They went on forever and they, when I, we lived in Arizona and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in them and, er they were long and clear and there were lots of stars at night and, er, when it would rain it would all turn, it, they were beautiful, the most beautiful skies, as a matter of fact…
Fun fact, the track was built around a sample from this:
There were way, way, way more bugs. Yesterday I spent about 12 hours on the highway, and I didn’t need to pull over to clean my windshield once. 20-30 years ago my windshield and headlights would be completely plastered after a few hours.
That’s not because of the number of bugs, it’s because your newer car has better aerodynamics than your 20/30 year old one.
10 trillion members as late as 1875. Soon after, their population rapidly declined, with the last recorded sighting in 1902, and the species formally declared extinct in 2014.
jfc
Me and my friends would go out at night and see how many lightning bugs we could catch. We would do this every summer night. My dad made us a couple of big containers with wire mesh lids so none ever got hurt.
We always had them filled and glowing like some crazy looking lantern out of a steampunk game. We would let them out to fly away when we were done but they would be everywhere as thick as you could see when the sun when down.
Now I think I have been lucky to catch one or two after dark.
The skies were full of birds. Like 50 times what we have today.
Night sky had the Milky Way. Same place now, can probably only see a hundred stars total.
So much light pollution. I grew up without mountains and now live somewhere with mountains. Miss that wide open sky. Day and night.
