9. Given the authority to establish a holiday, what would you choose to commemorate? Why? What would the celebration look like?

If i had the authority to establish a holiday, it would be to commemorate the famous astronomers such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, Edwin Hubble, Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking, and their contributions to the space race. Thanks to these astronomers scientists have discovered many things about the endless void called space, outside of Earth. Some of these discoveries even contributed to learning more about the planet we live in. Constantly viewing Orion, the Little Dipper, and other obvious constellations every night, I've come to realize that we outshine many stars with the millions of lights each city has. So this holiday would require for the country to turn off all its electricity for 1 full night. Many people busy with their daily lives ignore the night sky and its beauty. This beauty is limited by the lights as well. Turning off the lights in the country would light up the night sky with billions of stars that were not visible because of the own light that we have created, and would allow everyone to take a break and see the beauty that the sky really is and space itself. So much energy would be saved from this holiday. 1 issue with this holiday would be security of people's private property and their own protection so i would ask for the police force to be on high alert and patrol the cities all night to keep everyone safe. Being a child of the Technology Age, I've come to realize that sooner or later the natural resources of this world will be exhausted and that is when we will all need to take off into space in search of resources to continue with our existence and if it weren't for these such astronomers and more, we'd be jumping in blindly to an endless abyss with no idea of what is out there. So this holiday would raise awareness of astronomers and their contributions and would thank them for all they have done.