I don’t know about you, but the most exciting television I’ve watched this week was the “7 Minutes of Terror” as the Mars Curiosity Lander made its successful landing on the surface of Mars. There wasn’t much to watch – just a bunch of NASA dudes in blue shirts sitting in a boring looking mission control room. (Things looked way more interesting in the 1960s when NASA employees smoked and had sideburns.) Despite this, I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat as I waited for news about whether the landing had been successful, or if the lander had [...]