Why a single light pole isn’t visible from space but a city full of individual ones is?

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I can’t wrap my head around this. The light poles are still emiting light individually, so how do they get merged into one single source of light when viewed from space and become visible? It feels logical to me that one light pole should look the same as a hundred thousand since they’re just a repetition of one light pole with each one acting separately.

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It’s the same way when you watch TV or look at your phone you don’t see each individual pixel of light but the collection of each pixel to make out the image you are looking at.

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