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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."
So, is that Eastern Standard Time?
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
Jack Bauer will disarm the russian ICBM 10^-23 second before it detonates, so we haven't got anything to worry about!
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
I'm sick of waiting for the return of my deity.
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Some superpower or another needs to preemptively attack and destroy this doomsday clock before it hurts someone.
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Suddenly I realize where the song title comes from.
I doubt there is an equation involved. But I think one look at today's front page of slashdot justifies moving the hands a little closer to midnight:
If these aren't a sure sign of the apocalypse (especially the last item), I don't know what is.
GMD
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Wouldn't this be a good reason to get rid of daylight savings time?
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That means those of us on Eastern Standard Time have already experienced Doomsday. (Psst, Central folk, his name is..., nah, let them experience it, too.)
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
They are (or, at least, were at the time) a slightly more serious threat than a Star Trek movie.
Come on... Star Trek, the early years? I'd rather be nuked.
How to Destroy the Earth
Meanwhile, the Who-Still-Gives-A-Flying-Fig-About-The-Doomsday-Cl ock Clock remains stuck on flashing 12:00
Damn, that means Doomsday will be tape-delayed on the west coast.
On that topic, amateur geocide watchers and fans of the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board will be reassured to learn that unlike the Nuclear Death Clock, the Current Earth-Destruction Status is expected to remain at its current status of "Not Destroyed" for the forseeable future.
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