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    Quote Originally Posted by GilpinGuy View Post
    Damn! The lady just said a link to view the raw footage. Anyone get the link address? I missed it.
    they are loading some on nasa.gov, but here's the raw feed: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw/ it's been crashing though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zip View Post
    they are loading some on nasa.gov, but here's the raw feed: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw/ it's been crashing though.
    There were 210,000 people on the livestream at touchdown, all of them and 3 of their friends are hitting that site at this moment

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    Earth First!
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    Man, I was elated watching the Mars landing, but now I'm depressed after watching that.

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    My family and I went to the Denver Museum of nature and science to watch this along with 1,300 others last night. It was absolutely amazing! Over all, we had about a 40% chance of making it to the surface, although, the US's success rate is about 73%. There are other countries on mars, but none of them would have made it without the help of the US. If there is any doubt about the US's science dominance, I would have to point out our new 1 ton asset now on mars!

    This project cost about $7 for every person living in the US. The price of a movie. Very worth it if you ask me!

    The event at the museum started at about 8:00 last night. It started out with interviews with engineers and scientists at the museum and then went to the NASA feed for the landing and the press conference that followed.

    I cannot share the feeling when it was announced that the rover had landed and the first pictures came up. It was a very good time.
    Mars is entirely inhabited by robots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ridge View Post
    FUCKING AMAZING

    I recorded the live CGI animation of it while having the livestream in the background. Will piece it together tomorrow and upload to youtube.

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    Nicely done Ridge. Thanks for putting that together.

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