[21twelve]

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)

[JRandomFreeper]

it sounds like they WERE betting on some of the landing parameters.

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

[JRandomFreeper]

On a more serious note, I was impressed with the numbers they read for vertical and horizontal velocity (rounding to the nearest whole digit, since I wasn't in the betting pool).

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