re vandalizing the sky in article c y t w news cso uiuc edu gfk uxa cso uiuc edu george f krumins writes it is so typical that the rights of the minority are extinguished by the wants of the majority no matter how ridiculous those wants might be george it s called a democracy the majority rules sorry if ytou don t like it i suggest you modify the constitution to include a constitutional right to dark skies the theory of government here is that the majority rules except in the nature of fundamental civil rights if you really are annoyed get some legislation to create a dark sky zone where in all light emissions are protected in the zone kind of like the national radio quiet zone did you know about that near teh radio telescope observatory in west virginia they have a mile emcon zone theoretically they can prevent you from running light ac motors like air conditioners and vacuums in practice they use it mostly to control large radio users pat
