[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Navigation and communication satellites, Earth's eyes and ears, would be destroyed

These devices are Man's eyes and ears.

I think the Earth would be able to get on just fine without them.

[Lazamataz]

These devices are Man's eyes and ears.

No, they are Earth's eyes and ears.

And the polar caps are Earth's contact lenses.

And the oceans are Earth's No-Rub^TM multipurpose saline solution.