xkcd #3225: Satellite Pollution

https://lemmy.world/post/44837657

Who would’ve thought that astronomy as a science only had like 500 years window to the clear sky… That any advanced enough civilization would as quickly and enthusiastically blot out their own skies for short term gains…

it’s bigger than that.

humans looked to the skies and saw gods, and now? most people haven’t seen the stars anymore. we, humans have killed those gods and removed the stars from the skies.