The week's best viral news stories: 3 January 2013
Hold up, another doomsday is on the horizon
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Another apocalypse has been and gone. But, rest assure, the next death day is approaching. Very slowly approaching. In fact, it's in 300 billion years. On Dec. 4, 292,277,026,596. at 15:30 Coordinated Universal Time, the giant Unix (currently powering most computing systems) will reach its end and take us mere mortals along with it. Our very existence is already threatened by similar world-enders like global warming, nuclear war threat and tunes such as 'Gangnam Style' - we're not too sure we'll worry about this new threat too much.
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