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Hm. "The heavens" is a protected area, like a wilderness or polar bear? What hubris - tiny humans feeling possessive about the entirety of the universe. Something very off here. And these are exactly the people who should appreciate our insignificance in the cosmos.

Maybe they just expressed themselves badly. Its our 'sphere of observation' or some such, that they feel is being badly treated?

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I'd argue the hubris is going the other way: launching shiny stuff into space that everyone has to look at. It's launching trash into space, IMHO, and I reacted quite negatively at first as well.

Nobody has to look at it. Any more than the rest of the stuff going by on a dark night. Which folks in the city can't see anyway.

No this issue is overheated silliness.

Just wait when coca-cola and friends fill the skies with their own logo constellations when (not if) space technology gets cheap enough. After all, it only needs to be cheaper than conventional ad campaigns to be viable.

Imagine going camping or into sea and having a canvas of logos everywhere you look at during the night.

Nobody has to look at it right?

Dismissing this issue as "overheated silliness" is extremely naive and short-sighted.

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