Who else stayed up to see the Mars landing coverage? Tired but happy here today...

[NRaleighLiberal]

I found myself going to bed elated for the first time in a long time (as a Red Sox fan, that's been enough to send me to depressed more often than not since April...) - it was refreshing to have the renewed "can-do" spirit our country seemed to summon up more frequently before the right wing went off the deep end and we became so divided and just plain pissed off much of the time.

So what do we DU seers predict for this week? More Myth RMoney stonewalling, more MSM false equivalence, more GOP projection....with a dash of Olympics and some afternoon thundershowers??

Happy Monday, everyone!

[1-Old-Man]

1. I stayed up and watched it on the NASA channel. I was very much disappointed

I set the recorder to copy it just in case I nodded off. A bunch of yahoos in a big room all wearing blue shirts who could not stop hugging each other. After a couple of photos came in I erased the recording and went to bed.

PS Why does NASA have a TV channel?

[Logical]

12. Add "grumpy" in front of your name! I loved it!!! N-t

[aquart]

2. Mars. Why were the pictures so soul-deep satisfying?

Gave me a nice afterglow.

[malaise]

3. We were at a Bolt and 50th anniversary party

Just as well because we returned home to a power cut caused by an Ernesto lightning strike. Power returned close to 3.00am.
Give thanks for governments who support science.

[Rowdyboy]

4. I was right there with you watching just like I've done since Alan Shepard and John Glenn....

and still feeling like an excited 8 year old when they suceed!

[jp11]

5. Wanted to but fell asleep.

But I could fake those images.

Slap a transformer toy on top of my car, throw dirt at my backup camera voila I am on mars!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/06/humans-send-their-curiosity-to-mars/

[al bupp]

6. Right there w/ you, sir, on all counts

Watched the entrancing coverage from the JPL control room, and went to bed w/ a grin and a puff in the chest for US brain-power. As a fellow Red sox fan, don't get me started on this season.

Cheers!

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. I've been a Sox fan since 67, so frustration is nothing new...but this season takes the cake!

[kestrel91316]

8. Stayed up til 11 on the West Coast to watch it.

For some reason it was about the third most exciting aerospace even in my life (to me), first being the Apollo 11 landing, and second being the first shuttle launch.

Very exciting, and the computer graphics made all the difference in the world (oh yeah, and the two wild hair dudes, too).

[warrior1]

9. I stayed up.

[MuseRider]

10. It was wonderful!

My husband woke me up for it, I could not stay awake. So happy it made it. We have lots to look forward to.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. I did!

It was worth every second of missed sleep. *YAWN*

[MatthewStLouis]

13. I did!

[Tikki]

14. It was AMAZING..

Family of four watched here and munched on roasted peanuts...


The Tikkis