Today, more than 80 percent of Americans can't see the Milky Way from their home cities. But deep in rural Idaho, the skies are alive. WATCH NEXT: The Government Shutdown Is Turning Prison Guards Into Uber Drivers - bit.ly/2D19DcH
Im 64... and sadly I've watched the stars disappear... when I was a kid sleeping out watching the stars was soo much fun and finding a satellite was the prize :)
I lived in Modoc County, California where we had clean sky. I'd go to sleep looking at the Milky Way every night. Very few people have seen the sky, it's sad.
@@TriniLush7 The less interaction people have with the sky, it's more likely they will live a life focused on the material things in this world instead of seeing the Love of Creation right in front of their nose. Yes, there is an agenda to take that from humanity... God Bless, GEG
@@GardenerEarthGuy The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. The reason they're building on more and more land is to support ever increasing populations, larger populations means more money. It always comes down to money.
So in order to keep the night sky, people must change to specific lightbulbs that reduce not only light pollution but also have the added benefit of energy conservation.... interesting
@@JewTube001 If they're aesthetically pleasing I sure do. Traditional Edison bulb for example have a very unique and soft light but are really ineffective in terms of energy consumption and light output. I grew up with these bulbs in my house and I enjoy them quite a lot. I think having weaker lighting is bad for local communities though. It reduces the overall visibility of drivers and pedestrians potentially causing more accidents.
@@TacticalFemboy well maybe im the only one here but I'd rather pay less taxes for keeping on goverment lights. i drive on dark roads all the time and never had any issues relying on my headlamps.
Vickygrl737 Man me neither. I’m a 21 year old and I remember when I was 16 I would go out to the track every night and enjoy the beautiful sky and now it’s all just dark. And that is NOT good.
Of course! This applies to the region as a whole, including Wyoming. They just picked Idaho, due to the Dark Sky Reserve. In fact, some of the largest and darkest uninterrupted swaths of pitch black night sky (and thus, vibrant stars) are in Southeastern Oregon and sections of Nevada. There are very few towns of any size or even signs of humanity, aside from primitive roads here and there. It is truly worth experiencing.
Watching the sky with all the stars is beautiful. Sadly not many get to see them. I feel if more people saw how beautiful the sky was than they would have a more humble ideological thinking towards life. To remind them there’s a whole world out there.
Driving down Route 65 just south of Birmingham in Alabama is some of the prettiest Sky I've ever seen in my life.. one time we stopped my kid happened to look up and he saw some clouds that were really high up and he said wow Dad look at those clouds, I said no son that's no clouds that's the Milky Way, I've never seen his eyes so big before in my life, what a wonderful sight...
A critique would be to show more B roll footage of the night sky, especially at the end there at 5:00 instead of grainy footage of them looking at the sky.
I honestly can't say I'm concerned about this over the combo of nightmarish issues we're facing right now. Between climate change, deregulation, ocean plastics, and environmental destruction, there's far more to freak out over than being able to see some pretty lights in the sky.
I remember staring at the night sky during my first night at college in rural Minnesota. I probably spent 10 minutes just staring once I noticed that I could actually see the stars.
I have a family cabin in Ketchum Idaho right by a river, it's a beautiful place and it's somewhere I might want to retire when I'm old. Glad to know that I'll still be able to see the night sky when I reach that age.
It's more important for nature and animals (like bugs and thus birds etc) to keep the nights dark than for astronomers. Everyone should do this all over the world!
I was amazed at the sky when I moved from the east coast to Colorado. I had no clue you could see the milky way so perfectly with the naked eye. You can currently see it perfectly from all over the San Luis Valley, CO. Then again, there are TONS of UFO reports from that same area as well. :)
I live in Portland where it's pretty difficult to see the true night sky. Whenever i go home to visit family in rural michigan I really do appreciate seeing the stars again.
I can imagine, from the dark skies, you'd get as much power looking at it, as you do surfing a wave. Our mind and body can connect to the Universe more than looking at storefront displays. Unfortunately, my nearest 'Dark Sky' (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is more than an 8 hour drive away. o.0 Any place that has a dark sky approach would/and should be promoted. Make us feel where we are in this Universe. Our focus and energy is so much distracted into other things (I like UA-cam too much atm), but I'm always down for dark skies. I dream and meditate just by looking at it.
It is absolutely, positively, too late to convert Los Angeles and Las Vegas to a dark sky City. This very video discusses the challenges even in rural Idaho.
I grew up in Washington DC and now live in the mountains of central PA an when i first moved here i was literally in awe by how beautiful the night time sky really was.
Sadly that won't last for long... Idaho has been the fast growing state in the nation. Lots of people are moving in. Where Boise is booming and experiencing genterfication, adding more business and apartments complexs thus creating more light pollution. Even in smaller regions like Eastern Idaho the population is peeking. The low cost of living is running out. I live here and that's my observation. So much construction everywhere and traffic is a thing here now... Sucks light pollution and noise comes with the territory.
I keep my outside lights off for this reason I love to look up at the sky at night it's amazing. But my neighbors think I am up to somthing lol. they are missing out poor people with their strange thoughts. I'll keep one light on for them 👍👍😅.
Light pollution sucks. The good news is that in a few centuries it will no longer be an issue. Then again having no one to look up might be a larger concern.
I wish more cities cared about this... so sad that we have to create a reserve just to observe the universe. Every major city in the US could implement changes like this.
Road trip...... Noticed over last 35 years we've had to drive further and further out of town to go star gazing. Now to get very dark areas to use our telescopes we need to drive 4 hours one way. Never used to leave the backyard.....
People don’t like watching stars. I sometimes go outside and lay down and watch stars and see shooting stars... lots of people have never seen a shooting star
If we're on a spinning spheroid, why can't a helicopter hover for an hour and land in a completely different city? If we're on a spinning spheroid, how can I see the moon and sun at the same time almost year round? If we're on a spinning spheroid, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles through infinite space, why have we not flown through ANY space debris or nebulas EVER?
My favorite app of all time is called Sky Guide; I could spend all night looking at the sky! I would fail to thrive in a place where I could not see the stars at night or nature all around me.
It looks for me this all about the money we shouldn't worry about light pollution or Milky way that we can not see but about the garbage in the oceans and CO2 pollution, people that want to see milky way or stars have to go far from cities in deserts,forests, mountains
The thing is that these are not separated problems. They are more or less connected. We don't have to fix a single issue but all of them. It won't be done easily at least as long as our egos and the greed for money stand in the way of living together in peace.
I talked to my family one night about Flat Earth etc, I went on and on about how they’re hiding things from us and so on, I finally got their attention when I said , “when’s the last time you’ve seen the stars” the room went silent, I catch them looking up so often now lol.
mighty fine night sky you got there. wouldnt it be a shame if some one smeared nightmare fuel on it and the stars started to vanish. im sure theres enough darkness in the "people" of the state to rob you of your nighttime vistas beauty
Today, more than 80 percent of Americans can't see the Milky Way from their home cities. But deep in rural Idaho, the skies are alive.
WATCH NEXT: The Government Shutdown Is Turning Prison Guards Into Uber Drivers - bit.ly/2D19DcH
VICE News yall are forgetting Havvaii... 🤔🤗😘
Thanks for bringing awareness to this issue. Bravo Zulu.
Bill ...yah thanks 🤗
Im 64... and sadly I've watched the stars disappear... when I was a kid sleeping out watching the stars was soo much fun and finding a satellite was the prize :)
Thought it was me. I haven't seen stars ...I don't even recall seeing one.
HILLARY 4 PRISON
JUSTACHIPN They’re still there! They’re being hidden
Im 22 and satellites are a plenty in Canada, maybe you need glasses!
@@maximeb6662 You mist the whole point dear ;) I live in east bay S.F. Calif... as a kid we had farms everywhere... think about it ;)
never heard of rurual, Idaho! must be a small town in one of the RURAL parts of the state.
Well, this was probably put up by some intern in New York who views the rest of the country as rurual flyover space no one cares about.
If your not careful about your words, you might
dissapear someday, eh
There is nothing grammatically wrong with saying rural Idaho
Michael Hall Idaho is Rural
Killacamfoo O.G. Idaho is miles better than New York
I lived in Modoc County, California where we had clean sky. I'd go to sleep looking at the Milky Way every night.
