This Isn't Your Father's Mars Landing; Or, How I Went From

[kestrel91316]

Watching Apollo 11 In Grainy Black And White To Watching Curiosity Live On The Internet

I was just sitting around eating a brownie and thinking I should see what the tubes have on this new rover landing, and DU kindly provided me this link:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

I'm not sure if the meds in the brownie kicked in and wowed me, or it's just incredibly exciting, but I just had to say something about the marvelous live coverage from NASA:

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I can't post this link enough:

It's not just the brownie. It's incredibly exciting.

[sarge43]

15. This is the golden age of planetary exploration and we watch it in real time.

Absolutely freaking amazing.

If Curiosity discovers any credible evidence of life on Mars, past or present, that will change everything.

[kestrel91316]

2. And fundie heads surely must be asplodin'

at NASA's many references to the environment, and the age of the solar system, and related blasphemies..........

Whatever will they do if we find life on Mars?????

[DBoon]

3. Not just the fundies

What would David Bowie say?

[Gman]

4. Ain't it a marvel?

incredible when you think about it.

[kestrel91316]

5. Ok, NASA, when did you start hiring teenagers and

trying to fool us by overdubbing them with baritone adult voices????

(headdesk)

[SnohoDem]

6. Are NASA's servers overloaded?

I'm in SE Asia but just tested a connection to Palo Alto CA and have a 26 ms ping and a solid 3 MB download speed, but I can't get more than 3 - 5 seconds of video without a 5+ second pause.

Problems aside, this is TOO cool!

[kestrel91316]

7. Mine's not laggy at all. I don't know my download speed,

but I have AT&T DSL FWIW.

[SnohoDem]

11. Thanks,

I just wondered.

It's choppy, but I can live with it.

[nenagh]

8. Thanks for the link..

Amazing...

[HubertHeaver]

9. overloaded?

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[CherokeeDem]

10. CNN is carrying it now...nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. That was amazing.

[NBachers]

13. Thanks for the link. It was a bit laggy at first, but I tuned in on NASA TV. Link's good now.

Touchdown!

[Justice wanted]

14. Well said.