Post by robeiae on Jan 25, 2019 11:11:49 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/world/doomsday-clock-2019/index.html
LOL on Rosner's comment. It's not "bad news," because it's not any news at all, imo.
Just for point of info, the clock was at seven minutes to midnight in 1962, when many thought open conflict between the US and the Soviets was a near-certainty. In 1991, it went all the way back to seventeen minutes to midnight because of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union; the geniuses of the Bulletin were apparently unable to grasp how much those events would lead to a greater proliferation of nuclear weapons (they eventually realized this, several years down the the road).
If you have anything left on your bucket list, do it now, because the world is close to annihilation.
That's according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which gave its annual presentation of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday.
A group of scientists and scholars, including 15 Nobel laureates, set the clock at 11:58 p.m. -- two minutes before the symbolic apocalyptic midnight.
The minute hand didn't move since last year. But 11:58 p.m. is the closest the clock has ever been to symbolizing doom.
"The fact that the Doomsday Clock's hands did not change is bad news," said Robert Rosner, chair of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board.
That's according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which gave its annual presentation of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday.
A group of scientists and scholars, including 15 Nobel laureates, set the clock at 11:58 p.m. -- two minutes before the symbolic apocalyptic midnight.
The minute hand didn't move since last year. But 11:58 p.m. is the closest the clock has ever been to symbolizing doom.
"The fact that the Doomsday Clock's hands did not change is bad news," said Robert Rosner, chair of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board.
Just for point of info, the clock was at seven minutes to midnight in 1962, when many thought open conflict between the US and the Soviets was a near-certainty. In 1991, it went all the way back to seventeen minutes to midnight because of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union; the geniuses of the Bulletin were apparently unable to grasp how much those events would lead to a greater proliferation of nuclear weapons (they eventually realized this, several years down the the road).