Very few people have seen the sky, it's sad.
Very. It seems they are dead set on building on every square inch they can find.
@@TriniLush7
The less interaction people have with the sky, it's more likely they will live a life focused on the material things in this world instead of seeing the Love of Creation right in front of their nose.
Yes, there is an agenda to take that from humanity...
God Bless,
GEG
I USUALLY SLEEP WITH A TONGUE DEEP IN MY ANUS
@@GardenerEarthGuy The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. The reason they're building on more and more land is to support ever increasing populations, larger populations means more money. It always comes down to money.
Gardener Earth Guy I’m from Tuolumne county. Ain’t no city dwelling liberals out here! YEE YEE
Thought I recognized this video. It aired on HBO over 2 years ago!
So in order to keep the night sky, people must change to specific lightbulbs that reduce not only light pollution but also have the added benefit of energy conservation.... interesting
So obvious, right?
GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX
you'd prefer bulbs that cost more electricity?
@@JewTube001 If they're aesthetically pleasing I sure do. Traditional Edison bulb for example have a very unique and soft light but are really ineffective in terms of energy consumption and light output. I grew up with these bulbs in my house and I enjoy them quite a lot. I think having weaker lighting is bad for local communities though. It reduces the overall visibility of drivers and pedestrians potentially causing more accidents.
@@TacticalFemboy well maybe im the only one here but I'd rather pay less taxes for keeping on goverment lights. i drive on dark roads all the time and never had any issues relying on my headlamps.
Anyone else fell somewhat let down they didn't show what they were looking at in the telescope and the sky at the end.
A camera wouldn’t have been able to pick up exactly what they saw anyway. Not the same.
Wow!! My daughter just asked, why can't we see the stars anymore. I have never heard of this. I miss seeing the stars.
Vickygrl737 Man me neither. I’m a 21 year old and I remember when I was 16 I would go out to the track every night and enjoy the beautiful sky and now it’s all just dark. And that is NOT good.
The feds are causing this problem as well with chemtrails
Thanks fossil fuels
Kenneth Roth I want to know why people with your views ended up with them in the first place.
@@kennethroth6757 they control the weather with that stuff the stuff they be spraying that’s why we cannot see it
I bet Wyoming has less light of pollution than Idaho, I read somewhere that they are more animals than humans in the bordering state.
Of course! This applies to the region as a whole, including Wyoming. They just picked Idaho, due to the Dark Sky Reserve. In fact, some of the largest and darkest uninterrupted swaths of pitch black night sky (and thus, vibrant stars) are in Southeastern Oregon and sections of Nevada. There are very few towns of any size or even signs of humanity, aside from primitive roads here and there. It is truly worth experiencing.
Watching the sky with all the stars is beautiful. Sadly not many get to see them. I feel if more people saw how beautiful the sky was than they would have a more humble ideological thinking towards life. To remind them there’s a whole world out there.
Driving down Route 65 just south of Birmingham in Alabama is some of the prettiest Sky I've ever seen in my life.. one time we stopped my kid happened to look up and he saw some clouds that were really high up and he said wow Dad look at those clouds, I said no son that's no clouds that's the Milky Way, I've never seen his eyes so big before in my life, what a wonderful sight...
A critique would be to show more B roll footage of the night sky, especially at the end there at 5:00 instead of grainy footage of them looking at the sky.
I honestly can't say I'm concerned about this over the combo of nightmarish issues we're facing right now. Between climate change, deregulation, ocean plastics, and environmental destruction, there's far more to freak out over than being able to see some pretty lights in the sky.
You can’t beat the sky in Idaho. I live in south eastern part of the state, and one of the best views next to the mountains is the sky
I'm a dark sky chaser photographer. Next stop, Idaho.
I remember staring at the night sky during my first night at college in rural Minnesota. I probably spent 10 minutes just staring once I noticed that I could actually see the stars.
I have a family cabin in Ketchum Idaho right by a river, it's a beautiful place and it's somewhere I might want to retire when I'm old. Glad to know that I'll still be able to see the night sky when I reach that age.
