[AccessD] OT: Space nerds

It was great for me - I managed to get and hold a very good HD stream from NASA TV, along with their live "Eyes on the Solar System" simmo of the landing.  That was bloody brilliant - the simmo was happening in real time and based on the feedback from the probe itself - amazing stuff - this is what I imagined the future would be like when I was kid.

I was at work watching on my twin PC monitors and excited the whole way - luckily I work in an office with 4 other nerdy tech guys - so we were all thrilled and watching.

Congrats to NASA, the USA - great work people

Cheers
Darryl

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Monday, 6 August 2012 9:43 PM
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. : )
>
>

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