Doomsday Clock creeps ever closer to midnight

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Every year, the scientist world watchers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists update the status of its Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for how near humanity is to meeting a catastrophic end. The closer to midnight that the minute hand moves, the bigger the threat. And the 2020 clock is the most dire warning to date.

In 1945, scientists from the University of Chicago who were involved in the development of the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project launched the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Two years later the group created the Doomsday Clock as an indicator of the threat level to humanity and the world we inhabit.

It has since become a symbol of our "vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains" that's recognized the world over. And every year, a decision is made on what to do with the minute hand on the countdown clock – move it closer to zero, to leave it where it is, or move it back.
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Doomsday Clock creeps ever closer to midnight

Every year, the scientist world watchers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists update the status of its Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for how near humanity is to meeting a catastrophic end. The closer to midnight that the minute hand moves, the bigger the threat. And the 2020 clock is the most dire…
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It would be really funny if they have to dial it back in a few years time because have run out of time and nothing has happened...

Every era seems to have its own set of doomsday prophets who predict the end of the world if society does not change its ways. Despite all their predictions about rising sea levels, global warming etc we are all still safe and sound.
 
Hephaestus said:
newatlas.com

Doomsday Clock creeps ever closer to midnight

Every year, the scientist world watchers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists update the status of its Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for how near humanity is to meeting a catastrophic end. The closer to midnight that the minute hand moves, the bigger the threat. And the 2020 clock is the most dire…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
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Nationalize it...
 
Hephaestus said:
newatlas.com

Doomsday Clock creeps ever closer to midnight

Every year, the scientist world watchers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists update the status of its Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for how near humanity is to meeting a catastrophic end. The closer to midnight that the minute hand moves, the bigger the threat. And the 2020 clock is the most dire…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
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Good. We should pay for those damages we did to Mother Gaia
 
The cold war has been over for 30 years, people have always found something to worry about.
 
Lupus said:
Oook it's symbolic they can set it to midnight and nothing will happen.
There were far more chances in the 60s for this thing to be inching midnight then now.
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you say that, but maybe in the 60's we would have had more warning, where people could scurry underground before the bombs fell, as they were big and heavy and the technology wasn't what it is today.

nowadays with ICBM's and MIRV that can target many cities, and weapons in the megaton ranges, many many times what Hiroshima was,

unless your outside the blast zone, unless you somehow avoided the fallout, and somehow survived everything else, the EMP, looting, riots and had enough supplies, and weren't torn apart by marauding gangs,
the environment and radiation might get you.
especially in the early years when nothing will grow, everything will be scavenged clean, even animals will die off, or will be too contaminated to eat.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
you say that, but maybe in the 60's we would have had more warning, where people could scurry underground before the bombs fell, as they were big and heavy and the technology wasn't what it is today.

nowadays with ICBM's and MIRV that can target many cities, and weapons in the megaton ranges, many many times what Hiroshima was,

unless your outside the blast zone, unless you somehow avoided the fallout, and somehow survived everything else, the EMP, looting, riots and had enough supplies, and weren't torn apart by marauding gangs,
the environment and radiation might get you.
especially in the early years when nothing will grow, everything will be scavenged clean, even animals will die off, or will be too contaminated to eat.
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We'd have more warning now, interconnected world and all.
 
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