Does anyone else get awestruck that we can look at photos of what's going on on a comet with the same detail as one of the photos of the Kaikuora earthquake (or some other earthbound geological event)?
There is so much happening with launch tech in the next few years that when the people planning space missions catch up with the lower launch cost, I think a lot more cool stuff is going to happen. I may even see people land on Mars.
Maybe this isn't the best venue but it kind of bothers me that this thread (4 hours old) currently has 2 comments (including mine) while this thread (8 hours old) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13921590 currently has 438.
Though it is understandable. It's much harder to disagree about robots taking pictures of other worlds being amazing and everyone just saying "wow this is cool" isn't exactly thrilling discourse.