It's more important for nature and animals (like bugs and thus birds etc) to keep the nights dark than for astronomers. Everyone should do this all over the world!
I was amazed at the sky when I moved from the east coast to Colorado. I had no clue you could see the milky way so perfectly with the naked eye. You can currently see it perfectly from all over the San Luis Valley, CO. Then again, there are TONS of UFO reports from that same area as well. :)
growing up in nyc, i never saw the stars as a kid except in the planetarium 😔
Can easily ride the train upstate though or to the Hamptons.
@@Nicholas-f5 Or get on an Amtrak to St Louis, and then head to Eminence
I live in Portland where it's pretty difficult to see the true night sky. Whenever i go home to visit family in rural michigan I really do appreciate seeing the stars again.
I can imagine, from the dark skies, you'd get as much power looking at it, as you do surfing a wave.
Our mind and body can connect to the Universe more than looking at storefront displays.
Unfortunately, my nearest 'Dark Sky' (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is more than an 8 hour drive away. o.0
Any place that has a dark sky approach would/and should be promoted. Make us feel where we are in this Universe.
Our focus and energy is so much distracted into other things (I like UA-cam too much atm), but I'm always down for dark skies. I dream and meditate just by looking at it.
It is absolutely, positively, too late to convert Los Angeles and Las Vegas to a dark sky City. This very video discusses the challenges even in rural Idaho.
You could maybe do it in a smaller city but definitely not LA
Really depressing to me. I've known about it for years but it's getting worse. We're missing out.
I grew up in Washington DC and now live in the mountains of central PA an when i first moved here i was literally in awe by how beautiful the night time sky really was.
Camped there this Summer. Didn't know it was a dark sky preserve, until after my visit. Pretty confident, I saw every star in our galaxy that night.
You Spelled Rural wrong
Spelling FAIL
Oi mate, you got a permit for that light?
Police state
Sadly that won't last for long... Idaho has been the fast growing state in the nation. Lots of people are moving in. Where Boise is booming and experiencing genterfication, adding more business and apartments complexs thus creating more light pollution. Even in smaller regions like Eastern Idaho the population is peeking. The low cost of living is running out. I live here and that's my observation. So much construction everywhere and traffic is a thing here now... Sucks light pollution and noise comes with the territory.
ruts17 same and it’s true
Idaho is the new white utopia. Democratic politicians will be sure to make things more "diverse" asap.
Thank California for that
I keep my outside lights off for this reason I love to look up at the sky at night it's amazing. But my neighbors think I am up to somthing lol. they are missing out poor people with their strange thoughts. I'll keep one light on for them 👍👍😅.
Does anyone know how to go about making one of these light preserves?
DarkSkyAlliance
Why all the reuploads?
Glad I got a cabin in the Catskills I get to drink the purest water and see the cleanest skies.
This video would be twice as good If they had a tour of that dudes sweet house.
The Firmament looks so beautiful without light pollution.😃😊
Ya it's sad I have to drive an hour out in the Mojave desert to see the night sky
Thank you for teaching me something new
The way i see it.... If you cant sit on your porch and see a sky full of stars, you have baught the wrong house.
I look up, And..... i cry.
Light pollution sucks. The good news is that in a few centuries it will no longer be an issue. Then again having no one to look up might be a larger concern.
I wish more cities cared about this... so sad that we have to create a reserve just to observe the universe. Every major city in the US could implement changes like this.
Great Video
Spelling error in the title.
It’s called people using electricity
Bishop California is the perfect place to put one observatory. It’s perfect clear skies.
Ketchum and sun valley aren't even in the darkest part of Idaho. You guys landed at the airport and didn't travel more than 10 miles away, didn't you.
Well if they stopped spraying chemicals for weather control, etc, then we might be able to see better.
we need this in the UK
Road trip...... Noticed over last 35 years we've had to drive further and further out of town to go star gazing. Now to get very dark areas to use our telescopes we need to drive 4 hours one way. Never used to leave the backyard.....
Im from douglas wyoming
..i see the stars every night
People don’t like watching stars. I sometimes go outside and lay down and watch stars and see shooting stars... lots of people have never seen a shooting star
If we're on a spinning spheroid, why can't a helicopter hover for an hour and land in a completely different city? If we're on a spinning spheroid, how can I see the moon and sun at the same time almost year round? If we're on a spinning spheroid, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles through infinite space, why have we not flown through ANY space debris or nebulas EVER?
