Light pollution - an atmospheric phenomenon resulting in decreased visibility of the night sky due to light scattering under certain conditions that used to be present in the atmosphere until 1974 when the effect was dramatically reversed overnight due to the ozone hole cascade effect.

Is 1974 a multiple of 25 years ago. Is the ozone hole cascade effect obvious bullshit.

The ozone hole cascade Wikipedia article is a stub and just rehashes what's in the light pollution summary. The timing works out to right around 50 years ago.

"I guess there... are technically worse reasons to murder half a dozen people..."

"Does the explanation make any sense?"

"There's kind of not even an explanation, just a phrase that might appease someone who couldn't think about it too hard, I hate it."

"Huh, that's different from how I remember it working. I'd expect to see people saying god did it or disagreeing on the explanation or something, not making up a bad one without thinking about it."

"The pseudoscience phrase might be the modern equivalent of 'God did it', maybe, there's not much global consensus on God."

"There wasn't really back then either, people would argue about exactly why god, or a god, did something like sinking Atlantis."

"Atlantis was real?"

"Oh, I guess I don't know - I assumed so since it seemed plausible and their were a lot of stories about it. Is it not on your world?"

"It is not on my world but it is a well known myth. So I guess this world might have a Spirit Atlantis whether it ever existed on this Earth or not."

"I bet you it exists somewhere in the spirit plane even if it didn't exist in the real world."

"Never ran into it yourself?"

"No - I didn't recognize any of the places I ran into."

"Well, the stars look incredible."

"They really do."

"You can only see a handful of them near a city on my world."

"Oh that's awful - there aren't stars in the spirit plane but there is a weird sort of glittery sky and it's nice except for how it never changes at all."

"Well, the stars change but only on a cyclic basis. And very occasionally via supernova."

"There's also the sun going up and down. And the moon."

"And clouds, which aren't cyclic, I like those."

"Yeah, clouds are great."

May sits up watching the stars for a while, and then goes to bed. To sleeping bag, rather.

Lia stands guard all night, May can refresh her energy later.

During breakfast the next morning May gets a breaking news notification that there's some sort of ongoing traffic situation going on downtown involving an accident. There's even a picture of the accident, with several cars piled up under the body of a muscular humanoid velociraptor with additional velociraptor heads instead of hands, blood dripping from the teeth of all three mouths. The caption says the accident was started by a collision between two cars.