Science is shiny!

Not only did NASA manage to lower a one-tonne robot onto another planet using a sky-crane. They also managed to programme another robot three days in advance to take a photograph of this happening during the one-second interval when its camera would be pointed at the right spot.

I can understand people who think there are more important things to spend money on right now. (Although space science would be a very long way down my list of things to cut. Come back when you've got the US defence budget down to within an order of magnitude of what NASA gets, yes? Because that change will feed a lot of starving children.) But anyone who doesn't think it's an amazing achievement is beyond my comprehension.