Robotic Telescopes, Linux, and RTML

skintigh2 writes "Robotic telescopes controlled by Remote Telescope Markup Language and Linux scripts, along with stationary telescopes, are searching the skies and have made many findings: comets, hundreds of asteroids, 60,000 potential variable stars, and more. Will Linux save the Earth from a planet killer, or will we get crushed while the collected data goes unanalyzed? Read more to find out how you can help."