Doomsday Clock Remains at Five Minutes to Midnight 222
Lasrick writes "The Doomsday Clock remains at 5 minutes to midnight. In a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and members of the UN Security Council, the Bulletin announced its decision and how it was made. The decision to move (or to leave in place) the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock is made every year by the Bulletin's Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 18 Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and new technologies emerging in other domains."
Reasons for the clock remaining at five minutes include the U.S. and Russian not doing much for disarmament increasing nuclear weapon stockpiles in India and China, stalled efforts to reduce carbon emissions globally, and "killer robots."
Who cares? (Score:4, Funny)
Does anybody really care about this stupid metaphor and the idiots in charge of setting the time? It's so ridiculous that when I saw it in a movie I laughed, and then later found out it was real and laughed much harder.
Inspiration (Score:5, Funny)
The doomsday clock is what inspires people to keep proclaiming this to be the year of Linux on the desktop.
Re:DOOOOOOOMED (Score:5, Funny)
Location? (Score:5, Funny)
Where is this Doomsday clock? It certainly can't be Europe or America, because otherwise it'd be at 5 minutes to 11 due to daylight savings.
Re:North Korea (Score:2, Funny)
We have an unstable dictatorship in range of several extremely wealthy Asian nations with mutual defense treaties. World War III is just one temper tantrum away.
There's an ocean between Asia and the US...
Re:North Korea (Score:2, Funny)
The US is a wealthy Asian nation now? Wow that invasion was a quiet one...
Re:DOOOOOOOMED (Score:5, Funny)
Yup.
At this point, it's no longer "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and more "That geriatric motherfucker that won't stop calling about those kids on his lawn."
Re:DOOOOOOOMED (Score:5, Funny)