2007-01-17 14:32:05 · 5 answers · asked by bostnteabagparty01 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
First, the damned Doomsday clock has a range of only 15 minutes! That's 1/96 of a day, and at BEST implies that we're 95/96 of the way to utter destruction. (A glass 95/96 empty) I could see 11 p.m. maybe. (Still time to catch the news and Leno's monologue.)
Second, there are a couple of considerations involved in deciding how close we are to doomsday: one involves the science of weapons, the other, more volatile and more important one, involves politics, attitudes, public hysteria, etc. Scientists are experts in only the former. And since many try habitually to use science and its methods to answer questions that lie beyond the purview of science, they are often less qualified than other well-informed citizens to make political assessments.
And third, it's not out of the question that some scientists harbor a hidden desire to scare the rest of us to compensate for the social rejection that science nerds endured in high school.
2007-01-17 15:03:47 · answer #1 · answered by G-zilla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there are tons of people who do. Just listen to coast to coast AM. That will explain my point. However, I think it is all rubbish. No one can predict the end.
Take "The BIG one" for example.
Now supposedly this BIG one is suppose to be an earthquake that not only destroys cities but it is suppose to kill bunches of people. This quake has been predicted to be something like a 9 or something.
But a person in the wrong place at the wrong time during a 2 pointer ends up dying. Well, that was their BIG one. Because they did not live through it.
You can't put a time stamp on the end of the world.
You cannot even put a time stamp on the end of your own life.
2007-01-17 22:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by Noodles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They set the Doomsday Clock forward, and they will set it back again. It has been done before. In 1983. It would be a good deterrent, if the Governments would pay some attention to it.
2007-01-17 22:53:14 · answer #3 · answered by pooterilgatto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read about that too. Do you think if there is a global nuclear war they will rush to set the clock to 12 and will anybody live to care? That could be the first news item if they do.
2007-01-17 22:38:38 · answer #4 · answered by D.F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I think people overreact to a lot of unimportant stuff.
2007-01-17 22:36:19 · answer #5 · answered by severedhead15 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