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Armageddon Update: ‘Doomsday Clock’ Stands at 2 Minutes to Midnight
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | January 25, 2018
Updated at 11:52 a.m.
The “Doomsday Clock,” a hypothetical timepiece that measures humanity’s proximity to destruction by our own actions, hovers perilously close to midnight, the time that denotes global Armageddon.
Today (Jan. 25), the clock has crept even closer to the zero hour. This morning, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) — an organization of science and policy experts who assess human scientific advancement and risk — revealed the clock’s new “time,” with the hands now standing at 2 minutes to midnight.
The time has only ever been this close to midnight in 1953, following hydrogen bomb tests by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., ushering in the era of the first nuclear arms race. In 2018, it reflects the breakdown of global efforts to reduce reliance on and risk of nuclear weapons; increased posturing and threats regarding the use of nuclear weapons; and an insufficient response worldwide to curb the impacts of climate change. [Apocalypse Now: The Gear You Need to Survive Doomsday]
It is not any one of those factors, but a combination of all of them — and the weakening of public faith in knowledgeable expert voices...
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Blah, blah, blah. Without copious expletives and the -tard word, I have no words. Well… maybe a few words…
We’re doomed because we have lost faith in the modern-day combination of Chicken Little and The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf… I think I’m good with that.
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Well, at least somebody in the main stream media sees the Doomsday Clock as hype.
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Why the Doomsday Clock is an idiotic indicator the world’s media should ignore
This year’s edition literally claims that if governments don’t police social media better, the world will be destroyed.
Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that they had moved their Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight, their most dire reading since the invention of the hydrogen bomb in 1953.
http://vancouversun.com/news/world/why-the-doomsday-clock-is-an-idiotic-indicator-the-worlds-media-should-ignore/
OT but obliquely relevant (clock). Has anyone seen this 10,000 year clock under construction? Fascinating in a pitiful kind of way.
http://longnow.org/clock/
Fascinating yes, a most creative way to seek immortality. Construction of mechanical monuments to mark the passage of time by producing pleasing vibrations in the audible spectrum. I hope they tune it naturally (A=432) instead of post-modern (A=440).
That was the aspect that struck me – rich people who have everything in this life aspiring for the one thing they can never control – immortality. A monumental (literally) exercise in futility like enumerable others throughout prior millennia. The more time changes, the more things remain the same.
If all goes as planned, a thousand generations can view a sphinx with a watch and bells, read the names of those who built it and wonder what life was like long ago.
BAT= UCS
*BAS = Union of Concerned Scientists. A collection of Leftwing activists. Yawwnn
Most of them aren’t and never were “scientists”.
Isn’t that the organization that Kenji joined?
The original 4 legged Kenji, not the poster to be named later.
I wonder if they’ll move it back a few seconds now after N Korea floated reunification with S Korea? Nah, probably not.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/21/friday-funny-a-nurses-guide-to-the-apocalypse/
Sometime ago someone put up a poster of “A nurses guide to the apocalypse”.
I can’t find it now.
Found it!
https://web.archive.org/web/20140316202958/http://www.thenursingbible.com/apocalypse/
In trying find the poster I’d forgotten to put up my quip!
As long as she’s around, we’re all good.
(A paper solution to a paper problem.)
Even the IPCC doesn’t try to push the meme that global warming is going to kill us all.
In fact they were never crazy enough to try to push that.
The acolytes on the other hand start at crazy and accelerate from there.
Unplug this clock. Time to put an end to this sad little propaganda exercise.
It is not 2 Minutes to Midnight.
It is 2 Minutes to Noon!
Well then, let’s go grab a sandwich.
The science behind the “Doomsday Clock” is 97% settled
58 minutes settled.
The clock is set at 2 minutes to midnight or 58 of 60 minutes, which is 97% … coincidence! or is it??
All these new ‘syndromes’ and mental conditions.
Is anyone affected by these other than Progressives?
Anybody here?
‘Cause I feel just fine.
Obviously you are suffering EFPIDS (Escaped From Progressive Indoctrination Derangement Syndrome).
They have a drug or a TV channel for that.
Have the Doomsday clowns forgotten the 1962 Cuban crisis? At school in the UK I remember all classes were suspended and everyone quietly listened to a radio to find out if a nuclear war was starting! Under a Democrat president still hailed as a hero for bringing us to the brink.
“2 Minutes To Midnight” IRON MAIDEN
Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don’t need a reason
The Golden Goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here’s my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death
The killer’s breed or the Demon’s seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
Don’t you pray for my soul anymore?
2 minutes to midnight,
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight,
To kill the unborn in the womb.
The blind men shout “Let the creatures out
We’ll show the unbelievers.”
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time Belsen feast … yeah!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.
The killer’s breed or the Demon’s seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
Don’t you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight,
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight,
To kill the unborn in the womb.
The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.
The killer’s breed or the Demon’s seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
Don’t you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight,
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight,
To kill the unborn in the womb.
Midnight
Midnight
Midnight
It’s all night
Midnight
Midnight
Midnight
It’s all night
Oh well, armageddon is only 2 minutes away so eat more red meat, give the V8 a bit more boot and crank up the aircon. Why even postulate what the climate will be doing in a 100 years time?
I’ll have to acknowledge the general hilarity here — the Doomsday Clock broke again on the day they issued a memo with a ranked list placing the threat of “climate change” above “nuclear war” — by offering this.
It is a little known fact that the Doomsday Clock is over 150 years old, and for many years was kept by the Masons and existed in secret at an undisclosed Lodge. On June 30, 1908, much to the surprise of the assembled in its chamber, the Doomsday Clock actually chimed midnight! Scaring the bejeezus out of everyone. Mystified them too because the whole idea of a minutes-to-midnight Doomsday Clock had been an old yarn because they had this broken clock and didn’t have the heart to toss it out.
Nervously they dragged the hands back from midnight and their brethren have been flicking it back and forth ever since. Until this old Russian film emerged no one knew why the clock had chimed.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I changed the music, its original music was contaminated by heavy metals. Also last year I changed the video’s title from “Bedtime Story” to “Bedtime Story – The First 100 Days of A Donald Trump Presidency” to troll for anti-Trump persons.
What puzzles me is the guys who work this out have openly stated a) that Trump is controlled by Putin and b) that under Trump a war with Russia is far more likely than it would be under Clinton.
Trump is unfit to lead. Period. And the clown car of incompetent sycophants who surround him can’t be trusted. It’s a sad day for America when you find yourself longing for the glib intellect of Dubya Bush and the moral fiber of Richard Nixon.
Considering the alternative, America did the right thing in the election.