You know, I was thinking about this, and I'm glad you replied, because I didn't want to reply to myself.
I recently read THE SWERVE by Stephen Greenblatt, about the discovery in the early 1400's by one Poggio Bracciolini of the only surviving transcipt of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ... On the Nature of Things. A fascinating tale, but I will try to progress to my point.
In the course of its telling the author comes upon Giordano Bruno, ultimately a martyr to free thought, and describes a work of his which mocked the idea of omniscient Providence, in which Bruno satirically described the god Mercury dictating the minutia of everyday existence "That Vasta, wife of Albbenzio Savolino, ... shall burn fifty seven hairs for having let the curling iron get too hot, ..." and so on.
This is deemed by the author as an expression of rebellion against an oppressive theology, as I suppose it was. Ironically though, your thoroughly modern correspondent has always been sympathetically contemplative of the idea that "even the hairs on your head are numbered". To me it is an expression of objective reality. There's nowhere to hide, you see. What is, is. So hew closely to it.
I thought of this in my chagrin at your cavalier dismissal of the entire Martian landscape as uninteresting. To me, this is supremely selfish and egotistical. Are you worth more than Mars? Do you have that many hairs on your head?
...at your cavalier dismissal of the entire Martian landscape as uninteresting.
I don't know how you got that out of what I said.
I asked you other than your technical challenges, did you enjoy the ROVER and the MARTIAN LANDSCAPE (... implying "as much as I did").
The fact that you can zoom in to the far horizon or to nearby rocks is awesome. Even IF it is not 100% realistic.
How did you come up with the idea I was 'dismissing the landscape'? You seem to be the one who is so focused on the minor imperfections, and missing the beautiful view, if we are to believe your comments.