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> The new COBOL is here to stay.

Very much. :) We have a javascript interpreter parked at the L2 Lagrange point.[1] As far as the preservation of human made artefacts go that is basically one of the safest places it can be. When us and all of our earthly possessions have long crumbled to dust that thing is still going to be out there. (Albeit very likely drifting without power around the sun.)

1: Event-driven James Webb Space Telescope Operations - https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2006-5747




Yeah, the disaster is borderline interplanetory. It will spread to Mars and Moon soon enough.




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