On the 'doorstep of doom': Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight

[+Manwon Lender]

Doomsday is as close today as it was yesterday, according to a hypothetical timepiece known as the Doomsday Clock; for the second year in a row, the clock's hands hover at 100 seconds to midnight — the hour of humanity's destruction. However, it's still not too late to turn back the clock's hands and make the world safer for people worldwide, said "timekeepers" with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS). Representatives of the nonprofit announced the clock's new time on Thursday (Jan. 20), at a virtual press event, which you can watch on Live Science.

In 2020, the BAS moved the clock's hands to 100 seconds to midnight — the closest the clock's hands have come to doomsday in its 75-year history — and the hands stayed within the 2-minute-warning realm in 2021, Live Science previously reported. 

Find out more about the Doomsday Clock in a special episode of LIVE/science on Friday (Jan. 21) at 12 p.m. ET, featuring interviews with Hank Green and Suzet McKinney. The episode will stream here on the Live Science website, on YouTube and on Facebook. 

On the 'doorstep of doom': Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight | Live Science

 

[onlookerofmayhem]

 

[+Nuclear Wessel]

Not for much longer, unfortunately.

[jethrofloyd]

C'mon Dommy, go to the 60 seconds!

[+Manwon Lender]

Dam what a tough crowd!

[PJ47]

It seems to me this has been inching closer for the lat 50yrs, that I have been reading about the clock. Who has money on this or what the Hell let it rip