Three minutes till Midnight, The Doomsday Clock is now 23:57 - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Gwoodman;46988653]I can't be the only one that thinks this clock is total bullshit[/QUOTE] Its more bullshit now they include climate change in it. When it was nuclear tensions it kind of made sense.

Reset the clock

[QUOTE=NotMeh;46988851]How are there people unaware of the Doomsday Clock? we were taught about this in History class[/QUOTE] My history classes tended to focus on history. Not theoretical clocks.

Guys im scared, I want to get a life, Go to college, Get a family.

Wait, the doomsday y clock is a thing? I thought it was just something created in Watchmen

But what if the clock reaches 0:01? Does that mean we're safe forever?

A cleaner should go in and put it bang on 12:00

[QUOTE=dvc;46988726]heres a graph of its times on wikipedia [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg/1280px-Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg.png[/t] note how in the 50s its a minute to midnight, and it went waaaay back as time progressed. yeah its bullshit[/QUOTE] If only we could go back to the utopian peace of 1962/63 :(

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;46988609]Doesn't the world end at midnight or something?[/QUOTE] It basically means that a world war is unavoidable, most relate it to a nuclear holocaust, but in actuality the clock has very little to do with anything other than the news reporters reporting something

[QUOTE=Neckbird;46989042]arent there nobel laureates who have input on its setting? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbqQOf41Qc[/media][/QUOTE] One of my all time favorites that I've listened to countless times and I never knew it was about this doomsday clock thing and the end of the world, badass.

I always thought of the doomsday clock as a way the scientific community expresses their opinion and worries about current politics.

[QUOTE=Zoran;46988985]2 more and I have an excuse to post this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXp1C6Byd2E[/media][/QUOTE] One minute more and [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbqQOf41Qc[/media]

Should it ever reach 00:00 (unlikely) I will probably start rehearsing the shit out of this thing that has been stuck on my mind. Then if the sirens shall wail one last time, I will grab a megaphone, get in a monkey suit, run down to the pedestrian street(which is usually full of people at certain times of the day) and recite this: [quote]Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man's downfall - the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you...[B] now![/B][/quote] That or shit my pants and cry in a corner lying in fetal position. [editline]22nd January 2015[/editline] Thinking about it, if it was a false alarm and I wouldn't get vaporized the following minutes, it would make a good cringe video.

[QUOTE=Hawke7;46989878]I always thought of the doomsday clock as a way the scientific community expresses their opinion and worries about current politics.[/QUOTE] This, especially since now they apparently include climate change as a factor, which is obviously a more than legitimate concern. Certainly in relation to global nuclear war.

So is the world over yet

After reading the OP and wikipedia page (Summary) I still don't understand what this is about. Can someone clear this up for me? [editline]23rd January 2015[/editline] Like what happens if the clock reaches midnight or later? What is the point of the clock.

[QUOTE=dvc;46988726]heres a graph of its times on wikipedia [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg/1280px-Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg.png[/img] note how in the 50s its a minute to midnight, and it went waaaay back as time progressed. yeah its bullshit[/QUOTE] So what's the scale for this thing? Like midnight is total annihilation, cool, I get that, but where's the other end? Is complete world peace 23 hours and 59 minutes to midnight? Just how far away from total annihilation is the 17 minutes to midnight period from 91 to 95? Have we been teetering on the edge for the past 57 years according to this thing? Was any serious thought put into it at all or is it just a "Yeah you know things are kind shit right now but not as shit as they were last year so like one minute further away?" type deal?

Really the clock has become less of a symbol of imminent Armageddon since they started counting climate change progress as a main factor, ya climate change will be bad but its not going to wipe out mankind and everything else like a nuclear war will [editline]22nd January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Xonax;46992557]After reading the OP and wikipedia page (Summary) I still don't understand what this is about. Can someone clear this up for me? [editline]23rd January 2015[/editline] Like what happens if the clock reaches midnight or later? What is the point of the clock.[/QUOTE] Point is it was a thought experiment to represent how close the USSR and USA were to a nuclear exchange, closer the clock is to midnight the closer both sides are to an exchange. Its relevence in a post-cold war age has been in question, and recently they started counting global warming as grave a threat as nuclear war is, which while its an important subject nuclear war is total and irreversible, climate change isn't quite as dangerous or destructive as the entire nuclear arsenals of the west vs east [editline]23rd January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=dvc;46988726]heres a graph of its times on wikipedia [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg/1280px-Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg.png[/img] note how in the 50s its a minute to midnight, and it went waaaay back as time progressed. yeah its bullshit[/QUOTE] Gotta remember, this clock is very much a reflection of the short term trends, everybody thought when the Russians got nukes that they would use them right away, after all we boasted for a couple years and used our nukes as the ultimate deterant, it was a total shock to the west when Russia detonated their first bombs

[QUOTE=dvc;46988726]heres a graph of its times on wikipedia [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg/1280px-Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg.png[/img] note how in the 50s its a minute to midnight, and it went waaaay back as time progressed. yeah its bullshit[/QUOTE] the concept O your head

The twist is that the world already ended, and now we're being brought back because too many people complained the afterlife was far too boring.

I swear the Doomsday clock belongs in a Futurama episode.

[QUOTE=gk99;46992502]So is the world over yet[/QUOTE] It ended back in 1962. This is the afterlife, it didn't look all that different from the normal life after all.

So the clock advances, Are we up to terror alert orange too?

[QUOTE=Hawke7;46989878]I always thought of the doomsday clock as a way the scientific community expresses their opinion and worries about current politics.[/QUOTE] And some people here seem to think that it's some sort of literal clock haha