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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i would assume its the same concept as you looking at your monitor displaying a clear image made up of 100s of thousands of individual pixels of light. distance dictates the scale of visibility.

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