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Doomsday Clock has been reset, reveals
how close humanity is to destruction:
‘Global catastrophe’

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Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 1/23/2024 10:40:38 AM

Is humanity doomed? The annual update of the Doomsday Clock was announced at 10 a.m. this morning in Washington, DC. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock this year was set to 90 seconds to midnight — for the second year in a row. The Doomsday Clock statement reads: “Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals

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Bad news, folks. We're all going to be dead in 90 seconds. Actually - - by the time I type this - - and by the time you read this - - we're probably down to about 11 seconds. Oh, well - - it's been real. See ya!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: snakeoil 1/23/2024 10:43:13 AM (No. 1642545)
Is that Standard Time or Daylight Savings?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 1/23/2024 11:01:21 AM (No. 1642559)
How scientific is it?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 1/23/2024 11:09:29 AM (No. 1642567)
Right up there with global warming.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: zoidberg 1/23/2024 11:12:14 AM (No. 1642574)
Does Barry McGuire agree that we're on the eve of destruction?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: SkyKing1222 1/23/2024 11:12:41 AM (No. 1642575)
The science of Chicken Little since 1947.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: chumley 1/23/2024 11:16:16 AM (No. 1642577)
They have been touting that stupid clock as if it was gospel since I was in high school (at least). It is based on nothing more than some committee's opinions. Its purpose is to keep people in a panic. Unless they have a really nice crystal ball and can see in the hearts of evil people in power, it is meaningless.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 1/23/2024 11:25:06 AM (No. 1642584)
Re #1, Greenwich Mean Time. :-) Actually, we'll all be looking for nukes when we get hit by a superbug instead. The only clock I look at is the debt clock.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 1/23/2024 11:34:02 AM (No. 1642593)
These bozoes have been running this BS schtick for all of my life. Like the cartoon fools with a front and back placard saying "The End is Near". Are there dangers? Yes, have been since the first nuke was set off. Not any worse today than last year, or three years ago. Things were very close when I was a kid and the Cuban missile flap went on, and we knew it then, people were genuinely concerned. This is baloney.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 1/23/2024 11:44:31 AM (No. 1642607)
Among all the annual pointless events, Mr. Blackwell's worst-dressed list is of more importance than the resetting of this "clock."
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Reply 10 - Posted by: hershey 1/23/2024 12:12:57 PM (No. 1642624)
Woo hooo doggie poooo....put another layer of aluminum on your tin foil hat folks...this is gonna get you before climate change and all the polar bears drown because the ice flows have melted....quick get a comment from Greta...
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Reply 11 - Posted by: red1066 1/23/2024 1:04:27 PM (No. 1642655)
Well, I guess between Biteme's corruption and plain stupidity, and researchers developing a deadly form of Covid, dying instantly from a nuclear blast isn't all that bad. At least this time, I won't have to hide under my school desk to pretend I'm protected.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Luandir 1/23/2024 2:04:58 PM (No. 1642688)
The doomsday decision isn't going to be made by scientists. It's going to be made by tyrants, mullahs, and fanatics who expect no resistance from a hapless, inept President.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 1/23/2024 2:25:53 PM (No. 1642701)
It is a comfort knowing that if the ICBMs fly, we'll have enough warning for some fool to advance this symbolic fraud of a clock to midnight and get out a tweet about it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: mc squared 1/23/2024 2:46:25 PM (No. 1642717)
When I was a kid, the Doomsday clock was on a pedestal in the sunlight.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Venturer 1/23/2024 3:00:19 PM (No. 1642728)
Is john Kerry setting the clock?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Strike3 1/23/2024 3:54:22 PM (No. 1642758)
We sailed right through 2012 and we'll survive this one as well, most of us anyway.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: JimBob 1/23/2024 9:40:35 PM (No. 1642962)
OK... why are they giving these publicity-hungry gloom-and-doomers a platform? Same old Bovine Scatology schtick for what?.... 77 years? So sick of 'em!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: privateer 1/24/2024 1:26:11 PM (No. 1643410)
Another stunning triumph for President Bok Choy.
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