<i>For Dr. Everitt, who joined the Gravity Probe experiment in 1962 as a young postdoctoral fellow and has worked on nothing else since, the announcement on Wednesday capped a career-long journey.</i><p>There's something so profound about that.<p>To think of how many jobs I've held in my comparatively short life, how many minor career changes I've had here and there, how many massive shifts in interest and passion I've had over the years, and to hold these up beside someone who has <i>been wholly dedicated to the same singular goal since before I was even born</i>--that's just mind-boggling.<p>And it was selfless! This one singular goal to which he's dedicated himself, every one of the fifty years of work that went into it, ultimately ended up becoming--at least when boiled down to a headline--a footnote to someone else's greatness.<p><i>Five decades.</i> I can't even begin to fathom what sort of drive and passion and commitment that must require.<p>Bravo.