I remarked earlier to my flatmate how much it said about our society that this wasn't the top item on all the major news sites. At least it's the first thing on Hacker News.
I've seen a bunch of articles before this one, with headlines that make it seem like photos have been taken of planets in other solar-systems. On closer inspection they've often turned out to be artists' impressions, computer renderings, or similar things.
The net result is that today, when I saw this article, my reaction was a mix of "didn't that happen already?" and "are they real photos?".
Suits believe they are progressing things. And the rest will always credit the nearest authoritative looking type.
Worse still, many scientist and engineers credit the suits themselves.
I'm saying, "Suits are overvalued. And nerds are undervalued even by themselves. That's always been true with periodic exceptions."
And I don't mean "suits" as a pejorative; I'm not using it in contempt. It's a fact that people of that class wear them.
Actually, I like wearing them.