[vayeate]

Satellites aren't pollution. They have a 10 year service life then fall back down to Earth.

Do you also complain about buildings ruining your french nights? Or billboards? Or traffic noise? Should we ban all automobiles and buildings and outdoor lighting? Should we ban all combustion engines to ensure there's no amount of smog in the air as well?

Satellites are extremely far down on the list of public nuisances and don't serve any threat to our health unlike smog and carbon emissions.

[olivierduval]

Actually, a significant part of french people (and growing) are against traffic noise and visual pollution... they're called ecologist ! And combustion engine will be ban in Europe after 2035 IIRC. So I guess that maybe it could mean something on what "people" want in Europe...

And even more: some are against "renewal energy" like wind fields because of both!

Satellites are down on public nuisance BECAUSE there's not a lot of it ! But how will it rate when there will be 100 times more ? And then, we will have to live with it for 10 years maybe... and surely more (because you know: once it's done, it's hard to lose the investment)

Just to be clear: maybe it's not the worst idea... but we should ALL talk about it, and not only the US people