Uh-oh... we're all going to die...

[Hikaru79]

You probably all read Slashdot anyway, but in case some of you don't, check out the latest post in my blog, here: http://blog.thegoban.com

Not good news :(

[eldrich_rebello]

well.startling stuff.but no reason to panic.change from your dirty olw ways befors it's too late.

[Lovechild]

everyone dies.. news at 11.

[orion_114]

Maybe we should send bruce willis and ben aflec up there to sort the asteroid out ! :p

[panickedthumb]

maybe in a few years there'll be technology to destroy it and we won't have to send up deep-core drillers. Though one funny outtake from Armageddon...
"We'll send in Bruce Willis, the best deep-core driller in my ***!" - Billy Bob Thornton

[machiner]

It's not going to hit us. If it did, it's not large enough to devestate the population, or the planet.

YA -- it's BIG -- but the devestation will be regional - perhaps a tsunami.

I'm not happy about it - we just made a mess of kids - but it's not the "end-all-be-all" event sensationalists think it is.

.. or is it...



mu hahahahahahahha

[BWF89]

I wonder how this will effect FOSS, BSD, and the Linux operating systems?

EDIT: Mabye it will hit Redmond, Washington and wipe the Earth of all it's evil ways :D !

[panickedthumb]

*L* WHO CARES??????? You're talking lives lost here, I think this is the least of our worries, don't you? Maybe it'll kill Linus, maybe it'll kill Mark Shuttleworth, maybe it'll kill Bill Gates, and either Linux in general, Ubuntu, or Microsoft will take huge hits. Number one, speculating on this now is frivolous. Number two, I care pretty deeply about software, but when it comes to loss of human life don't you think the state of software after millons of people are dead is a little petty? I can just see the CNN headlines now... "The death toll continues to grow, now that new bodies have been found in Greece. This brings the total number of deaths to 40 million. In other news, Karen Hughes, who was so distraught from losing her entire extended family, was left without any source of income since her veterinary clinic is in pieces, so she couldn't afford a Windows upgrade so she switched to Linux." Sorry if I'm being overly sarcastic here, but it just struck me as perhaps one of the most unimportant aspects of part of the world getting blown up.

[shimon]

wtf you go die i'm going to live

[BWF89]

It was a joke...

[shimon]

It was a joke...
what joke the only thing here thats a joke is what i quoted now go and die

[mark]

From CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/12/29/asteroid.ap/index.html) Okay, everybody stand down now...it appears that neither lives nor Linux are in any danger from 2004 MN4...