You know, because you should have to repeatedly prove you did not steal the product you paid for in order to keep using it. At Valve's discretion they will eventually discontinue the "service", leaving you with nothing. Have fun with that.
Pluto Express, due to arrive in 2015, is a flyby, and will only give us a 'snapshot' of Pluto. It would be nice to have something to observe Pluto's changing seasons over the next 200-odd years.
I won't pretend the hypothesis was accepted immediately but once the Yucatan crater was identified (by a satellite looking down, but that's more engineering than astronomy surely?) that was pretty much the clincher.
However it is good science where so-called 'separate' disciplines start working together, though it's pretty common. The Victorian-era divisions across science become more irrelevant daily, and only persist due to government and university funding models that still use them to determine grants allocation.
I thought the ending to the original Italian Job was pretty good, actually.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.