Man, that was fun to watch. What a bunch of ecstatically happy folks. I've never seen so many people hugging so many other people. There must have been 10 minutes straight of hugs and high-fives after they got the first telemetry back that Curiosity had landed safely.
Wonderful headline on the NYTimes Lede live blog of the landing, on the item explaining that it takes 14 minutes for the data to get from Mars back to earth, so they didn't know the landing was successful until 14 minutes later: "Whatever Has Happened Has Already Happened." --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@...> wrote: > > Cheers! > > http://news.yahoo.com/abc-news-live-stream-coverage-20120309.html >
