Doomsday Clock Moves 30 Seconds Closer To Midnight

[Num7]

The Doomsday Clock has rung in 2017, and it is two-and-a-half minutes to midnight.

The symbolic timepiece – where midnight represents our species’ destruction through a global catastrophe – has been ticking since 1947. This year, for the first time, the clock was moved forwards 30 seconds rather than back or forwards in minutes.

The reasons cited for its advancement from 2016’s time of 23:57 are painfully obvious to anyone that’s even briefly taken a glance at the news. The rise of nationalism, particularly in Europe and the US, is singled out, as is almost every aspect of the Trumpocalypse we now face ourselves with.

From his nuclear arms race sabre rattling with an increasingly aggressive Russia to his administration’s profound rejection of the science of climate change, it’s clear that the new President of the United States had a huge influence over the decision to move the clock closer to midnight.

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Doomsday Clock Moves 30 Seconds Closer To Midnight

 

[HDRKID]

Actually, things are getting better with russia. There is little or no chance of a nuclear war now.
Kremlin wants to improve US-Russia relations - CNNPolitics.com

 

[kcwildman]

maybe not with russia at this point,, but the korea, china issues are heating up fast. not to mention the middle east getting there hands on the tech to both make and send a nuke out to touch some body.. yeah the clock is moving as it should be..
but not because of the loud mouth trumpet, he's not really helping all that much so far but it's not him yet ....

 

[Mayhem]

Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight​

Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight

A new nuclear arms race, the Ukraine war and climate change were all factors considered, say scientists.

www.bbc.com

 

[OneIsTheWord]

 

[Num7]

Nice, and now we have AI concerns!

Jokes aside, I wonder how far we are from AIs that become a real menace. A couple of years?

 

[Mayhem]

What about trading AI bots for the stockmarket? , these are getting pushed all the time.

Even Musk is doing it.

 

[OakFieldAlienz444]

The very fact there is a "doomsday clock" is like something out of Dr. Strangelove or Monty Python

 

[8thsinner]

Don't know what everyone is afraid off.
Apocalypse (from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis) ' revelation, disclosure')
Media has corrupted the word like most english words but it's good things coming. Change coming..freedom...finally!
A 36 year cycle began in 1994...

 

[OakFieldAlienz444]

Don't know what everyone is afraid off.
Apocalypse (from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis) ' revelation, disclosure')
Media has corrupted the word like most english words but it's good things coming. Change coming..freedom...finally!
A 36 year cycle began in 1994...

I've heard the same thing about Friday the 13th, that it's actually NOT an unlucky day
and was actually a very LUCKY good day. "They" tend to try to invert everything
so our perspectives collectively end up backwards on everything good and bad.