How To Hack Your Street Lamps Like An Astronaut

A bright street lamp can ruin a night of stargazing , saturating your retinas with lightness and washing out the comparatively shadowy incandescence of constellations and meteors . Here ’s a handy hack you’re able to habituate the next time you need to put one temporarily ( and reversibly ) out of business sector , good manners of NASA astronaut Don Pettit .

Pettit express up about a mo into the latest instalment of the prominent YouTube serial Smarter Every Day , in which host Destin announces his plan to release a video every month devoted to space technical school and the people who build and employ that technical school . That ’s exciting , because it signify Destin will be hang out with masses like astronauts ! cosmonaut like Pettit ! I wo n’t ruin Pettit ’s machine politician for you ( if you ’re intimate with him , you make love it ’s sport to watch him excuse things ) . Suffice to say it ’s reasonably clever . Just make indisputable , if you prove it for yourself , to do so responsibly .

Pettit is a personal pet of mine . Not only is he saucy , he ’s also unmistakably resourceful , whether he’susing a CD player to demonstrate gyroscopic stability in microgravity , playing witha yo - yoin space , orinventing a zero - g coffee cupful .