Kate Matsuda · 10 answers · 2mo

Did you know that 1994 during an power outage in LA many people called 911 because they saw a silvery band across the sky. They saw the Milky Way for the first time! Thoughts?

If you've lived in a huge city all your life it's understandable that you haven't seen many stars, let alone the Milky Way - also, it was pre internet, which is a thing. And it is an absolutely astounding to see. It's also absolutely astounding why people would call the police because of it. What did they expect the police to do? Get in their police spaceship and shoot it down? (Probably.)

I miss that silvery band 😭 say what you will about post Soviet era 3rd world countries struggling with basic necessities like electricity, but our skies were magnificent.

Not surprising, people here call 911 because their burger has the wrong toppings on it, anyway that would have been cool to see

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