Literally anywhere in south/north Dakota
Why don’t we just turn off all the lights between 2 and 5 AM?
RURAL, Vice! You guys must be on some crazy weed over there!
Edit: They spelled disappearing wrong too!
Tell your city to stop wasting millions a year in energy and to switch to energy efficient and focused LED streetlights!
Love my Canadian backyard I can walk out and see the stars anytime. Too bad so many take it for granted and don't truly understand how lucky we are!!!
My favorite app of all time is called Sky Guide; I could spend all night looking at the sky! I would fail to thrive in a place where I could not see the stars at night or nature all around me.
Few places left to see The Milky Way??? thats wrong!
Wow I'd love to come see the stars here. Where I live there's soo much light pollution 24/7 for miles and miles around.
this is world class darkness
Why are the stars disappearing can someone enlighten me please ??
im from mid city los Angeles ca.....what stars??
This is old, I remember this video
We all don't live on the internet 🤦🏿
I wish more people cared about light pollution
Fascinating.
Idahome #208baby
Theres still tons of perfect 100% dark skies in west USA
It looks for me this all about the money we shouldn't worry about light pollution or Milky way that we can not see but about the garbage in the oceans and CO2 pollution, people that want to see milky way or stars have to go far from cities in deserts,forests, mountains
We need to fix all connected issues.
The thing is that these are not separated problems. They are more or less connected. We don't have to fix a single issue but all of them. It won't be done easily at least as long as our egos and the greed for money stand in the way of living together in peace.
bubakushog yes and people who want clean water and snow can go to far north or high mountains and to Fiji or Hawaii
Why not work on both
Love this!!!
This is awesome
I talked to my family one night about Flat Earth etc, I went on and on about how they’re hiding things from us and so on, I finally got their attention when I said , “when’s the last time you’ve seen the stars” the room went silent, I catch them looking up so often now lol.
What family?
So only dark clear skies in rural Idaho? Uh yeah....
Meanwhile we are dying from inhaling fumes from cars,factories etc. Every day..
nah lets talk about 'light pollution'
why not both?
Ban all lights
I'm here before conspiracy theorist say space travel is a hoax and the stars are disappearing because people are waking up.
Try the Stanislaus national forest
How
Ever been to Wyoming?
This video is from 2016. Is Vice doing clickbait now??
On the east coast the skies are pitch black
Heck I'd say it's Urban
Oh my God we found Ash's dad!
That wont last long
Nigel Duara sounds like Neil Degrass Tyson
Really? I live in Ga and I have clear dark skies
yes! NO clear dark sky's in the UK for 6 months now ?
now i wanna move there
Sadly, people talk about watts - not lumens. (:-( Industry still part of the problem. (:-( Harsh, splashy too-bright LED lights a problem.
He needs to spend 5 bucks on WD40
Yeah.... why when we look up, it isn’t dark, there’s a glow? - Los Angeles
It’s just another day for me. They did this to try and draw more people to move here. What a joke
Are they suggesting that people actually follow regulation even if it poses a minor inconvenience? Some let the GOP know
Rurual? Lol. Which dictionary do you use? Certainly not Merriam Webster or Oxford 😂😝
*rural
Head to the Mountains...you will see the sky in it's full glory and it is spectacular!! I pray for a black out or an EMP event....bang instant sky!
mighty fine night sky you got there. wouldnt it be a shame if some one smeared nightmare fuel on it and the stars started to vanish. im sure theres enough darkness in the "people" of the state to rob you of your nighttime vistas beauty
I'm so glad my town isn't dictatorial. 100 wat bulb no problem here
Who wrote the caption for this video, Donald Trump?
Lol
No!
Probably one of his proofreaders,
Not enough mistakes to have actually been penned by the Commander in Grief, I mean Chief...
Christine LaPorte Attempt at humor.......fail
@@pauli6570 give her a break she watches SNL she has never been exposed to real comedy
Uh oh. Watch all the angry repubtard snowflakes jump out the woodworks