While we speculate, I'm just marveled that we can get an image of that clarity and crispness _from Mars_.
And so if you asked people from that time first consuming that media what they imagine the world (in terms of space) would look like 40 years later, us looking at somewhat higher resolution pictures from Mars would sound skeptical to the point of absurdity.
[1] - https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Sony_wat...
As such a person, I do in fact concur. We really expected a moon colony fairly soon, and by now, a thriving colony on Mars.
We were wildly naïve about how hard it was. To have a self-sustaining colony on Mars, you would have to re-invent every single piece of technology we use on Earth to work in an environment of complete scarcity.
Why are people taking pictures of Chuck Norris’s bathroom?
In Malaysia, you would see people complaining if their Nasi Lemak costed more than RM 5, but the same person would happily pay RM 15 for coffee. It appeared that there was a norm at play, that Nasi Lemak belongs to Malaysian streets and should be cheap, while coffee is a western thing and it's normal to be expensive.
For some others, queuing up, the micro-interactions, and drinking while walking to the office (or even back to their home office) seems to be a morning ritual. I could see myself in this group if I did not prefer my own blend and brew.
But with coffee being grown in the North coffee itself isn’t seen as “Western”, and the older styles using robusta beans—like กาแฟโบราณ, โอเลี้ยง, etc.—are still sold for 20–30฿ from street carts, while the arabica espresso options with an ‘experience’ to it costs way more.
A V60 pourover is usually much more better ( and easier to clean and less chances of breaking too )
For me atleast V60 usually provides consistently better coffee then a chemex brewed one and is also less effort.
(I then go home a brew a pot for me and my wife - who prefers to sleep in on Saturdays.)
Compare and contrast the Eagle Nebula from it's raw form enhanced with "false colors".
It’s sweet how the simplest things bring babies joy, but we wouldn’t accomplish all that much if jingling keys fascinated us our whole lives.
You can probably fund a moon colony just on tourism and entertainment.
The Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have a fair amount of on-board storage (for an interplanetary probe). So they can spool a lot of data and then send a batch to the orbiters and then go about their next tasks. The orbiters also have a lot of storage (for interplanetary probes) and can themselves spool a lot of data until they're in a transmit window to Earth.