There's a moment in a Gabriel García Márquez novel where the villagers are completely unimpressed by the invention of the airplane as they had all already tried

There's a moment in a Gabriel García Márquez novel where the villagers are completely unimpressed by the invention of the airplane as they had all already tried out the flying carpet in the county fair and in comparison the airplane looked cumbersome. This article reads like someone complaining that their cool science work will not get the public recognition they think they deserve because the common standard for alien discoveries is way too high. > "Powerful telescopes that will soon be operational may be capable of detecting city lights on the night side of planets that orbit distant stars" Hopefully that "may" is not carrying too much load as this would be incredibly cool.