Referring to people trying to emulate classic shots as "illegal by US copyright laws and common decency"... What a load of horsefeathers.
Agreed. Ken seems to be getting more and more unhinged these days. He must be forgetting his meds.
Bzzzt, wrong. Maybe you better spend a few more minutes outside after looking at that computer monitor. It takes awhile for your eyes to dark adapt.
I live in the midwest where we do get a bunch of moisture in the air. While it does affect the transparency of the atmosphere only about 1 magnitude is lost.http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/astro/transpa
What makes the increased moisture level bad is the local light pollution that now has additional particles (of water) to reflect off creating a 'less dark' sky.
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