I don’t think I (or anyone I’ve seen in this thread) has said “earth astronomy is over” or anything similar. They’ve said: this incurs a huge negative external

I don’t think I (or anyone I’ve seen in this thread) has said “earth astronomy is over” or anything similar. They’ve said: this incurs a huge negative externality on the astronomy community. The response was: it doesn’t matter because Starship will send up space telescopes at some point hopefully (TBD how long it’ll take, if ever, for them to reach the same availability as extant terrestrial telescopes) That is the counterproductive response.