Oops! No need to call for Bruce Willis

[mahnmut]

Look out, incoming killer asteroid! Or is it..? Astronomers left red-faced after false alarm

Astronomers were left red-faced after accidentally confusing the European space probe Rosetta with a killer asteroid heading for Earth.

After spotting an unidentified object hurtling through space and due to fly worryingly close to Earth, space experts at the Minor Planet Centre, the group that scans the skies for incoming asteroids, were on the verge of issuing a worldwide warning of impending doom.

Emergency emails were prepared and astronomers worldwide prepared to tell us all the worst: that a deadly asteroid was due to skim our planet by only 3,500 miles and there was a very real risk that it might collide with Earth.  ...

The end of the world...not.

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

One of the comments below the article sums up my opinion pretty well:

Surely if it was a real asteroid they would be preparing for it years before it came near and would be able to tell us that we will all be ok as they have prepared emergency underground homes or some sort of life preserving method. They would not just say there ia an asteroid coming, sorry you will all die.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Ow ow ow... so much about death'n'doom :S

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

+1 :-)