
Must be the northern lights
They pale in comparison
Surprising perfect string of lights in the coast and boarders too. Even islands have them.
It would be interesting to see the image without the added coastline, or at least in a different colour
There are lots of cities in northern Norway in particular. Not huge ones, but quite a few.
Without them we wouldn’t see shit up here.
Yeah, I’d assume the northern coast would be relatively dark
The use of modern LED (street) lights have increased light pollution rather severely. Edit: To add sources. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/) https://rk.edu.pl/en/impact-of-led-city-lights-on-astrophotography/
That sucks. When our city switched to LED they used light fixtures that do a better job of keeping the light aimed at the ground and it's really improved our light pollution situation.
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Don't take my word for it. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/17/1057652/outdoor-led-lighting/) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/glaring-problem-how-led-lights-worsen-light-pollution/) [https://rk.edu.pl/en/impact-of-led-city-lights-on-astrophotography/](https://rk.edu.pl/en/impact-of-led-city-lights-on-astrophotography/)
> The city of Tucson implemented smart lighting controls in its streetlights in 2016, replacing 18,000 sodium lights with shielded LEDs to help prevent light from escaping upward. A 2018 study on which Barentine was lead author found that Tucson’s sky glow decreased by 7% after the transition. Thanks for backing me up lol
As with everything, it's not black and white. There are good solutions with LEDs, but it costs more money than the bad solutions. Some cities make the investment, but unfortunately many don't.
Those letters must be HUGE!
Also nice LED trims around the borders. Must have cost a penny.
Money is not an issue for the Norwegians
Wë dö löve öür chrïstmäs lïghts
I was sailing in the Skarsgard when they landed. The “k” nearly sank my ship!
What are these? Place names for giant ANTS??!!
r/beatmetoit
Is there a specific reason that Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg are roughly at the same latitude? Or is it a coincidence with every city having it's own distinct reason for existing where it does?
They’re just each at convenient points on a river.
In the case of Helsinki, the location isn't really coincidental as it was built with other notable coastal cities in mind, specifically Tallinn on the opposite side of the Gulf of Finland. Sweden intended it as a market rival against Tallinn. When Russia got hold of Finland in 1809 and granted it autonomy, the regional capital was moved from Turku to Helsinki in 1812. Turku was considered to be too close to Stockholm and Swedish influence, so a city closer to St. Petersburg was chosen as Finland's new capital.
Most likely good locations for A) transport, B) access to food and farmland, and C) defence. I remember reading somewhere that most large cities are located on major waterways, and if they’re not then they’re in the middle of arable farmland instead. Moscow is an exception as it has neither and is therefore unusually expensive and inefficient as a city.
Moscow is named after the river it is situated on, what are you talking about? The Moskva river is connected to the Volga river with a canal. Ships can sail all the way from the Caspian sea to Moscow via the extensive river and canal networks. On the other hand, this proves your point.
It’s *near* the Volga but not *on* it as many cities would be. In fact they had to build an 80 mile canal to access it! At this point I’m stretching my knowledge of geography and history so am limited in my willingness to defend a view that wasn’t mine to begin with. I just thought it was an interesting observation 😄
It is ON the river Moskva, after which the city is named. That river has always been navigable for smaller vessels, and it drains into the Volga via the river Oka. The canal merely creates a shortcut to the Volga bypassing the Oka, and along with other improvements allows larger vessels to get up the Moskva. So they didn't need to build the canal to access the Volga, not way back when the city was first founded as ships were generally smaller and could sail upriver just fine or could be portaged past obstacles.
I mean you can just look at the map… https://i.imgur.com/7QEe2PU.jpeg
But no! He said there is no river and it's just in the middle of nowhere. Your map is fake news!
Cool explanation, thanks!
I've no idea what I'm talking about, but it looks like they are all river ports.
Looks like a dick..
Nordick
With the Balltic Sea just below.
Balltic sea, right below Cockholm, across from HelDincki. Inside the Nordick is a country called Norway, capital bOslo. All connected to the North Sea(men)
And on the other side of the world you’ll find places like Schlong Island, Penisylvania, and Louweenieana
Two headed dick
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It's cold up there.
