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Doomsday Clock To Advance
Dik Zak writes "Many news sites are reporting that the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists intends to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock on Wednesday 17 January. The clock was started at seven minutes to midnight during the Cold War and has been moved forward or back at intervals, depending on the state of the world and the prospects for nuclear war. Midnight represents destruction by nuclear war. It is not revealed in which direction the hands of the clock will be moved, but it should be safe to assume that they will move closer to midnight: the magazine cites 'worsening nuclear [and] climate threats.' The clock stood at two minutes to midnight when both the United States and the Soviet Union tested nuclear weapons in 1953. The farthest away from midnight it ever got was 17 minutes, in 1991 when both superpowers signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. It currently stands at seven minutes to midnight."
That clock is seriously fucking gay. It takes it's orders from scientists for heavens sake. Not like my wrist watch which makes his own mind up about how close we are to nuclear armageddon.
Wait, Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House of the U.S. Congress.
Democrats are in control.
Rosie O'Donnell is getting major support in the media for her war against Donald Trump.
Steve Jobs got an illegal dump of stock options and the media and geeks have given him a free walk because other corporate scum said he didn't know. If Steve Jobs was running Enron and the same thing happened, what would geeks have said?
Microsoft MVP's, techies, and users of Vista are saying it sucks.
Bezo's is finally flying the Delta Clipper.
How can it possibly be getting closer to Doomsday?
Does this mean Duke Nukem Forever is closer to release?
Does this mean George Lucas is getting ready to release his Double Secret Special Editions?
Is Battlestar Galactica getting ready to be canceled?
Is William Shatner releasing his covers of Green Day?
Are the Seahawks actually going to take us all the way, and not leave us on the front porch on prom night with just half a copped feel?
Wow, closer to doomsday. You got to love George Bush and the Republican Do-Gooders. Maybe their whole drive is to hasten the Second Coming and start of the "Kingdom of Heaven"? (Can I choose a different Universe?)
Go ahead, classify this post.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
But you can go back to your world and sit there watching cartoons and pretending everybody loves everyone else and that we don't have the capability to destroy all life on earth.
No thanks, Nancy Pelosi is already taking care of that.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.