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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."
Kinda seems like /.'s becoming a slow motion Threat Down lately doesn't it? A bit of mindless fear mongering here, a touch of wry comedy there, end result: same either way.
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Does this mean George Lucas is getting ready to release his Double Secret Special Editions?
I want to see the special edition where Han goes back in time and kills Greedo's parents.
Han shoots first - waaaaaay first.
One thing though... when was the last time you knew a scientist that was a producer (Carl Sagan)... okay... who is still alive. And you can be sure that if Carl was still alive, he'd be right their helping Gore. Besides Carl Sagan, scientists hardly EVER make good producers and spokesman. But who fucking cares? Gore had a full team of scientists double-checking and tripple-checking every tidbit of information given in the movie, not to mention that the vast bulk of the movie is backed up by hundreds of published scientific journal articles. The fact that the person standing in front of the camera, or the person in charge of getting funding for the film isn't a scientist isn't just irrelivant, it's a no-brainer.
So, I'll re-itterate, the only reason why a scientist didn't make An Inconvenient Truth is because Carl Sagan is dead.
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