The Doomsday Clock was supposed to be reset today...instead the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists will launch a whole new web site tomorrow and make a "major announcement".
http://www.thebulletin.org/index.htm
The Doomsday Clock has been maintained since 1947 and has never been set below 2 minutes to midnight.
Scared yet? You should be.
2007-01-16 07:13:39 · 28 answers · asked by Perry L 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Read up on it here...it is a legitimate instrument used by the guys that design the nukes to warn the rest of us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_clock
2007-01-16 07:22:17 · update #1
I am almost as afraid as I was about the Y2K malarky.
2007-01-16 07:22:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
First off, You should all take some time and chill out about this stupid clock, why even bother thinking about it anyway? i mean , are ya gonna be like "OH CRAP" if and when the end of the world is here?? is it going to even matter to you? i know for a fact that i will be like huh, well should have seen that coming. if anything does happen, just be happy of the things you have accomplished in life, and forget the rest.
2007-01-17 21:47:41 · answer #2 · answered by Marine1 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bunch of brave people huh!Scared they are right nothing to be scared about.Some nut pushes the button and BOOM we are gone.I figured mankind would be the downfall of earth.We are always doing something to destroy the earths resources and air.polluters we are or maybe we well blow it up first.Time to realize who put us here and have faith that what GOD does is for the best.The clock started in 1947 and has gone 15 minutes in those 59 years.That gives us almost 15 more years (2020-2021)to get it right here before we go are separate ways (heaven-hell)I know where i am going do you!
2007-01-17 22:00:02 · answer #3 · answered by tujungarocket 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I'm not. The Doomsday clock has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of. "Legitamate instrument" my ***. Just because some man changes the hands on a cardboard clock, I'm supposed to be scared. WTF! This accomplishes nothing, I cannot believe that there are real people, professionals no less, that are out there playing with a cardboard clock instead of doing something meaningful. That my friend is why we're going to hell.
2007-01-17 11:09:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well... Now I know what that song "Two minutes to midnight." By that 80's band Iron Maiden was all about...
Never quite understood that and it bugged me for years!
Thanks!
As for me... Im not scared. As long as I die when it happens and Im not left in some school bus in Arizona with no air conditioning with half my face burned off, Im fine with it. Death doesn't frighten me, life is far more scary!
2007-01-17 02:19:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I'm scared. I'm climbing into my hidey hole right now.
Get a life, and live it to the fullest. We are all going to die sometime, whether the "Doomsday Clock" is right or not. The only thing you can do to prepare is get right with God.
2007-01-16 07:18:47 · answer #6 · answered by J.R. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's interesting how they determine the threat although it does not really matter that much because it cannot be 100% accurate. Currently the countires with nuclear weapons would not want to start a nuclear war because they know it would be damaging to them...so why risk it.
2007-01-17 10:29:06 · answer #7 · answered by Alek D 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just think of all the people that eat rice cakes, tofu, etc., drink skim or soy milk, diet coke, etc., bust their butt doing exercises, won't they be really pi**ed off! They could have been eating all the good stuff and laying around getting fat and really enjoying themselves.
Oh, am I scared? No, not in the least.
2007-01-16 07:26:23 · answer #8 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I am not scared, everybody has to die, some will go sooner than others but death is unavoidable. I will continue to live my life and not go running off to the hills to bury my head in the sands.
2007-01-17 23:20:51 · answer #9 · answered by wolfskil 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And the world was supposed to crash at midnight Y2K. And the Hale-Bop comet was supposed to take us to a better world. Whatever. Sounds like your faith in in the wrong place and you're worried about the wrong thing.
2007-01-16 07:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by Emm 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not to sound flippant but scared of what?
As if world leaders give a tinker's dam about what little old me has to say about things.
2007-01-16 07:17:08 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