Five minutes until the Apocalypse

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Roxas_XIII
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22 Jan 2007, 6:58 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01 ... index.html

Not the most upbeat of news.... comments?

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22 Jan 2007, 6:59 pm

Oh, please! It goes back and forth every five years. It was two minutes in 1984, and it was 17 minutes in 1991.

I don't take those things very seriously.

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22 Jan 2007, 8:36 pm

I thought it was back down to 2 Minutes. Maybe I am wrong.

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22 Jan 2007, 9:38 pm

amerikasend wrote:

I thought it was back down to 2 Minutes. Maybe I am wrong.

It was moved foward two minutes and is now resting at 11:55.

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22 Jan 2007, 10:39 pm

The clock isn't an exact countdown to our nuclear annihilation, but rather a general indication of how unstable the world is. The only time it ever went to two minutes was in 1953 when the US and the USSR tested thermonuclear weapons within two months of each other. It goes up and down according to world events, peace treaties, wars breaking out, etc. in 1984 it went down because of the escalation of the arms race and instability in the USSR that made it more likely they would start a war just to stave off collapse, which is what happened in 1991 Which along with the START treaty made the world quite a bit more stable. Now with the godawful mess in the middle east and north korea developing nukes the world is quite a bit less stable than it was in 1991.

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22 Jan 2007, 11:01 pm

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Five minutes until the Apocalypse

The horror... the horror.

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22 Jan 2007, 11:21 pm

oye vey.

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22 Jan 2007, 11:24 pm

When the apocalypse comes, I will be the Anti-Christ's second in command :twisted: .

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22 Jan 2007, 11:24 pm

It's probably another hoax. But it does make me wonder.......when will the world ACTUALLY end?

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23 Jan 2007, 12:04 am

Oy vey iz mir! you got a lota chutzpah starting a thread like this you meshuggener! ah I'm kvetching like a mamzer! mazel to all you mensches!

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23 Jan 2007, 3:48 am

It doesn't really surprise me that it's been moved upward. The world has been ending for many years now. :roll:

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23 Jan 2007, 4:23 am

Atomika wrote:

When the apocalypse comes, I will be the Anti-Christ's second in command :twisted:

You really wanna be my second in command?

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23 Jan 2007, 8:12 am

They didn't mention either North Korea, or Iran as the probable culprits who'll pull the nuclear trigger. (As Prime Minister Bush says, nunclear.)

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23 Jan 2007, 2:48 pm

Looks like its time for us to build a large underground bunker just in case...

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27 Jan 2007, 10:07 pm

I think the Doomsday Clock serves a useful purpose in that it causes people to think about the world's situation a lot more than if no one brought it to our attention.

I'm betting many more folks become active in chaitable, environmental, and philanthropic causes as a result of the annual report on the clock.

It has a kind of a chintzy scare factor to it, but it also is a sort of looming reminder to us that there are issues out there, such as global warming, hunger, and -believe it or not- slavery, and other issues that need to be addressed.

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27 Jan 2007, 10:15 pm

T-rav20 wrote:

Oy vey iz mir! you got a lota chutzpah starting a thread like this you meshuggener! ah I'm kvetching like a mamzer! mazel to all you mensches!

You trying to imitate a more Yiddish version of Einsterin? I know he said "Oy vey" when he heard about Hiroshima, but WTF?

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