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My god, the energy in that room was amazing. Just watching how happy they were was worth staying up late for.
by patdennis 14y ago
My god, the energy in that room was amazing. Just watching how happy they were was worth staying up late for.
- JabavuAdams 14y ago"Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
- noonespecial 14y agoOr another world, as it were, in this case.
- JumpCrisscross 14y agoI figured a paraphrasing along the lines of "Do you want to sell shiny phones..." or "Do you want to work on ways to share cat pictures..." would be more appropriate.
- andrewfelix 14y agoSo glad I watched. Anyone else hear the F bomb and 'Holy Shit'?
- jlgreco 14y agoI liked that bit. Drove home the humanity of the people who had just accomplished something that only a few thousand years ago was thought to be in the domain of gods. That we as a species have come so far but still retain our sense of self is fantastic.
- mikeleeorg 14y agoI loved the humor from the MarsCuriosity Twitter account too. http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity You could totally they were having a great time there.
- mladenkovacevic 14y agoMy favourite one is "Cruise stage separation complete. So long & thanks for all the navigation."
- InclinedPlane 14y agoHundred. A few hundred years ago.
- mattdeboard 14y agoEven still you're overestimating the science education -- or even the willingness to believe the science education they did receive is credible -- of modern society.
- jlgreco 14y agoDepressing, but true.
- rhplus 14y agoThere must've been some cathartic cursing in NASA mission control in 1969, right? They just didn't stream it live... http://www.theonion.com/articles/july-21-1969,10515/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/july-21-1969,10515/