ChrisInSyd
Paranormal Novice
Hello all,
I just had some thoughts re a statement I read/heard recently. The experts were talking about the growth in the percentage of people in the world now living in cities. I believe the figure quoted may have been 80% (please don't flame me if i am wrong, just correct me it's kinder). So i started to think how that would effect sightings, encounters etc.
1) Light pollution. - I live in Sydney, Australia. When i was a boy in the 70's you could see the sky clearly and easily observe large numbers of stars with the naked eye even in the inner city suburbs. These days I live in a far northern outer suburb and I still would not see as many stars as I did as a child. Is the conclusion that as more people move into the cities then a higher percentage than before is now masked from anything in the air?
2) People don't look up. - I truly believe the average man rarely looks at anything higher than 6 feet in front of him. Most people walk around, head down, afraid to make eye contact, let alone having the confidence to look up and simply enjoy a blue sky or a black night.
3) There's no impetus - People don't go out and look at the night sky because they don't have any reason to...and we are a society were you have to have a reason to turn the TV off aren't we? Mid to late 60's and early 70's people walked outside to see the Apollo craft circling the Earth, looking out for anything to do with space. Now there is virtually no information passed to the general public to do this (and along with the light pollution, little opportunity).
4) Great camouflage - If I were an advanced species looking to study a growing population I would look for areas where I can do so using the easiest ways of not being seen. We have polluted the visible medium and cities are also massive nodes for all other frequencies (mobile phones, radio, tv, short wave, x-ray, mri etc). If they can cut through our electromagnetic mess better than we can, well they could sit and watch with confidence? An electromagnetic bird hide?
5) Alternatively - Our cities have made it harder for them in the Western world. Hence the increased density of sitings in growth areas such as South America? Potentially they can look at our technology without directly exposing themselves to the cutting edge technology of our civilization?
I am no expert. I am sure all these thoughts have been aired before. I would be interested in any answers or further expansion of the topic.
All the best,
Chris
I just had some thoughts re a statement I read/heard recently. The experts were talking about the growth in the percentage of people in the world now living in cities. I believe the figure quoted may have been 80% (please don't flame me if i am wrong, just correct me it's kinder). So i started to think how that would effect sightings, encounters etc.
1) Light pollution. - I live in Sydney, Australia. When i was a boy in the 70's you could see the sky clearly and easily observe large numbers of stars with the naked eye even in the inner city suburbs. These days I live in a far northern outer suburb and I still would not see as many stars as I did as a child. Is the conclusion that as more people move into the cities then a higher percentage than before is now masked from anything in the air?
2) People don't look up. - I truly believe the average man rarely looks at anything higher than 6 feet in front of him. Most people walk around, head down, afraid to make eye contact, let alone having the confidence to look up and simply enjoy a blue sky or a black night.
3) There's no impetus - People don't go out and look at the night sky because they don't have any reason to...and we are a society were you have to have a reason to turn the TV off aren't we? Mid to late 60's and early 70's people walked outside to see the Apollo craft circling the Earth, looking out for anything to do with space. Now there is virtually no information passed to the general public to do this (and along with the light pollution, little opportunity).
4) Great camouflage - If I were an advanced species looking to study a growing population I would look for areas where I can do so using the easiest ways of not being seen. We have polluted the visible medium and cities are also massive nodes for all other frequencies (mobile phones, radio, tv, short wave, x-ray, mri etc). If they can cut through our electromagnetic mess better than we can, well they could sit and watch with confidence? An electromagnetic bird hide?
5) Alternatively - Our cities have made it harder for them in the Western world. Hence the increased density of sitings in growth areas such as South America? Potentially they can look at our technology without directly exposing themselves to the cutting edge technology of our civilization?
I am no expert. I am sure all these thoughts have been aired before. I would be interested in any answers or further expansion of the topic.
All the best,
Chris
