Poll of the Day > The Doomsday Clock is at 100 seconds until midnight - the lowest it's ever been.

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Judgmenl
01/23/20 7:59:08 PM
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Also there's that Chinese plague going on too.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/doomsday-clock-2020-coronavirus-midnight-time-nuclear-war-ai-climate-a9298926.html
I think we're fucked.

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ParanoidObsessive
01/23/20 8:02:39 PM
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It would probably mean more if it wasn't mostly just made up by people making subjective assumptions rather than anything tangible or objective.
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pedro45
01/23/20 8:04:49 PM
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It's symbolic. Well, that's how I'm taking it. The article states how it has changed multiple times like the cold war and stuff. It keeps us on our toes

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FrothySolutions
01/23/20 8:05:42 PM
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Kyuubi4269
01/23/20 8:10:48 PM
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It's a shame they're wasting effort on arty BS.
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Lokarin
01/23/20 8:20:12 PM
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obviously the chinese plague is divine punishment from allah for attacking the Uhgririgrgirs

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Unbridled9
01/23/20 8:22:54 PM
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It's symbolic and likely being vastly over-exaggerated due to social media.

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Krazy_Kirby
01/23/20 8:31:34 PM
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isn't it already midnight there?
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pedro45
01/23/20 8:47:53 PM
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2 more hours until it is on the east coast

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Judgmenl
01/23/20 8:48:46 PM
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pedro45 posted...
2 more hours until it is on the east coast
It's already in Texas, probably already on the east coast.

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pedro45
01/23/20 8:49:50 PM
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No. Texas is not at midnight...

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Ferarri619
01/23/20 8:56:08 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
I think we're fucked.

Good.
Let humanity go extinct.
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Ferarri619
01/23/20 8:58:55 PM
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The human race has proven to be undeserving of the positives of life.

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Krazy_Kirby
01/23/20 8:59:13 PM
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Judgmenl posted...

It's already in Texas, probably already on the east coast.


must be living in a different texas then
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TheWorstPoster
01/23/20 9:04:58 PM
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You DO realize that the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists", are NOT actually atomic scientists, or even scientists at all?

It's nothing more than a Leftist scare lobbying group.
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Judgmenl
01/23/20 9:08:25 PM
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What is a Leftist?
Nobody seems to be able to answer me.

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Judgmenl
01/23/20 9:10:29 PM
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Mr Hangman posted...
The Doomsday Clock started in 1947. Does anyone really think the world is at greater risk now than it was in 1963? 1983? The people who run this thing aren't serious, they're alarmists and attention whores.

A statement like "There are some serious issues that we should think carefully about and address, but not quite as dangerous as during the peak risk of atomic war, literally the reason this group was formed in the first place." doesn't attract as many clicks so instead they hyperbolize and then wonder why people don't take them seriously.

Dude I'm absolutely fucking terrified of this Chinese plague that's already killed more people than SARS in 1 week.
Every hour people are reporting more infected and even more deaths. Entire parts of China have apparently been quarantined, ect.

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frankspank
01/27/20 1:17:38 AM
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There is no Chinese plague.
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Zeus
01/27/20 1:36:59 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
It would probably mean more if it wasn't mostly just made up by people making subjective assumptions rather than anything tangible or objective.

It's also silly because tensions are lower at the moment than they have been in the past. The second Cold War started under Obama has somewhat thawed with Trump in office. Considering that the impetus for the Doomsday Clock *was* the first Cold War, we're probably in pretty damn good shape.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the experts who set the time, said that the change reflected increasing concern about climate change, global warfare, misinformation and more. Those various dangers are combining with each other to endanger the world yet more, they said.

ROFLMAO! "Misinformation" is one of their big things. What a joke! Otherwise global warfare is less of an issue today than it was during events like the actual Cold War.


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ParanoidObsessive
01/27/20 3:12:21 AM
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Zeus posted...
It's also silly because tensions are lower at the moment than they have been in the past.

Wait, are you suggesting we aren't closer to imminent and absolute death than the time during the Cuban Missile Crisis where literally the only thing that saved us all from nuclear annihilation was a single Soviet soldier?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Averted_nuclear_launch

Or that we should be more terrified about whether or not we'll still be alive tomorrow than people were when they were teaching schoolchildren to hide under their desks to survive nuclear explosions?
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PrettyBoyFloyd
01/27/20 5:04:48 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

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bulbinking
01/27/20 2:31:36 PM
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Ferarri619 posted...
Good.
Let humanity go extinct.
"Obliteration for all, instead of just the helpless? That is a fate I can accept" - Android 17 (Dragon Ball Super)

I can die happily in the knowledge that the wicked will not succeed me.


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dedbus
01/27/20 3:20:19 PM
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A bunch of Karens helming the clock it seems. Just give them a 5 dollar target card and disaster averted.
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papercup
01/27/20 3:30:16 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
It would probably mean more if it wasn't mostly just made up by people making subjective assumptions rather than anything tangible or objective.

This. It really doesn't mean much.

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