Doomsday Clock set to 3 minutes to midnight

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http://www.livescience.com/49527-doomsday-clock-3-minutes-to-midnight.html?adbid=10152525383451761&adbpl=fb&adbpr=30478646760&cmpid=514627_20150122_39226707

 

I'm not sure what to make of this. It looks like another one of those conspiracies looking at all the bad stuff in the world and jumping to doomsday.

 

Discuss this below.

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

Heh. There seems to be at least two of these every year.

Nah. I don't think something like this will come to pass. It's always good to look at the good in the world. I like to think most people are normal folks who live normal lives like the rest the rest of us. We have bad eggs, but we shouldn't let them spoil the rest of the coop (I just thought of that metaphor )

[Untitled Goose Q 5,137]

I very much doubt there is such a doomsday clock in the first place, especially since this is the first I have heard about one supposedly existing.

[DemonicBox 58]

I think I prefer not to know when I die :/, I'd rather live my life in peace until I do die instead of freaking out for the rest of my life

[Banul 3,831]

Aren't we always at least 5 minutes to midnight? I've never put much stock in the doomsday clock.

[Wolfeus Silverpaw 301]

I want to know what this "3 minutes" equates to in actual time measures.

[zombienixon 330]

My interest will be piqued when it hits 2 Minutes to Midnight. I will then have an appropriate song to post.

[Creamy Arty 6,252]

For those who haven't read the article, they aren't saying that the world is supposed to end or anything of the sort at 11:57 PM.

 

 

 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists doesn't use the clock to make any real doomsday predictions. Rather, the clock is a visual metaphor to warn the public about how close the world is to a potentially civilization-ending catastrophe. Each year, the magazine's board analyzes threats to humanity's survival to decide where the Doomsday Clock's hands should be set.

 

What follows is an explanation of how they determine where to set the hands. It's entirely metaphorical, and a rather lousy one, imo.

[Wolfeus Silverpaw 301]

For those who haven't read the article, they aren't saying that the world is supposed to end or anything of the sort at 11:57 PM.

 

 

 

 

What follows is an explanation of how they determine where to set the hands. It's entirely metaphorical, and a rather lousy one, imo.

 

Yes, I was confused about that at first. They should set it to two minutes past midnight, in my opinion.

[Justin_Case001 4,903]

Who friggin cares about the doomsday clock?  When it reaches zero, you can just start a new game plus, anyway.

 

 

 

But seriously, I place no stock in stuff like this.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,162]

Wasn't the Doomsday Clock covered on a History Channel special once? Outside of that I've never heard of it, and honestly forgot about until I saw this thread.

 

As Silhouette said, it's just a lousy metaphor. Nothing more.

[Tilt 286]

The doomsday clock is about as fictional as Nostra Damus's cryptic predictions.

 

A clock doesn't go backwards either it just nuclear physicists trying to seem important.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

I never believed in Doomsday especially when the end of 2012 came I told all my friends it wasn't going to happen but now some people seemed to be convinced that the end of the world is suppose to happen on 2021

 

they can keep winding the Doomsday clock back up all they want we are still going to be just fine

[Invincible 2,091]

It's widely known that the technological growth of humanity, especially in the last century, has brought tremendous damage unto planet earth. Sadly, however, this is the reality. Reminding people how much closer we are to killing our world and everything on it isn't going to change it. Plus, i think that when one nation finally demands the end of another and decides to involve nukes, it won't come as a surprise to most people.

[Scrubbed user 3,416]

As previously mentioned, the Doomsday Clock is BS and not much more.