Doomsday clock moved closer to midnight

[Murky]

Citing ongoing threats from nuclear proliferation, climate change, and the need to find sustainable and safe sources of energy, scientists moved the "Doomsday Clock" one minute closer to midnight on Tuesday.

The clock was moved from six to five minutes to midnight.

The clock is symbolic and has been maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947. The closer to a setting of midnight it gets, the closer it is estimated that a global disaster will occur.

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So what do you think? Time to stock up on food and ammo?

 

[amadeus]

Nope! This is just a good example of mission creep and a bunch of people wrapped up in feelings of self importance.

 

[NickyJ]

I think it's time he got rid of that ugly clock.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

I think it's time he got rid of that ugly clock.

May I suggest a digital clock?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

They are looking at it from the wrong perspective. If everybody has nukes there'll be no war because everybody can fight back with nukes.

 

[LucyDuke]

The world's going to hell? SHOCKER!

I for one blame kids these days.

 

[plarq]

I suggest a bomb detonation count down clock.

 

[Patroklos]

Eh, the bars don't close until 2.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Good on them I say . It's a totally unfashionable issue these days but make no mistake about it , eventually , while these weapons exist , there will be a nuclear war .

Sure it's a bit goofy with the big clock etc

 

[Silurian]

Changing a number on a board would not have the visual impact of moving the hand of a clock.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Especially if done by a guy who can barely move it.

 

[El_Machinae]

It's like spinning dinner plates. Spinning one (nuclear weapons) isn't too tough. We've mastered it. But soon available is bioterror. And meanwhile peak oil, peak fish, and extinctions are looming

 

[Save_Ferris]

Just because his life is going to end in ten years doesn't mean everyones' is...

 

[Traitorfish]

It's like spinning dinner plates. Spinning one (nuclear weapons) isn't too tough. We've mastered it. But soon available is bioterror. And meanwhile peak oil, peak fish, and extinctions are looming

As Slavoj Zizek says, we are very much "living in the end times". The question he poses, and a very worthy one, is what it is that actually ends- human civilisation full step, or our contemporary models of it? Perhaps not everyone will follow the thinking of a "communist in a qualified sense", but he at the very least raises some interesting points for consideration.


Link to video.

 

[Silurian]

Because his life is going to end in ten years does mean that he has no axe to grind.

 

[GenMarshall]

Damn it Iran, just give up building the bomb!

 

[woody60707]

lol, wait who are these people again? Are they experts in world ending events? They have a lot of experience in this?

 

[amadeus]

They're good at feeding into media frenzy. In return, the media frenzy fuels their egos.

 

[_random_]

lol, wait are they people again? Are they experts in world ending events? They have a lot of experience in this?

The guy in the picture looks old enough to have been one of the sons of Noah.

 

[amadeus]

I heard he really put a scare into the Pharaoh when he moved the sundial up a few minutes.