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It's absolutely nuts that I can be viewing a high definition picture from another planet with my morning coffee. Sometimes I wish we didn't lose our sense of aw

It's absolutely nuts that I can be viewing a high definition picture from another planet with my morning coffee. Sometimes I wish we didn't lose our sense of awe so quickly. Every technological miracle we create quickly becomes a normal part of "every day life" so to speak.

gonzo41 5y ago
I was buying my morning coffee today and the person in front of me paid with their watch. Things are pretty amazing, you just got to keep looking for it.
- IndrekR 5y ago
  I am still amazed that going out and buying a morning coffee is a thing (that can seriously compete with home-brewing it).
  - JackFr 5y ago
    On Saturday morning I go and buy a cup of coffee and sit outside the shop and read the newspaper (physical paper) and watch people walk by. It’s really one of the pleasures of my week. (I then go home a brew a pot for me and my wife - who prefers to sleep in on Saturdays.)
    - sbarre 5y ago
      That sounds wonderful. It's still bitterly cold where I am in the world these days, and I look forward to also doing that in a few months. :-)
      - borepop 5y ago
        There's nowhere left near me at all that sells the New York Times, which was the paper I liked to read in physical form. Used to be a fun weekend ritual to pick up the Sunday edition from the coffee shop down the street and sit around reading things and doing the crossword, but I can't find it anymore. I'm not sure if it was covid that killed off the distribution or just the economics of print.
        booleandilemma 5y ago
        Anthony-G 5y ago
        Making those assumptions about IndrekR isn’t very fair. Like him/her, I brew my own coffee (using locally purchased beans) but I go out of my way to support local businesses. I haven’t bought anything from Amazon since 2010 and the only online purchases I’ve made in the last three years were FFP masks (I couldn’t find a local chemists who stocked them for some strange reason), RAM chips and an SSD drive (the local PC shops are gone). Having said that, I regretted paying €20 for a bicycle chain from a local bike shop (who weren’t particularly pleasant to deal with) when I could have purchased the same chain from an online retailer for €5.
        contingencies 5y ago
        Almost certainly the latter. The economics of distribution are extremely harsh. Fixed cost per site per day has to be covered by all parties and a profit. Say it costs USD$30 for a van stop at a place, idle the vehicle, unload the goods, and pay the driver then you need to sell a whole lotta newspapers to break even. The solution, if you enjoy print as I do, is to purchase longer term periodicals. Weekly news magazines are good. The New Yorker, Economist, etc. Smiles from China where we have no such options.
  - fs111 5y ago
    I think people believe that you need complex/expensive equipment for good coffee, but that's not true. Get yourself a grinder and a chemex and be happy!
    - aljgz 5y ago
      I think the prevalence of people buying morning coffee is a more complex phenomenon. 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.
      - wrycoder 5y ago
        Kopi Luwak with your Nasi Lemak, then?
      - toastal 5y ago
        Pour-over, single-origin coffee costs about 120฿ in Thailand, 3× street food as well. Cafés are often used for setting for social media photos as much as the coffee itself and they are popular—especially right after lunch. 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.
    - teitoklien 5y ago
      Chemex usually is a bit harder to get a nice cup of coffee consistently from, 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.
  - flyinglizard 5y ago
    It's a fun ritual. I go with my wife to get a coffee in the morning twice or three times a week. I pay with my watch, and we sometimes talk about astronomy.
iszomer 5y ago
I imagine with tons of post-processing back on Earth. Compare and contrast the Eagle Nebula from it's raw form enhanced with "false colors".
colechristensen 5y ago
One of the things motivating such progress is our ability to normalize everything. 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.
beamatronic 5y ago
I'm looking forward to the first "reality tv" shows produced on other planets (including the moon). You can probably fund a moon colony just on tourism and entertainment.
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gonzo41 5y ago

I was buying my morning coffee today and the person in front of me paid with their watch. Things are pretty amazing, you just got to keep looking for it.

IndrekR 5y ago
I am still amazed that going out and buying a morning coffee is a thing (that can seriously compete with home-brewing it).
- JackFr 5y ago
  On Saturday morning I go and buy a cup of coffee and sit outside the shop and read the newspaper (physical paper) and watch people walk by. It’s really one of the pleasures of my week. (I then go home a brew a pot for me and my wife - who prefers to sleep in on Saturdays.)
  - sbarre 5y ago
    That sounds wonderful. It's still bitterly cold where I am in the world these days, and I look forward to also doing that in a few months. :-)
    - borepop 5y ago
      There's nowhere left near me at all that sells the New York Times, which was the paper I liked to read in physical form. Used to be a fun weekend ritual to pick up the Sunday edition from the coffee shop down the street and sit around reading things and doing the crossword, but I can't find it anymore. I'm not sure if it was covid that killed off the distribution or just the economics of print.
      - booleandilemma 5y ago
        Anthony-G 5y ago
        Making those assumptions about IndrekR isn’t very fair. Like him/her, I brew my own coffee (using locally purchased beans) but I go out of my way to support local businesses. I haven’t bought anything from Amazon since 2010 and the only online purchases I’ve made in the last three years were FFP masks (I couldn’t find a local chemists who stocked them for some strange reason), RAM chips and an SSD drive (the local PC shops are gone). Having said that, I regretted paying €20 for a bicycle chain from a local bike shop (who weren’t particularly pleasant to deal with) when I could have purchased the same chain from an online retailer for €5.
      - contingencies 5y ago
        Almost certainly the latter. The economics of distribution are extremely harsh. Fixed cost per site per day has to be covered by all parties and a profit. Say it costs USD$30 for a van stop at a place, idle the vehicle, unload the goods, and pay the driver then you need to sell a whole lotta newspapers to break even. The solution, if you enjoy print as I do, is to purchase longer term periodicals. Weekly news magazines are good. The New Yorker, Economist, etc. Smiles from China where we have no such options.
- fs111 5y ago
  I think people believe that you need complex/expensive equipment for good coffee, but that's not true. Get yourself a grinder and a chemex and be happy!
  - aljgz 5y ago
    I think the prevalence of people buying morning coffee is a more complex phenomenon. 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.
    - wrycoder 5y ago
      Kopi Luwak with your Nasi Lemak, then?
    - toastal 5y ago
      Pour-over, single-origin coffee costs about 120฿ in Thailand, 3× street food as well. Cafés are often used for setting for social media photos as much as the coffee itself and they are popular—especially right after lunch. 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.
  - teitoklien 5y ago
    Chemex usually is a bit harder to get a nice cup of coffee consistently from, 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.
- flyinglizard 5y ago
  It's a fun ritual. I go with my wife to get a coffee in the morning twice or three times a week. I pay with my watch, and we sometimes talk about astronomy.

iszomer 5y ago

I imagine with tons of post-processing back on Earth. Compare and contrast the Eagle Nebula from it's raw form enhanced with "false colors".

colechristensen 5y ago

One of the things motivating such progress is our ability to normalize everything. 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.

beamatronic 5y ago

I'm looking forward to the first "reality tv" shows produced on other planets (including the moon). You can probably fund a moon colony just on tourism and entertainment.

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