Doomsday clock hands moved from 7 to 5 minutes

[bdfreetuna]

When Henry Kissenger finally kicks the bucket the clock goes back an hour or two..

[Todd]

My question is who\'s the tard going to be that takes the time to set the clock to midnight during the "final epidode"

[skalnbyc]

My question is who\'s the tard going to be that takes the time to set the clock to midnight during the "final epidode"

Final Episode from The Breakfast:  Episode 32 (Nuclear Winter)

[FrankZappa]

Robyn... basically what happens is... every time they move the hand.... 50 kittens are used for nuclear testing purposes.

Thanks Pandora.

This is actually one of the cool things about working at espn. We can pull in any feed world wide, news, sports, otherwise, etc. I\'ll have to call up transmission and get both the london and washington feeds coming into the plant so I can watch the whole thing live. I hate having my news broken up into digestable country-specific-propagandized 1 minute sound bites.

[Jim Cobb]

^post that.

2 minutes to midnight also popped into my head as soon as i read this.

[FrankZappa]

My question is who\'s the tard going to be that takes the time to set the clock to midnight during the "final epidode"

[Todd]

<<< unreachable!!!

[obsession600]

how did this thread get this far without this?

[Jim Cobb]

thank you sir.

[FrankZappa]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" will likely move its hands forward next Wednesday to reflect what they call "worsening nuclear (and) climate threats," to the world.

The symbolic clock, maintained by a magazine called the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, is currently set at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe.

The group plans to publicly adjust the clock this Wednesday.

Though the group has not specifically said so, all indications are that they will move the clock hands closer to midnight.

"The major new step reflects growing concerns about a \'Second Nuclear Age\' marked by grave threats, including: nuclear ambitions in Iran and North Korea, unsecured nuclear materials in Russia and elsewhere, the continuing \'launch-ready\' status of 2,000 of the 25,000 nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and Russia, escalating terrorism, and new pressure from climate change for expanded civilian nuclear power that could increase proliferation risks," said a news release from the group.

The clock was last pushed forward by two minutes to seven minutes to midnight in 2002 amid concerns about the proliferation of nuclear, biological and other weapons and the threat of terrorism.

When the clock was created by the magazine\'s staff in 1947, it was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has been moved 17 times since then.

It was as close as two minutes to midnight in 1953 following U.S. and Soviet hydrogen bomb tests, and as far away as 17 minutes to midnight in 1991 after the superpowers reached agreement on nuclear arms reduction.

source

[FrankZappa]

most of you wont care, but you can read the official statment here and here.

[FreeSpirit]

At the announcement from London, Stephen Hawking, BAS Sponsor, professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of the Royal Society, said:
"As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth. As citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change."

wow... I guess we\'re going to hell in a bucket, eh?
:hscratch: also, did he really "say" this or "type" it?

[Jim Cobb]

^cheap shot...

[FrankZappa]

wow... I guess we\'re going to hell in a bucket, eh?
:hscratch: also, did he really "say" this or "type" it?

total cheap shot. If you must dig though, his ALS (lou gehrig\'s disease, why he\'s in the chair and uses the talk box) is so far gone that he can only communicate through blinking. He has assistants who translate what he blinks to them, they type it out long hand into the computer, he verifies it, and then his computer reads it back. There was a time in the early 90\'s where he could still slur his speach a little but it was VERY hard to listen to and it took a VERY long time for him to get any point across. Very sad.

[davepeck]

if jack finds the other 4 suitcase nukes in time, will the clock be turned back? :chin: