It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.
On Tuesday, the clock was set at 90seconds until midnight — the closest to the hour it has ever been, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which created the clock in 1947. Midnight represents the moment at which we will have made Earth uninhabitable for humanity.From 2020 to 2022, the clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight.
The clock isn’t designed to definitively measure existential threats, but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change, according to the Bulletin.
The decision to move the clock 10 seconds forward this year is largely due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the increased risk of nuclear escalation, the Bulletin said in a news release.The continuing threats posed by the climate crisis, as well as the breakdown of norms and institutions needed to reduce risks associated with biological threats like Covid-19, also played a role.
“We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality,” Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin,said in the release. “It’s a decision our experts do not take lightly. The US government, its NATO allies and Ukraine have a multitude of channels for dialogue; we urge leaders to explore all of them to their fullest ability to turn back the Clock.”
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Movingthe clock back with bold, concrete actions is still possible. In fact, the hand moved thefarthest away from midnight — a whopping 17 minutes before the hour — in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush’s administration signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Soviet Union. In 2016, the clock was at three minutes before midnight as a result of the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord.
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I wonder under what feasible conditions the clock wouldn't be close to midnight!
After doomsday, of course. Once we blow everything up, it'll take centuries to rebuild to the point we can blow it all up again.
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“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
After doomsday, of course. Once we blow everything up, it'll take centuries to rebuild to the point we can blow it all up again.
Mankind is now soft and will die out with a global nuclear war, maybe dolphins will evolve enough to grow hands and rebuild the planet and possibly they'll be nice enough not to blow it up again
Mankind is now soft and will die out with a global nuclear war, maybe dolphins will evolve enough to grow hands and rebuild the planet and possibly they'll be nice enough not to blow it up again
Tribes in places like Africa and South America will be the tough ones who survive. Anyone who hasn't become dependent on our modern world.
Mankind is now soft and will die out with a global nuclear war, maybe dolphins will evolve enough to grow hands and rebuild the planet and possibly they'll be nice enough not to blow it up again
Dolphins are complete a-holes. They rape and kill for fun out in the ocean, so likely would be on the same path as us
Get out your sun screen Doomsday Clock update
