Sure. But we all know what the astronomers would answer too. Fibre and coax broadband are plenty fine for them... I don't know how to measure some objective ra

Sure. But we all know what the astronomers would answer too. Fibre and coax broadband are plenty fine for them... I don't know how to measure some objective ranking of the benefits of terrestrial astronomy vs satellite internet services - I doubt there's any way to quantify those two things sensibly. I _do_ note though, that while the existence of telescopes on the ground doesn't threaten the existence of satellite internet, satellite internet _does_ threaten the existence of ground based astronomy. Doesn't seem "right" that SpaceX(or Amazon or other constellations) can just say "Sucks to be you, we're going to fuck up your entire field of study because we think we can make a buck here". Pretty sure we shouldn't just let Elon and Jeff decide here, without letting orgs like the IAU at least have their say, and put forward an argument against it...