Yeah I stayed up and watched the whole thing. Reminded me just a little of the Apollo 11 landing, which was the media event heart-stopper of all time. Sometimes poetry and art can come out science. That meticulously coordinated ballet of satellites and landers was an elegant performance by any measure.
I got access to it over the Internet, using a bunch of silicon chips that came out of the equally worthwhile technology investments from the Apollo program. To penny pinching parties I would say, these technologies and infrastructures could have national security significance down the road, and I'm glad there was this opportunity to push those important capabilities forward. To everybody else, if we ever stop doing that kind of high concept stuff our minds will begin to resemble those of farm animals.
I'm really looking forward to the scientific results, which regardless of their character will have philosophical implications that will be somewhere between interesting and mind boggling. But in any case, I've already got my $7.00 worth, what a show! Anything more is gravy.
