re vandalizing the sky in article apr mksol dseg ti com mccall mksol dseg ti com fred j mccall writes in c na c news cso uiuc edu gfk uxa cso uiuc edu george f krumins writes i was suggesting that the minority of professional and amateur astronomers have the right to a dark uncluttered night sky and from whence does this right stem that it overrides the rights of the rest of us let me get this right sorry try again let me get this straight well maybe that too is a poor choice of words someone might think i m pushing a gay agenda how about let me try to understand this by re phrasing it as an extreme i as a minority of one have no right to a beautiful world you on the other hand have the right to make an ugly one because you presume to speak for all the rest and i cannot complain curious i say what i m objecting to here is a floating billboard that presumably would move around in the sky i for one am against legislating at all i just wish that people had a bit of common courtesy and would consider how their greed for money impacts the more ethereal and aesthetic values that make us human this includes the need for wild and unspoiled things including the night sky oh i see you don t want any legislation that might impinge on you you just want everyone else on the planet to do what you want and do you want everyone to do as you wish insist on putting something up that will impact everyone for selfish reasons without any legislation and no one else can even object somehow i think this whole shoving contest has gotten way off the track i m ready to let this thread die a quick and merciful death insisting on perfect safety is for people who don t have the balls to live in the real world mary shafer nasa ames dryden fred mccall dseg ti com i don t speak for others and they don t speak for me wm hathaway baltimore md
