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[calaf]

Let me guess; it's an atomic clock.

[DieChecker]

[socrates.junior]

P-A-R-A-N-O-I-A.

[daavin]

sslama, on 15 January 2013 - 07:39 PM, said:

I guess the purpose of this is to remind the world we have very little time to rid the world of nuclear weapons, meet the challenges of global warming, etc.  Ronald Ragan could have done that when he was President but didn't.   Soon there will be nuclear bombs in every country.    I wonder if we have past the point of no return.  I like to be optimistic and say no but I'm not so sure.

IMHO we passed the point of no return regarding nuclear weapons the moment they were invented,  every weapon ever made eventually was available around the globe, either from trading for goods or helping an ally. The global distribution of nukes is inevitable, and I fear so is someone eventually using one again. Scary what wonders through my mind sometimes.

[RadicalX]

ALways SCARES me up...been following this clock over the last 5 years....tick tock tick tock

[TheSearcher]

DieChecker, on 16 January 2013 - 11:51 PM, said:

But, then that asks the question, will climate change... even the melting of both polar ice caps, really Wipe Out the human race? Isn't that the purpose of the Doomsday Clock? Measuring the time left till the Extinction of the human race. If it is only a measure till a "Disaster" then wasn't Climate Change going to happen anyway in 10,000 or 50,000 years? What qualifies as a Doomsday Clock "Disaster"? It was a lot simpler/cleaner when it was only a measure of the nuclear war possibility.

Makes you go hummmmmm......

The entire concept of doomsday clock makes me go Eerrmmmmmm anyways

[Andromedan Starseed 333]

another scheme to scare people and make money of the not so smart and the easily deceived people again!i can't blame them there the smart ones  and the not so smart ones are the ones that buy into the the whole doomsday scheme

[Wolfman 1993]

again with this?

[and then]

daavin, on 17 January 2013 - 05:40 AM, said:

IMHO we passed the point of no return regarding nuclear weapons the moment they were invented,  every weapon ever made eventually was available around the globe, either from trading for goods or helping an ally. The global distribution of nukes is inevitable, and I fear so is someone eventually using one again. Scary what wonders through my mind sometimes.

I read a book in my teens called AIRWAR by Edward Jablonski - a very good history of airpower in WWII. Referring to a flyover by all the allied aircraft involved in the war on the day of the signing in Tokyo Bay It ended with this Statement - "so the war ended, with all the weapons in place for the final world war" -   I think he got it right.

[Ad hoc]

I can't tell if the scientists involved are being incredibly patronizingly melodramatic, or incredibly arrogant about what they know about the world.

'the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists considered the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, the slow and costly recovery from events like Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and extreme weather events that fit in with a pattern of global warming.'

So the 'bulletin of atomic scientists' is basically just clutching at any highly debated issue-of-the-month to reinforce keeping their 'clock' at about the same dramatic position it's been at for the last however long.

How is it even a clock?? It's clearly not counting down actual time because it goes back and forth more than a modified DeLorean. Perhaps it should be the Doomsday Proximity Meter. Still BS though.