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Star struck: a Chilean town turns its sky into a money-maker. (Executive Travel).(Vicuna, Chile; telescope projects, tourism)
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Malcolm Smith once worried, some say obsessed, about light bulbs. Not just any light bulbs, mind you, but the thousands of 70-watt bulbs lining the streets of this tiny Chilean town. He warned the few people willing to listen that the lights would eventually ruin the town's most valuable asset: utter darkness.
Smith's concerns were more than aesthetic. Vicuna boasts some of the planet's most dramatic night skies, an asset that has drawn US$1.2 billion in international telescope projects, millions of dollars in construction jobs and a blossoming tourism industry.
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