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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard

Posted by samzenpus on from the for-your-viewing-pleasure dept.

Lasrick writes You probably know the hand on the Doomsday Clock now rests at 3 minutes to midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has launched a pretty cool little interactive Dashboard that lets you see data that the Bulletin's Science and Security Board considers when making the decision on the Clock's time each year. There are interactive graphs that show global nuclear arsenals, nuclear material security breaches, and how much weapons-grade plutonium and uranium is stored (and where). The climate change section features graphs of global sea level rise over time, Arctic sea ice minimums. atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and differences in global temperature. There's also a section for research on biosecurity and emerging technologies.

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  1. Not comprehensive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure, they added climate change to try to stay relevant when nuclear stockpiles plunged, but there are so many possible doomsdays they ignore entirely.
    I see nothing about zombies on the site, for example.

    1. Re:Not comprehensive by davester666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Typically, the citizens wind up spending all their time messaging each other on their cell phones, and ninja's sneak up behind them and kill them.

      Haven't you seen ANY documentaries on the fall of the roman empire?

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  2. spring forward by turkeydance · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's an HOUR and 3 minutes until midnight.

  3. Clock you say? by danbert8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if the earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old and this clock is representing a day between creation and doomsday... Hmm, 1440 minutes in a day, 3 minutes till midnight... Carry the two...

    We can expect the Earth to exist for another 9.5 million years!

    Whew... I was about to panic.

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  4. Nuclear Material Incidents by Thanshin · · Score: 3, Funny

    7 - Unknown.

    I wonder how these come to happen.

    "Captain Johnson! Where the fuck are the two tons of plutonium you left the base with!"
    *shrugs* "No idea."
    "WHAT!"
    "NO IDEA. SIR!"
    "Ok, that's better. Try to be more careful with the next plutonium truck. Shit ain't growing on trees, you know?"