A closer look
Las Vegas Strip shoots a beam of light from the Luxor pyramid so intensely bright that it can be seen from space, but its real achievement is functioning as the world's most effective bug zapper. This massive spotlight requires thirty-nine xenon lamps costing thousands of dollars an hour to run, creating a glowing artificial ecosystem that attracts billions of moths, bats, and incredibly confused migratory birds. The sheer volume of dead insects raining down around the pyramid is so immense that hotel staff have to employ full-time workers just to scrub the crusty biological debris off the expensive glass windows. It perfectly encapsulates the entire Vegas experience, a blindingly expensive spectacle designed to lure in unsuspecting creatures only to drain their energy and leave them completely ruined in the middle of a barren desert
