head-first wrote:
...Because moonlight simply isn't good enough...
Why illuminating Stonehenge is an unenlightened idea.Comment from the Guardian;
On the roads;.. "it is only the neolithic and bronze age remains, spattered like grapeshot across the white spaces of an Ordnance Survey sheet, that break this uncompromising geometry."
With Ian Vince on this one. We are.........
"in comparison to the builders of places like Stonehenge – intuitively dim. Lighting up those stones, introducing a few more lux of light pollution, will only make us marginally dimmer, more disconnected from the celestial calendars that Stonehenge, in all probability, was constructed to observe. This, as any sane observer of our insane treatment of the environment knows, is exactly the wrong way to go."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/05/stonehenge-illuminating