Well, there will be light pollution and the ground-based astronomers will be spitting blood.
I thought we're at or nearing the point where the big astronomy stuff will soon be discovered, as it were, and studied by what one can call the children of Hubble, that is, space-based telescopes. And given Charlie's projections here, that would be a real thing within a generation or two at mist. And if ground-based astronomers want to spit blood, they can bemoan the loss of Arecibo and the (apparent?) lack of interest in replacing it, maybe more so since I would think the satellite pollution would be less of a problem -- maybe none -- for a radio scope. Just saying. Even if civilization regresses, technology -- tools -- move on.
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