Doomsday Clock Could Move

[DamianTV]

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/1...ock-could-move

The ominous minute hand of the 'Doomsday Clock' has been fixed at 5 minutes to midnight for the past three years. But it could move tomorrow. The clock is a visual metaphor that was created nearly 70 years ago by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, whose Board of Governors boasts 18 Nobel laureates. Each year, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board assesses threats to humanity — with special attention to nuclear warheads and climate change — to decide whether the Doomsday Clock needs an adjustment. The event will be streamed live from the Bulletin's website at 11 am EST.

Technically, this should be later this morning if anyone wants to post which direction it officially went. Its not like we need Psychic(o) Sylvia Brown to know it is going in the WRONG direction.

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UPDATE: MOVED CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT, THREE MINUTES AND COUNTING...

[Ronin Truth]

Where is it located now?

[DamianTV]

Where is it located now?

5 minutes to midnight (midnight = apocolypse) and last time it was moved, it was moved closer to midnight.

Problem is that most people are totally unaware that WWIII has already started, but since it isnt "officially declared", no one pays any attention to it. And people are dying en-masse. Only reason we dont call it a World War yet is because no nukes have been launched either. Keep in mind we still have "missing nukes". World War III is a Proxy War only until such time that it is officially declared, and by then, it is too late.

[Ronin Truth]

5 minutes to midnight (midnight = apocolypse) and last time it was moved, it was moved closer to midnight.

Problem is that most people are totally unaware that WWIII has already started, but since it isnt "officially declared", no one pays any attention to it. And people are dying en-masse. Only reason we dont call it a World War yet is because no nukes have been launched either. Keep in mind we still have "missing nukes". World War III is a Proxy War only until such time that it is officially declared, and by then, it is too late.

Thanks for the info and update.

I was just making a lame joke.

Boston? Denver? Baton Rouge? Etc.?

[Suzanimal]

Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight

The world is closer to doomsday.

That's the message from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which moved its iconic Doomsday Clock up two minutes on Thursday. The clock now stands at three minutes to midnight, the "latest" it's been since 1984, when the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union was a major issue.

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/us/fea...utes-midnight/

[Danke]

Thanks for the info and update.

I was just making a lame joke.

Boston? Denver? Baton Rouge? Etc.?

In the War Room.

[TomKat]

5 minutes to midnight (midnight = apocolypse) and last time it was moved, it was moved closer to midnight.

Problem is that most people are totally unaware that WWIII has already started, but since it isnt "officially declared", no one pays any attention to it. And people are dying en-masse. Only reason we dont call it a World War yet is because no nukes have been launched either. Keep in mind we still have "missing nukes". World War III is a Proxy War only until such time that it is officially declared, and by then, it is too late.

That's not correct, a world war is....... oh nevermind. We got that!

A world war is a war involving some of the world's most powerful and populous countries. World wars span multiple countries on multiple continents, with battles fought in multiple theaters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war

[Zippyjuan]

In the War Room.

Not the War Room!

[Matt Collins]

This whole thing is just silly... I watched an entire documentary on the Doomsday Clock once and maybe when the world was a bi-polar place it made sense, now it is just kind of meaningless.

[PaulConventionWV]

Be afraid... be VERY afraid!

Of climate change, of course!

[JK/SEA]

This whole thing is just silly... I watched an entire documentary on the Doomsday Clock once and maybe when the world was a bi-polar place it made sense, now it is just kind of meaningless.

you haven't talked to Al Gore yet have you?

[TheCount]

Keep in mind we still have "missing nukes"

Do you mean the missing nukes that were used to take down the WTC, or the missing nukes that Obama detonated off the coast of South Carolina?

[DamianTV]

Do you mean the missing nukes that were used to take down the WTC, or the missing nukes that Obama detonated off the coast of South Carolina?

Those are the ones we know about.

I'll hope everyone does know that a Nuke was dropped by the US on US soil, right? The Nuke did not detonate, but three of the four safety mechanisms designed to prevent accidental detonation failed completely. Other side of the coin is that these Nukes have to be tested. There have been about 2000 Manmade Nuclear Detonations on planet Earth, but we are still here.

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If I recall correctly, so please correct me if I am wrong, when this Doomsday Clock thing first started, wasnt it started at 15 Minutes to Midnight? Now we are down to just THREE? If it was your call to set the time on the clock, where would you put it? Seven Minutes? Ten Minuets? I'll enter my vote and put it at One Minute Thirty Seconds. But how about everyone else? What time would you set the Doomsday Clock to?

[PaulConventionWV]

Do you mean the missing nukes that were used to take down the WTC, or the missing nukes that Obama detonated off the coast of South Carolina?

Are you really saying that somebody nuked the WTC? If so, I think most of NY would be gone, not just 3 buildings (and maybe a few smaller ones). And when have nukes been detonated off the coast of South Carolina? How far off the coast? I think we would have known about it. This is truly bizarre stuff you're saying.

[Zippyjuan]

Are you really saying that somebody nuked the WTC? If so, I think most of NY would be gone, not just 3 buildings (and maybe a few smaller ones). And when have nukes been detonated off the coast of South Carolina? How far off the coast? I think we would have known about it. This is truly bizarre stuff you're saying.

Veterans Today says they did just that. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05...s-nuked-on-911

(and yet they still sometimes get cited as a serious source!)

[Working Poor]

Be afraid... be VERY afraid!

Of climate change, of course!

Yea well a nuke would change the weather wouldn't it?

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

Veterans Today says they did just that. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05...s-nuked-on-911

(and yet they still sometimes get cited as a serious source!)

I'm not familiar with the site, or who quotes them or why, but a source making claim X that was stupid and wrong has no bearing on the validity of claim Y made by the same source.

[Zippyjuan]

That's OK. Their editor Gordon Duff has admitted that what he publishes is mostly false. He said 30% of his stuff is outright lies and a further 40% is at least partially false.

(Israel has a killer laser- armed aged 707 refueling tanker was another story).