I was at least able to pull someone in my family from the boob-tube to watch it - my 14 year-old daughter. Pretty cool to have her see scientists and explorers see the fruits of their HUGE efforts.
Ha - it sounds like they WERE betting on some of the landing parameters. (landing velocity of 0.14 g - congrats Alex)
Ya think. ;)
Humans are human. My science mind was listening to the numbers and then my cook mind yelled: zero point anything is pretty much zero, ain't it? Whazzap with 5 decimal places?
And then I saw the reactions of the crew.
Yep. Betting pool. Folks will be folks.
/johnny
JPL did good.
There are days I can't move a box across the room and set it down within those parameters. They did it 130M miles away by remote control. They rock.
/johnny