[AccessD] OT: Space nerds

It was an awesome moment. There's nothing better than watching a room full of geeks cheering:

http://i.imgur.com/iua4C.jpg

Hans


On 2012-08-06, at 6:30 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
> 
> 
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> 
> 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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