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Curiosity?

Did anyone stay up and watch Curiosity land? I feel like the only one in my group of friends. I managed to check Facebook and it's sadly devoid of all posts mentioning it except for mine. I even got a "What is the Curiosity Rover" comment by someone. However, it is full of posts about Jesus. I love the Bible Belt, or Mobile, AL for that matter. Anyway, I thought the entire process was amazing. I got home from work about 30 minutes before it entered the atmosphere, and watched it from that point until it sent its last picture. It was an amazing moment!

Tags: Curiosity, Mars, Rover

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Permalink Reply by TrueAtheist on August 6, 2012 at 9:43pm

I watched it. I got home right around the time you did at 10pm, 30 minutes before it landed.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Christie on August 7, 2012 at 1:17am

Hi Matthew, Yeah people on facebook aren't exactly on there for learning, more for just re-hashing there version of there party night, get a profile on Google + and add some science circles, will get loads of info regarding curiosity and many other things, I'm loving it for that purpose.

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Permalink Reply by Aldo Sepulveda on August 7, 2012 at 5:43pm

I woke up very early and decided to take a nap, i set my alarm to ten so i could watch the live stream from NASA TV, but i overslept and woke up much later, i was disappointed to have missed the event as it happened, but none the less the incoming pictures were exciting, to think how in less than a century we have already gone from sending a man into orbit to successfully landing an advanced rover on another planet, good things await in the future of space exploration!

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Permalink Reply by Ava Wilson on August 8, 2012 at 12:18pm

I watched the living crap out of that stuff, AND been keeping up with the pictures. Sunrise on Mars! So beautiful! The Curiosity landing simulation was absolutely spectacular. I completely nerdgasmed over the entire thing.

There are Atheists interested in science on Facebook, you just have to know where to look.

Here are a few science-inclined Facebook pages where these kinds of things are kept up on:

http://www.facebook.com/ProAtheism

http://www.facebook.com/WFLAtheism

I also posted a ton of content related to the Curiosity landing on my personal Facebook page.