News The Doomsday Clock has been set to "100 seconds to Midnight."

[FrothySolutions]

Doomsday Clock ticks closest to midnight in history as nuclear, climate concerns worsen

“It is 100 seconds to midnight.” That was the ominous message laid out by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Thursday morning as officials unveiled the 2020 setting for the Doomsday …

www.nydailynews.com

In case anyone's never heard of it, there's this think tank called The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who have, since 1947, been analyzing the state of the world and stuff and gauging how close we are to human extinction. And they express their findings through what they call the Doomsday Clock. It tells us how close we are to the world ending. Originally it was measured by nuclear proliferation. Today's it's measured by a whole host of things, like climate change and the spread of killer diseases.

We're at 100 seconds now. Closer than we've ever been in history. Compare it to 1953, when we were "2 minutes to Midnight." Because the Operation Ivy nuclear tests were launched.

Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

It is 89 seconds to midnight.

thebulletin.org

To celebrate Doomsday Clock Day, I think we should listen to this.

 

[ItsOver4cel]

Never heard of it ngl

 

[Incellectual]

Never heard of it ngl

 

[Six]

What happend? I though tensions with Iran cooled down.

 

[Incel of the GLA]

Everyone dies before they get to start euthanizing incels. Victory

 

[Incellectual]

Everyone dies before they get to start euthanizing incels. Victory

Its probably doomsdaying/overdramatizing everything tbh. I always find predictions like this to never happen, for better or worse.

 

[Emba]

Jfl@(((nuclear-weapons))).lol

 

[Words2_live_bye]

Go commit Watchmen Comic Covers

 

[Deleted member 24160]

What does 100 seconds stand for?

 

[Deleted member 22572]

I'm confused. Wdym by the world being X minutes away from midnight? What does that mean. R u sying world ends in 100 seconds.

 

[FrothySolutions]

What does 100 seconds stand for?

It's arbitrary, it just means "Really really really pushing it." For instance, the clock started at "7 Minutes to Midnight" in 1947, because the atomic bomb had been invented. But then the Soviet Union started making bombs, and the United States started making bombs in responds, officially starting the nuclear arms race. So the Bulletin was "This is terrible we're in a terrible situation. Let's rate the terribleness of this situation at a '3 Minutes to Midnight.'"

It's like the decile scale for rating faces. Technically subjective. What is an 8? What is "100 seconds?"

 

[Deleted member 22572]

I'm confused. Wdym by the world being X minutes away from midnight? What does that mean. R u sying world ends in 100 seconds.

Nvm I looked it up I get it now

 

[Deleted member 24160]

It's arbitrary, it just means "Really really really pushing it." For instance, the clock started at "7 Minutes to Midnight" in 1947, because the atomic bomb had been invented. But then the Soviet Union started making bombs, and the United States started making bombs in responds, officially starting the nuclear arms race. So the Bulletin was "This is terrible we're in a terrible situation. Let's rate the terribleness of this situation at a '3 Minutes to Midnight.'"

It's like the decile scale for rating faces. Technically subjective. What is an 8? What is "100 seconds?"

Oh ok thank you. I don't think the world is going to blow up or anything but society seems to be rotting faster and faster as the days go by.

 

[ihaveno1]

Can it please just happen already

 

[FrothySolutions]

Can it please just happen already

According to the Bulletin, it won't be long now.

 

[Incellectual]

It's arbitrary, it just means "Really really really pushing it." For instance, the clock started at "7 Minutes to Midnight" in 1947, because the atomic bomb had been invented. But then the Soviet Union started making bombs, and the United States started making bombs in responds, officially starting the nuclear arms race. So the Bulletin was "This is terrible we're in a terrible situation. Let's rate the terribleness of this situation at a '3 Minutes to Midnight.'"

It's like the decile scale for rating faces. Technically subjective. What is an 8? What is "100 seconds?"

that seems kind of useless as a scale then tbh. It seems 100% opinionated and based on who was voting it would be different times.

