Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution (www.space.com)

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[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"simple" = get every light in a city to blink at the same time at the same rate.

[-] SirHery@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lol i currently have "distributed systems" as a uni class. Yeah just about gives me enough understanding of much of a pain this would be. Apart from the amount of money this would cost.

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