The sky is falling ping.
IMHO, this is a huge waste of money.
> IMHO, this is a huge waste of money.
Why? Right now it's nothing more than astronomers looking at the sky. If the gubmint decides to go ahead and build actual infrastructure, that'll necessarily lead to advanced propulsion systems, nuke sin space, increased man-in-space research, all sorts of good stuff terribly useful in entirely different capacities.