[AccessD] OT: Space nerds

Oooooooooooh, OUCH!
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787

On 8/6/2012 1:51 PM, jwcolby wrote:
> 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
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>>> 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. : )
>>>>
>>>>
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