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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Can't believe I'm taking Sliver's side, but I see his point (and consider it a failing of society).
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Yup for sure, hence the winky. We're all conditioned for better faster.. Newspapers to TV to YouTube to TikTok.. if I'm not entertained in 30 seconds or 280 characters I'm out.
I mean we SHOULD have learned by now that progress looks like this:
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We went from first flight to moon landing.. then from moon landing to.. well we haven't even been back to the moon. We can, but it wouldn't be much different than the first time.
The further you progress the harder the next step of progression is.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
I'm being victim blamed! I'm the victim of Big Science setting my expectations super high on what to expect here. It's like looking at a hubble image where they twiddled the knob a little to the right to get a crisper image.
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Even just a crisper image can result in significant discoveries.. open the biggest version of that image and the detail in the dust is incredible, they'll be able to do all kinds of analysis on the features in the dust to learn things we simply couldn't learn before.
So I do get what you are saying, and the payoff for most people is going to be just what you say.. nicer pictures. The real payoff will be the science that we can do on those pictures with data that didn't exist before.