Ah so you can attach a cable to a plane? Or a ship? If it achieves nothing, why is there global demand? The simple fact it, it is superior in many ways for a h

Ah so you can attach a cable to a plane? Or a ship? If it achieves nothing, why is there global demand? The simple fact it, it is superior in many ways for a huge number of application and just denying the is never work. As for the 'visual pollution' its mostly just not true. For the waste majority of humans its invisible basically always outside of a few situations. For most terrestrial telescopes it doesn't really matter much. Broad visual surveying telescopes take a slight hit but its not like they will be no longer working. Many of the issues SpaceX has addressed and made the problem way less impactful. Some very sensitive radio telescopes are also slightly effect and having some regulation like we do on earth for electronic devices would make sense. The idea that its some horrible thing just doesn't hold up. The benefits outweigh the cost by a gigantic amount. Starlink is used to give good internet to native Americans who life away from infrastructure. The worth of these things are far, far, far higher then the few 10s of millions we lose in observatory performance.