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[djellison]

Myself, Chris Lintott, and Peter Grindrod will be gathering at Sir Patrick Moore's house, Farthings in Selsey, on Sunday afternoon. The four of us will be Blogging, uStreaming and Youtubing our way through the night, pulling together any and every source of information we can find, previewing the events of the evening, and hopefully filling the gaps between NASA TV coverage. I'll also be making sure we 'stand down' during Emily's hour at JPL, as frankly, I want to watch it myself!

We've set up a blog to preview events and to be a home for the content we come up with on the big night - hopefully some of you will pop in and pass comment through the night! We will have more details closer to the time at http://www.marslive.co.uk

[dvandorn]

Ah, but... this whole discussion depends on accepting the concept of simultaneity. And in a relativistic universe, there is no such animal.

Until and unless anyone figures out how to propogate information faster than C, as far as our perceptions are concerned, nothing "occurs" until we perceive it.

So I'm an ERT kind of guy. I just don't accept that simultaneity is a valid concept...

edit: To put it more clearly, I don't think of events at Mars as happening ten minutes ago. I think of them as happening ten light-minutes away. For me, it's a function of distance, not time.

-the other Doug

[dmuller]

And in a relativistic universe, there is no such animal.

Aaah relativity ... so we should not look at all as we might kill Schroeder's cat, errrr NASA's Phoenix

nothing "occurs" until we perceive it.

but but we dont want the landing to simply "occur", we want to make it happen! So I'll be watching 15 mins 20 secs ahead of SCET because that's the last time we could make changes

Gee I'm glad I studied Economics after all. Relativistic theory with a pinch of salt is so much more fun.

Daniel