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minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 day agoIt’s a far cry from when I lived in the woods and could walk around on a dark night just from the light of fireflies.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoWhen I was a child in the 70s we’d visit my great-grandparents in Indianapolis and the lightning bugs were like that. Image, a heavily polluted, major metro area had more lightning bugs than anywhere I’ve seen since.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI’m living in the same place I grew up and when I was a kid we could catch a couple dozen a night, enough to fill a jar and read by.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agoI had a sergeant who sneaked up on some troopies based on the light from the unshielded radium pips on someone’s wristwatch. (Why yes. He was 22me regiment; why do you ask?) But, point is, you didn’t take a flashlight because the light was enough, and your eyes adjusted and made it enough, because it was enough. Anyway, 10 years of doubling is 1000x. 6ooo fireflies would be cool.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agoIf I’m still in the suburbs in a decade I’ll kill myself. I’m fucking back off to the boonies at the first opportunity
It’s a far cry from when I lived in the woods and could walk around on a dark night just from the light of fireflies.
When I was a child in the 70s we’d visit my great-grandparents in Indianapolis and the lightning bugs were like that. Image, a heavily polluted, major metro area had more lightning bugs than anywhere I’ve seen since.
I’m living in the same place I grew up and when I was a kid we could catch a couple dozen a night, enough to fill a jar and read by.
I had a sergeant who sneaked up on some troopies based on the light from the unshielded radium pips on someone’s wristwatch.
(Why yes. He was 22me regiment; why do you ask?)
But, point is, you didn’t take a flashlight because the light was enough, and your eyes adjusted and made it enough, because it was enough.
Anyway, 10 years of doubling is 1000x. 6ooo fireflies would be cool.
If I’m still in the suburbs in a decade I’ll kill myself.
I’m fucking back off to the boonies at the first opportunity