> but using your phone camera doesn't really make you think "this is caused by distance measurement to the stars"
Maybe it should!
There's so many technologies that we use today that derive from astronomy, space exploration and similar. We don't do a good job making that point to folks.
Well, maybe it's because in the last two to three decades, for the layman, technology has been mostly delivering funny gadgets, small incremental improvements, and massive problems.
We still need fusion reactors, flying cars, telepathy and a cure for cancer yesteryear.
Instead we had 140 characters, PFAS in everything (which make the cure for cancer even more overdue) ; cars that got very much not flying but very bigger (and made the world hotter, and the fusion even more overdue) ; smartphone that makes spreading lies faster than even telepathy could ever do, etc...
But, now, sure, our flying drones are guided with "A", so the authoritarian régimes only have to point in a vague direction to get innocent people bombed.
No wonder "Yay, science" is getting a hard rep.
Thank the FSM you Americans decided to stop doing science altogether. Maybe the world needs to see that "bad research" is worse than "no research at all".
Last time we did that in Europe, it only lasted for 1000 years, and got us cool looking castles and dramatic paintings. So, art, I guess ?
Maybe it should!
There's so many technologies that we use today that derive from astronomy, space exploration and similar. We don't do a good job making that point to folks.