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theBrownfury writes: "The BBC is reporting here that
a very large Earth collision course asteroid has been discovered. This asteroid, NT7,
was first observed on July 5th and current data suggests an impact date of
February 1st, 2019. NT7 is 2kms wide and on date of impact will be approaching
Earth at 28km/s. An asteroid of this size is large enough to cause continent
wide destruction. However astronomers are still cautious in reporting this
asteroid as the orbit of NT7 has not been fully verified. Current data on
NT7's orbit suggests it orbits the Sun every 837 days and travels in a tilted
orbit from about the distance of Mars to just within the Earth's orbit." The BBC article's headline (and accompanying illustration) are more alarming than the story itself seems to warrant: this asteroid has been given a 0.06 on the Palermo technical scale, which means it shouldn't bump getting run over by a llama off your list of worries.
WERE ALL GONNA DIE!
Goddamit all to hell - where are my mod points! ROTFLMAO! (ASTC)
Off topic, but I have to know...
My computer's longest uptime is 12 hours. I've tried windows, redhat and mandrake. Windows has performed the best
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT POOR MACHINE???
3d stuff. It's driver problems, I'm nearly sure. I have an ATI All-in-wonder, but it's the 32meg Pro version. None of the drivers are specifically for that one. And it's 3d graphics that tend to lock it up. To be fair, it locks up lots under windows, too. But since windows runs anything I need it to, and Linux runs some of the things much better, I spend more time in windows. So the amount of time between the random crashes that linux has only served to reduce is bound to have been spent in windows. Recently I've been improving performance by removing the case and pointing a house-fan at it. Guess maybe it was a heat problem after all? Argh.
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It's funny because it's true.
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