Mars Rover Launch

[Pat Mustard]

I watched the feed and was looking at the chat box, always amazed at the ignorance of some of the comments, like "I hope the astronauts are ok" or "why is there smoke coming off it, is it on fire?"
I would think that if the go to the trouble of watching it they should have some understanding about what they are seeing.

Unrelated to getting stuff onto Mars, but I was once sat on the opposite aisle of a well dressed businesswoman on a propeller plane between Dublin and Cardiff who, half way through the flight, asked the flight attendant, in all seriousness, "When are they going to turn the engines off? They're very loud".

The flight attendant was speechless, literally, for about fifteen seconds before saying "we, ah, need them to stay in the air".