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"Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight
Arvisp writes to tell us that the symbolic "Doomsday Clock," designed to represent how close civilization is to catastrophic destruction, has been moved away from midnight. "First set at seven minutes to midnight, the clock has been moved only 18 times since its creation in 1947. The group, which includes more than a dozen Nobel laureates, last moved the hands of the clock in 2007, from seven to five minutes before midnight to reflect the threat of a 'second nuclear age' and the challenges presented by global warming. Today, at a press conference in New York, the Bulletin announced that despite the looming threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, it would move the hands of the clock from five to six minutes before midnight."
Holy pretentious old coots, batman!
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Just doesn't have the same sound.
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If humans first emerged 200,000 years ago, then six minutes left would indicate we have well over 800 years to go. We should be able to get off-planet by then. If humans emerged 50,000 years ago, then we have about 100 years, but I'll be dead by then anyway. Either way, I'm not worried.
Uhm...what?
Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think I've seen a more mangled sentence composed in English in a long time.
Well done, sir. Well done, indeed.
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That was exactly my point but you ... ah hem... beat me to it. Seriously, a textbook case of mental masturbation if there ever was one.
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Heh. Instead of *tick tock*, this clock goes *fap fap*.
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You mean like a session of congress?
...and for sixty years they've been wrong every time.
Cut them some slack, Jack. They've been right twice a day for the past six decades. That's a damn good track record if you ask me.
Climate change was included in the list. Do giant squids need to be added on now, too?
Or do giant squids make the clock go back?
You can't really take the Doomsday Clock seriously. Just look at its history: 7, 3, 2, 7, 12, 7, 10, 12, 9, 7, 4, 3, 6, 10, 17, 14, 9, 7, 5, and now 6.
Clearly, it was programmed by Microsoft.
He said _smart_ people...
Excuse me, wtf r u doin?
The people who say we're ~99.6% on the way to total world annihilation think the world is "rainbows and poppies"?
Enough 'poppies' and you can't help but see rainbows.
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rediculous.
Absolutely no one.
Lies. Bedwetting neocons sure as hell did.
You neglected full context.
Nobody with half a mind was afraid of Saddam either getting his hands on or developing a set of nukes. Absolutely no one.
This is how the nukes will end the world.
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There were still two, the first one was just in really, really small pieces, some of them transmuted.