WorldWideTelescope disses Silverlight?

Looks neat.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

What happened to Silverlight?????

As soon as you hit the main page, you are confronted (yes, I did say "confronted", or should I say "bullied") with this message:

This content requires the Adobe Flash Player and a browser with JavaScript enabled.

...if, of course, you don't have Flash installed.  I don't.  It's interesting really.  I just recently replaced my old laptop on April 18th, and I am JUST NOW needing Adobe's Flash Player.

I would really, really love to not have to install an Adobe product on my computer ever again -- but, this time it's Microsoft that's making me do it.  Shame, shame.

I have to say, though -- this is an amazing piece of technology.  Microsoft Research has earned their keep.