[ethbr0]

The reason you're getting downvoted is that your base argument is that we shouldn't have cars because then there won't be picturesque horse pastures to look at. The same has been said about offshore wind.

Increasing global networking, and doing so in a ground-infrastructure-agnostic way, has the potential of connecting billions of people to the global internet in a cost-effective way.

Sometimes, progress outweighs the cost.

And parent comment presented a nice alternative approach for the specific astronomy case.