[AccessD] OT: Space nerds

I'm just glad Access wasn't running the show.

"Access has closed" just as the chute is about to open...

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 8/6/2012 11:49 AM, Tina Norris Fields wrote:
> It really is amazing!  Just think of the calculations they had to get right.  How about the logic?
> I'm so happy everything went so well.
> T
>
> Tina Norris Fields
> tinanfields at torchlake.com
> 231-322-2787
>
> On 8/6/2012 9:30 AM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
>> I watched the NASA site with only a couple of buffer delays.  But then I'm a
>> lot closer to JPL so probably first in line. :)
>>
>> Quite extraordinary when you think of all the things that could have gone
>> wrong.
>>
>> Rocky
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
>> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 4:43 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Space nerds
>>
>> LOL.  I had the feed all set up and working.  I went to bed at 09:30 PM and
>> woke back up at 12:45 AM to start watching.  I had several instances of
>> firefox open on various feeds.  Closed down one that supposedly had nothing
>> to do with the feed and EVERY INSTANCE of firefox closed!.  Then the server
>> was overloaded and I couldn't get back in!
>>
>> I could NOT get back in.  I ended up watching some guys at some university
>> discussing what was happening and occasionally switching to show me the feed
>> I had been watching direct.
>>
>> I have rarely been so pissed!
>>
>> But hey, the landing worked!  We are back on Mars with the most powerful
>> laboratory ever.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> Colby Consulting
>>
>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
>>
>> On 8/5/2012 11:53 PM, Darryl Collins wrote:
>>> Landing on Mars in a couple of hours...
>>>
>>> <<http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html>>
>>>
>>> Watching from work via Nasa TV - gotta love the net. : )
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> AccessD mailing list
>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
>>
>