NASA's Curiosity Lands tonight!

[Cory the Otter]

After a year of hurtling through space, our little science-bot will be landing today using some weird rocket contraption.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

[VonMudra]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!  <squees science juice>

[Eat Uranium]

Basically, it is going to go wrong.  Gotta set your sights low with Mars exploration - 50% success rate.

[Steel_Lion_FIN]

And still, not a single fuck is given.

[[130.Pz]S.Lainer]

I can't wait!

Coverage starts at 11:30 EST here:  http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

I think I am going to fuck about and play some Battlefield and drop a couple cans of classy malt liquor until about an hour before touchdown.

[Nerdsturm]

Basically, it is going to go wrong.  Gotta set your sights low with Mars exploration - 50% success rate.

The landing system for this thing is insanely complicated too, due to its large size. All we can do is hope for the best though.

[GooGeL]

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/
Another stream.

[FORGOTTENKEVINOHOPE]

favorite one  =  #31  crashed due to imperial/metric unit mixup   

[Lightning]

Oooh, how exciting.

EDIT: Touchdown confirmed!

[VonMudra]

And they did it!!!!!

[Wilhelm]

That was simply amazing! Seeing those first images come in live was awesome!

 Congratulations NASA! 

[th_battleaxe]

Honestly, I didn't think they were going to succeed such a hair-brained plan, but they did it.
I take my bearskin off to them

[[130.Pz]S.Lainer]

    Loved it.....Well worth the late night and alcohol abuse.

[FORGOTTENKEVINOHOPE]

    Loved it.....Well worth the late night and alcohol abuse.

you just live in the wrong timezone 

[[130.Pz]S.Lainer]

    Loved it.....Well worth the late night and alcohol abuse.

you just live in the wrong timezone 

Meh it was worth it.....I remember as a lad my old man working two jobs as craftsman on yachts and as a policeman skipping work just to watch a shuttle launch live in the 80's.  I guess getting drunk as fuck and staying up late is the least I can do.