 

[failmaxxed]

Wont the time just keep exponentially getting smaller as tensions come and go, until eventually it'll be at 0.0003 picoseconds but nothing has happened yet

 

[FrothySolutions]

that seems kind of useless as a scale then tbh. It seems 100% opinionated and based on who was voting it would be different times.

These are experts, so we trust their word.

Wont the time just keep exponentially getting smaller as tensions come and go, until eventually it'll be at 0.0003 picoseconds but nothing has happened yet

Theoretically there's a point of no return where the world is effectively over. There's a Midnight. Theoretically.

 

[Deleted member 20659]

Can it please just happen already

 

[Sparrow's Song]

Let's all cheer for the Wu Flu.

 

[FrothySolutions]

Let's all cheer for the Wu Flu.

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Why is Corona-chan such a horror, but Ebola-chan was cute?

 

[Sparrow's Song]

Why is Corona-chan such a horror, but Ebola-chan was cute?

Because a Chinese virus sounds scarier than an African virus.

 

[Deleted member 16608]

I want to bathe in nuclear hellfire.

 

[blond_elf_bard]

What does 100 seconds stand for?

arbitrary number, I think they know that if they say "We're at mightnight," then they'll really look stupid if the world doesn't end for humanity

 

[crestfallencel]

Let the missiles fly already

 

[FrothySolutions]

arbitrary number, I think they know that if they say "We're at mightnight," then they'll really look stupid if the world doesn't end for humanity

They're experts, so if they say "We're at Midnight" that means there is no going back, the world is ending.

 

[Deleted member 16624]

Is this what the Watchmen comic was based on?

 

[TheSecondComing]

they are copers

Is this what the Watchmen comic was based on?

fuck

 

[Deleted member 16624]

fuck

Answer my question

 

[TheSecondComing]

Answer my question

you

 

[Deleted member 16624]

you

No

 

[FrothySolutions]

Is this what the Watchmen comic was based on?

You mean the one where he meets Superman?

 

[TheSecondComing]

No

fuck you

 

[Deleted member 16624]

You mean the one where he meets Superman?

....no? o.0
I'm talking about this

 

[Deleted member 24081]

Everyone dies before they get to start euthanizing incels. Victory

Based Incel victory

 

[FrothySolutions]

....no? o.0
I'm talking about this
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I wanna say no, but also kinda yes? The new Watchmen comic series "Doomsday Clock" definitely is, but the original Watchmen isn't specifically based on the Doomsday Clock, but it's based on a lot of things. It's based on Cold War tension as a whole, which includes stuff like the atomic era, which includes the Doomsday Clock.

 

[TheSecondComing]

where is the "ok" option

 

[Deleted member 23450]

These are experts, so we trust their word.

"WE"

 

[Deleted member 20434]

Yes let’s totally believe soemthing that said the world would end nearly 100 years ago JFL

 

[Deleted member 16624]

fuck you

 

[TheSecondComing]

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[Deleted member 16624]

I wanna say no, but also kinda yes? The new Watchmen comic series "Doomsday Clock" definitely is, but the original Watchmen isn't specifically based on the Doomsday Clock, but it's based on a lot of things. It's based on Cold War tension as a whole, which includes stuff like the atomic era, which includes the Doomsday Clock.

 

[TheSecondComing]

 

[FrothySolutions]

Yes let’s totally believe soemthing that said the world would end nearly 100 years ago JFL

They didn't say the world would end nearly 100 years ago, they were measuring how close we were to the world ending.

 

[Deleted member 20434]

They didn't say the world would end nearly 100 years ago, they were measuring how close we were to the world ending.

Didnt u say something about like 1947

 

[thespanishcel]

The doomsday clock is gay

 

[FrothySolutions]

Didnt u say something about like 1947

1947 was when the Bulletin started the Doomsday Clock.

 

[TINMAN]

wooooooooooooooo

Tbh I would count down like normies do on new years if I could

 

[Deleted member 20434]

1947 was when the Bulletin started the Doomsday Clock.

Yes so that means they’ve been saying the world was gonna end for nearly a century now

 

[Fat Link]

Fucking stupid is what I think.

Those assholes have no greater knowledge than any of us when and if the world is going to end in a nuclear war/someother doomsday styled catastrophe.