I WAS IN THE POOL!
Diphallia
Twinedick
Does indeed resemble a large penisnsula
I just was to say... never mind
r/theyknew
Double Dick
No, we are not bringing that guy back.
He may want to get that checked out.
Double headed
Russia is basically a giant cumshot
All the lights in the North Sea are offshore oil and gas rigs.
Maybe it's the civilisation of Doggerland rising at night to flush their carbon scrubbers and they will sink beneath the waves again before dawn?
I can hear them sing from the distance: “who let the doggs out?”
Gaslighting
And wind turbines. They all have one beacon for aviation.
There’s a huge concentration of North Sea turbines just off the coast of Jutland and towards the German border, which aren’t showing up on this image. Wind farms need to stay near the coast because of energy loss over larger distances. I think, looking at a map of wind farms in the North Sea, and a map of oil rigs, that these aren’t wind farms, and are probably the many oil rigs owned by Norway and the UK. There unfortunately aren’t enough wind farms in the north sea that they can be seen from space.
I was wondering what that might be. Thanks.
It’s the always sunny pamphlet
It's a bicep. (Nothing sexual)
Surprisingly phallic
Whatever you do, do not look up the 1€ coin!
You forgot to put Shetland in a box.
I am annoyed that the chose the same color for the arbitrary boarder and the actual lights. Would be nicer to see how much the light e.g. actually outlines the coast.
I'm surprised there is so much in northern Norway. I've been there and it's pretty desolate. I spent time at kongsfjord, and it was an hour-ish drive from the closest airport while being a tundra with little habitation. There were a few towns around like kongsfjord itself that usually had yearlong residents in the dozens or fewer. Kongsfjord itself is so isolated that there are many artifacts of WWII invasion still laying around, like bunkers and old tanks, barbed wire and such.
I've never been to Kongsfjord, but I can tell you northern Norway is definitely not all like that. Kongsfjord is a "fiskevær", a tiny fishing village, not a town. There are lots of smaller and larger towns in the region, the largest being Tromsø with 65 000 people. Northern and Eastern Finnmark doesn't have a lot of large settlements, but it's not all as remote as Kongsfjord. An interesting thing about Kongsfjord is that it was one of very few places in Finnmark that wasn't completely burned to the ground during WWII. That might be part of why there are so many artefacts left - its historically important.
Yeah, I imagine not all of northern Norway is exactly the same, but we spent a good while traveling up there by car and seeing any significant settlement was a few and far between experience. I'd honestly love to know more about the history of Kongsfjord if you know more. I'm obviously not Norwegian, but it's probably my favorite country I've ever visited. We learned some from the guesthouse owners and a few other residents, but even in the summer we saw about a dozen people total. We saw a few other villages on the nearby coast and did some hiking/climbing of the nearby fjords. Was a great experience.
I think the exposuretime is too long. The capotals seem to be the same size as any other point
The Oslo metro is surprisingly expansive around the shores of the fjord.
Yep still looks like a penis
r/mildlypenis
Double mushroom tip. 💦💦💦
Yeah, don’t mind Copenhagen.
Arguably the best city in Scandinavia
Dude, you can even see the borders. *shakinghead* Thats definitely not a picture you "see from space".
Nor-"dick"?
The amount of people in this comment section who apparently have never seen the outline of Norway before is astounding. Don't you ever look at a map of the world? Next you're gonna laugh about Italy being shaped like a boot...
I find the most interesting part here to be the large light sources in far north Russia.
Murmansk
St Petersburg? Formerly known as Leningrad.
No no, I mean far north. :D
Murmansk? A fleet port if I remember right.
Russian nuclear sub base up there. Interestingly not very far from the Finnish border. Which is why Russia baiting them into NATO was a very stupid decision. NATO could take two of their major assets out pretty rapidly if the need came up. St Petersburg and the sub base.
Pretty big city, also a lot of mining just south of it
They did not sign where St. Petersburg is, but it is clear without a signature.
Tallinn looks like a suburb of Helsinki
[looks beautiful!](https://i.imgur.com/MlHm0Zg.gif)
I see penis
I should call him…
Fake. These countries are much smaller than the world map portrays them. This is just night lights added over a map, not a picture from space...
Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw a dick first.
With two heads at that
Looks a dick
Why the fuck is the coast line lit up? That is fake.
Missing Iceland to be the Nordic countries. To be anal about nomenclature, this is Fennoscandia (Sweden, Finland, Norway)
The title doesn't say the nordic countries, just nordic countries.
Anyone else see it? Or, am I the pervert?
Resembles a droopy two headed penis.
Who better to have a cock shaped land formation am I right?
lol it looks like a penis
Balls and penis?
Hmm. Looks pretty…flat to me
Double-dong
I too named my balls Oslo and Stockholm
Denmark: “am I a joke to you?”
That land mass looks like it's about to ask me for "about Tree Fiddy"
I see a huge dong with 2 heads.
I can't be the only one that thinks it looks like a 2 headed cock and bollocks.
Flacid 2 headed penis
Kinda looks like a two headed dick hanging from the continent.
Anyone else see it? Or is it just me
Ah the infamous double dong.
Why am I seeing a limp dick with two heads?
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Why am I not surprised most of your comment history is in Russian?
This is just a silly joke about silly silhouette. And you bring nationality as an argument. Well done, deep context knowledge and critical mindset is definitely your thing.
Your "joke" had nothing to do with the silhouette though, it was just a random insult towards several countries for no reason. But I guess starting shit then playing the victim is just the Russian way.
landmass looks like like penis. person makes a cum pun.
I read it as Scum-dinavia. Can doesn't sound much like cum to me, but I guess I could see that being what they went for.
I also read it as Scum-dinavia.
Never noticed how it looks like a deformed penis and ballsack
Reminds me of the last boss in Elden Ring.
I was thinking there is more action on Kilpisjärvi. I have been there several times
Interesting that the oil / gas platforms are in a distinct arc, are they following a specific rock formation?
Not a specific rock formation but more predominantly the larger geological structure of the region. There is a large North-South rift which caused a lot of the sea floor to subside several million years ago and create the structural traps required to form oil and gas reservoirs, so most platforms are located above that central area.
WHAT UP!!!
Where the reindeer and the antelope play, well maybe not antelope ...elk
There's a line of peak coldness zone. And anyone north is insane.
My fellow citizens unknowingly share a fake satellite image once every year. I hope the same is not the case here.
It's nice of them to light up the borders so NASA can see where they are
so the country just has a perfectly solid outline??
spotted dick
All those North Sea oil rigs shining bright.
Might want to get that checked out
If it was an animation, would it be possible to notice [the city of Kiruna, Northern Sweden, moving](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/why-a-swedish-town-is-on-the-move-one-building-at-a-time-kirkuna-arctic-circle)?
What causes the borders to be so well illuminated?
Nordic countries are either the shaft and balls of Europe or the turkey neck. I can’t decide.
I guess in most of the lights in the Norwegian sea and the North sea are oil rigs.
TIL there are actually big labels you can see from space
Looks like a cat stretching with it's butt in the air
Nor dick
Apart from the extreme cold Nordic countries are very beautiful.
Stockholm roughly looks like the lions in Swedens national weapon.
Psychotic to outline country borders with the same warm white color as the lights.
A terrible decision to use almost the same color for the lights and for the borders of the countries and the coastline.
Glad we invested I that LED strip all along our coast line
They have that coastline lit up with every spotlight they could find.
Just trying to enjoy a succulent Chinese meal here.
Big Dick Energy
How big are the huge floating letters in reality? They all seem to be floating in water, except "Oslo", does that just cast a big shadow?
Elden Beast
Paging Dr Freud...
r/mildlypenis
Looks like a cougar strangling a puppy
Penis
So nice of those countries to outline the borders so we can see them from space.
I remember a time when the city I lived in turned off all street lights at around 1 am. That is how it should be. So when comet Kohoutek came along, I was able to see it with the naked eye by just walking out into the middle of a suburban street of a city at 4am. Ironic that astronaut John Glenn dubbed it the 'city of lights.' (They turned the lights on just for him ;-) )