Freak'n awesome!
But I'm pissed!
I was one of few people who didn't see it "live", and actually got a spoiler that it had landed, ruining the entire thing.
I went to the Sydney Observatory to see it as they advertised a live feed and figured it would be cool to hand out with the pro crowd watching this.
But it was a debacle.
Was supposed to happen at 3:30pm Syd time of course, and they announced they would start the live feed at 3pm. Ok, fair enough. Then we just watched videos until about 3:25pm when they decided to turn the live feed on. Great, at least I'll get to watch it...
No Wifi, so I wasn't able to see anything much on my phone apart from Twitter.
Then things just seemed a bit strange, I heard one announcer on the feed say 22min until entry and figured the timeline got screwed by some issue or something.
Then decided to check twitter to see what's happening and I see the NASA tweet that it had landed! and twitter melted down.
So I and a guy next to me who was doing the same thing looked at each other whispering WTF just happened?
And then we realised the "live" feed we were watching was massively delayed, by at least 20min it turns out, so we had to sit there deflated and watch he "live" feed knowing the ending. I have no idea how it was delayed or where they were getting their feed from.
Experience totally ruined.
Then we got a tap on the shoulder to keep our mouth shut, and they admitted they knew it was already down.
I should have stay home.
Thumbs down to the Sydney Observatory, what a bunch of dickheads.
Dave.