no, but the rover was long before they got the radio feed
I understand why they are commenting this way, as it adds to the drama and immediacy and makes it look like the events are something they can react to, which of course they can't as they're 10 minutes behind. But they could just have easily have used a neutral passive-voice like they did on the apollo mission control. Instead of "our current velocity is" like a BA pilot telling you the duty free is coming round, they could just say "velocity is x" "Parachute deployed" etc
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cumquat may will now guess the date while blindfolded. Is it, Tue 23 Feb 2021, 9:52,
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Yeah, but the moon is only 1.3 seconds away.
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jonbob sporadically communicating from wikiholes unknown, Tue 23 Feb 2021, 11:20,
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exactly, and they still used passive voice
"the eagle has landed" sounds better than "hey, we are touching down now"
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cumquat may will now guess the date while blindfolded. Is it, Tue 23 Feb 2021, 11:26,
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