I know that midnight means destruction, but what do the minutes mean? Has not the human race always been a few minutes away? Who is anyone to judge this?
2007-01-17 15:03:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
So I take it the minutes are just symbols so one minute or three minutes really make no difference as any time this commitee thinks some event becomes an issue they move the clock. Do they debate this and have some kind of system to the minutes?
2007-01-17 15:13:14 · update #1
Good Answers thank you!
2007-01-17 15:16:08 · update #2
They don't mean anything. The Doomsday clock is just a public relations device. It's a picture put on the cover of a magazine (I forget its name), and every time the editors think the danger of nuclear war has increased or decreased, they move the hands one way or another. It's just an image used to reinforce the public perception of their opinion. The people who decide whether or not to move the hands have no more information on whether an increased or decreased danger exists than do you our I. Ignore it, and make up your own mind.
2007-01-17 15:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by Steve J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How close we are to doomsday.
They are not minutes, but degrees of tension.
11:59 would be the president's finger is on the button.
11:45 means all is well, there is no tension between any groups that possess nuclear weapons.
For example, the Cuban Missile Crisis I think made it to 11:57 or something like that. The falling of the Berlin Wall pushed 'time' back considerably.
The human race has always been a few minutes away - that's why there are only 20 minutes on the clock and why the symbolism is so powerful.
I have no idea who judges the clock, but since its American, the judgement is mostly from an American perspective.
2007-01-17 23:10:57 · answer #2 · answered by Justin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the number of minutes left for destruction.
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clockface maintained since 1947 by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. It uses the analogy of the human race being at a time that is "minutes to midnight" where midnight represents destruction by nuclear war. The clock has appeared on the cover of each issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since its introduction.
The number of minutes before midnight, an arbitrary measure of the degree of nuclear threat, is updated periodically. The clock is currently set to five minutes to midnight, the most recent time adjustment having been made on January 17, 2007.-
2007-01-17 23:10:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe the minutes R" signs of the doomsday, 4 example...Homosexuality, War in iraq, Global warming..these R' all signs that our world is going 2 b destructed...well...the clock is just a symbol, but its kinda funny how it all makes sense..kinda scary 2...
2007-01-17 23:09:39 · answer #4 · answered by Aarif Md. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're not real minutes, just symbolic representations of how close we are to exploding Earth back into the atmosphere.
We're pretty close these days, right?
2007-01-17 23:46:35 · answer #5 · answered by Rapunzel XVIII 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nuclear science, who watches how close we get to our own destruction by nuclear war and now global warming. The closest it got was when the us tested it's first hydrogen bomb. Farthest was when the soviet union fell.
2007-01-17 23:06:56 · answer #6 · answered by skunkgrease 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ohhh it means be afraid or we're going to move the clockhand, everyone one down on their knees and worship us while we play God. Anyone know how to hook up remote control servos on Hawken's chair?
2007-01-17 23:34:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Oh crap, I'm late!" - Death
2007-01-17 23:05:53 · answer #8 · answered by USAF, Retired 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
???
YOU'RE JOKING?
2007-01-17 23:11:11 · answer #9 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