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US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network
(www.bbc.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
But that's like half the problem with it.
Obviously some people don't care about science. But yeah, the inability to properly observe space from Earth would be crushing - while the new space telescopes are goddamned awesome, they're also ridiculously expensive and tiny compared to the massive surface-built structures we have on Earth.