Landed!

[anansi133]

I went to the Being Museum of flight to watch the feed from JPL. The place was packed! As many people crowded the lobby as were in the theater. As the landing sequence ticked off, each succesful benchmark brought more excited applause. And then finally it was down safe. Curiosity seems healthy, a nominal landing, nothing abnormal at all.

My only qubble was the health conscious substitution of roast salted peunuts instead of the M&M candies that JPL has traditionally celebrated with. In classic newspeak style, this is supposedly a tradition that had always been done with peanuts. As if a simple factual thing like that couln't be checked on. Ugh! I love some of the things my country does, even as I loath the ways in which they are done.