From: Chris Olson - SunPS <Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM> >> I thought this was amusing: >> >> There's a trick I like to pull on my friends. Standing in a large >> city on an overcast night, I'll ask them to look down at the >> sidewalk and tell me what color the sky is. They invariably will >> say black or, sometimes, dark blue. Look up, I'll say. And to >> their astonishment the sky is neither black nor blue, but a dull, >> smoky red - reflecting the orange glow of all those sodium and >> mercury vapor streetlights. > >As a former resident of San Francisco, this is entirely >accurate. There have been times (though not every night) >when the sky above the City does have a strange orange cast >to it, and even though you can't see the moon or stars, the >sky is shockingly bright. I've lived in Oakland/Berkeley all my life, and I've noticed this many times. Do people really not? I suppose there are just a lot of people who rarely look up; I've heard that there are those who haven't even noticed that the moon sometimes appears in the daytime sky. -- David Goldfarb <*>|"Just once I'd like to battle an alien menace goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | that *wasn't* immune to bullets." | -- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stuart goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | Doctor Who: "Robot"