500,000 times thank you (grazie)!

The post 2001: The aliens that almost were had a phenomenal, unexpected and unforeseen success, with 500,000 (yes, half a million) views. I would like to thank every single visitor, every comment here and elsewhere on the web (1,000 on reddit alone), and every person that shared the post on reddit.com, metafilter.com, daringfireball.net. thebrowser.com, rense.com, twitter, facebook and tumblr.