Wednesday 6 June 2012

OMG! It's 2012 - let's announce a celestial tragedy expected in 4 billion years



Presuming no possible knock-on effect from a collision between Andromeda and The Milky Way, NASA has blithely announced this event scheduled for around 4 billion years’ time.
After all; by then climate change, population pressure, government inaction and the dominance of multinational corporations will have extinguished human life on Earth anyway and the Sun will have probably begun to die of its own accord.
But hey, the 24hr news cycle is alive and kicking right now – so let’s put out a press release!

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