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The Doomsday Clock moves to 2 1/2 minutes to midnight
NotBomberguy:
ITS HAPPENING
sir dooble:
The Doomsday Clock is just fearmongering. It's impossible to take it seriously when it can move backwards and make leaps of any random size.
It's one step away from predicting the apocalypse, except it's more annoying as it's just hedging a bet.
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: sir dooble on January 28, 2017, 11:19:05 AM ---The Doomsday Clock is just fearmongering. It's impossible to take it seriously when it can move backwards and make leaps of any random size.
It's one step away from predicting the apocalypse, except it's more annoying as it's just hedging a bet.
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The point is to convince us to either seek diplomacy in the case of nuclear war, try to mend climate change, or fund science in case of a widespread disease or something. It's just a graphic to help the layperson understand that there's no going back once one of these types of things happen and we must do everything we can to stop them. It's not meant to predict anything, just brown townyzing how things are going.
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Nonnel on January 28, 2017, 02:53:45 PM ---The point is to convince us to either seek diplomacy in the case of nuclear war
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"I was going to nuke China but since this clock is near midnight I better lay off"
Mega-Bear:
--- Quote from: e-maxx on January 28, 2017, 12:04:48 AM ---If this was the plot of a book i would totally read it
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Read the Watchmen, it's about a bunch of superheroes who almost cause the end of he world.