Doomsday Clock Updates 'Minutes To Midnight

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UPDATE: The 'Doomsday Clock' has been moved forward. We're now 5 'minutes from midnight.' View a live stream of the announcement and rationale here.
Humanity will soon be getting an update on how close we are to catastrophic destruction, as scientists and security experts decide whether to nudge the hands of the famous "Doomsday Clock" forward toward midnight — and doom — or back toward security and safety.
The clock, in use as a symbol of imminent apocalypse since 1947, now stands at six minutes to midnight. On Tuesday (Jan. 10), the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) will announce whether they will nudge the minute hand forward or backward to reflect current trends in world security. The last time the clock hand moved was in 2010, when the group moved the hand from five minutes to midnight back to six.
In making the decision, the Bulletin considers the current state of nuclear weapons, climate change and biosecurity, along with other issues that could influence humanity's survival. The closest the clock has been to midnight has been 11:57 p.m., set in 1984 when the U.S. and the Soviet Union were in a diplomatic stand-off and tensions were high. The farthest humanity has ever been from destruction, according to the clock, was in 1991, when the Doomsday Clock stood at 17 minutes to midnight. That year, the Cold War over, the U.S. and Russia began cutting their arsenals.
The clock ticked back toward midnight at the next update in 1995, however, when hopes of total nuclear disarmament began to fade. That update set the hands at 14 minutes until midnight. In recent years, the clock has ticked closer to destruction as the Bulletin has focused on concerns about nuclear terrorism and climate change.
The 2010 shift away from doomsday was due to nuclear agreements between the U.S. and Russia and productive climate talks at Copenhagen.
The announcement of the new "doomsday time" will come at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday. The Bulletin is expected to consider factors ranging from Iran's nuclear program to the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster to the state of policy on climate change.

Really? That is really to know time come to end? I don't think so. Tell me your opinion.
 

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We already have been claimed to be doomed a gazillion times.

The Maya's are just laughing their skeletal asses off in their graves from trolling the modern people.
They where just to lazy to finish that stupid calender.
 
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Well the clock isn't based on all this "Mayan 2012" crap, it's based on mainly nuclear war and such. The clock was moved forward because of the Iranian nuclear program and stuff like that. It says so right in the article and mentions nothing about Mayans.
 
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We already have been claimed to be doomed a gazillion times.

The Maya's are just laughing their skeletal asses off in their graves from trolling the modern people.
They where just to lazy to finish that stupid calender.
You can't "finish a calendar."
 
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We already have been claimed to be doomed a gazillion times.

The Maya's are just laughing their skeletal asses off in their graves from trolling the modern people.
They where just to lazy to finish that stupid calender.
You can't "finish a calendar."

My calendar starts January 2012 and ends January 2013. Unless there is more days invented its finished. :P
 

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this clock is old i dint know they still keep it update i think the closest it been to midnight was in 1984 with 11:57pm

It says that in the post, y'know.

Do people actually read these stories or just see "Doomsday Clock" and instantly assume it's Mayans or Nostradamus or something.
 
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this clock is old i dint know they still keep it update i think the closest it been to midnight was in 1984 with 11:57pm

It says that in the post, y'know.

Do people actually read these stories or just see "Doomsday Clock" and instantly assume it's Mayans or Nostradamus or something.

i dint read it cuz i already know about it

i think the clock was never set in the Cuban crisis i wonder what place could that have gotten
 

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i dint read it cuz i already know about it

i think the clock was never set in the Cuban crisis i wonder what place could that have gotten

The crisis was quite quick and, if anything, showed good communication between the US and the Soviet Union. Yes, tensions were high and we were on the brink of war, but good communications between the White House and the Kremlin prevented this crisis.
 

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