The lyf so short

on October 13th, no wait, October 6th, which is tomorrow. (Linked removed due to potential phishiness.)

It's gonna "shake the entire planet", they say, but I expect we're not supposed to take that literally - as ladyelleth so aptly observed, if it were something catastrophic, they wouldn't have built a cutesy retro countdown page for it.

So! Hoax? Publicity gag? Life on other planets? A means for affordable space travel? EÄRENDIL? Come and speculate! Or we can just wait another 11 hours, of course.
I HOPE NASA ISN'T PURELY GOVERNMENT-FUNDED BECAUSE OTHERWISE, OOPS.

Yes, I know that's not a laughing matter. Excuse me, but I'm more busy weeping over the Lampedusa incident than I can be bothered to weep about pigheaded representatives of a people who'll run their country bankrupt and drag the world into Great Despression II 1/2. Pardon my German, but fickt Euch doch ins Knie.

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