[nelblu]

Agreed, this shouldn't be surprising at all, on the contrary it is sad that today's urban generation will never appreciate what it is to look up and only see stars. When I was a kid we used to sleep on the terrace during summer season. My uncle and I would stare at the stars, constellations, meteors etc. and he would tell me their names in both English and in my native language. It was quite fascinating how the mythologies of the constellations were different in different languages. Ex: The great bear (ursa major) was known as the seven sages (when translated in English). The pole star was a mythological diety, Orion the hunter was actually a deer. Sometimes we stayed awake well into the early dawn. Those were some of my best childhood memories.

[typeofhuman]

One of the things that shocked me the most when visiting New York City is that on a daily places I would only see a tiny, narrow sliver of the sky. It's mostly covered up by buildings. Then I wondered what affect this has on the people who live there. It was awful for me.