I never heard about "Doomsday Clock" up to now.
This concept refers to the Mankind auto-destruction probablity (for example, with an atomic catastrophe)
Doomsday Clock has being fluctuating through time. Sometimes it was 9 minutes to midnight, in other time it was 17 minutes.... now it is 5 minutes to midnight...
Is Doomsdat Clock like Microsoft Windows countdown clock (sometimes it left 3 minutes, the next minute it left 20 minutes, the nest minute it left 7 minutes...)?
2007-01-18 21:23:56 · 10 answers · asked by David Rguez 6 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I think you haven't understood.
DoomsDay Clock is only a metaphor about Human estupidity. It refers to the nearness of the peak of this stupidity, and this can lead us to our auto-destruction (for example: a nuclear world war).
My question compares the fluctuation of this clock with countdown clock of Windows (it's a joke).
2007-01-18 21:40:55 · update #1
aaaarrrrgggghhhh... I repeat: My question is about comparision between DOOMSDAY CLOCK AND COUNTDOWN OF WINDOWS (Microsoft).
It's a JOKE!!!
2007-01-18 21:47:47 · update #2
Sometimes, jokes are way too smart to be caught in one shot, but I admit you made your best to convey this one through. Nice try, friend
2007-01-18 22:00:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Doomsday clock is just cr*p, the idea is to reflect the stability in the nuclear world, right now they are scared about the Iranian nuclear and where it might go, and China. It really has no practical application, and is one of the weapons of mass distraction used in the western world.
2007-01-18 21:40:27 · answer #2 · answered by funnelweb 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think the idea of a doomsday clock is a lot of rubbish and they just keep changing it becuase they are making it up from some daft theory/equation and never get the same answer twice
2007-01-18 21:37:02 · answer #3 · answered by zargonius 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we need a clock to remind us of what Einstein said: that he believed only two things were infinite: the universe, and man's stupidity... and he wasn't so sure about the universe.
2007-01-18 21:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by le païen 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's a bit silly really, because they set it at what, seven minutes?
Seven minutes later, nothing happenned, so they must have been wrong. Yesterday they said it was five minutes or something and the world didn't end five minutes later!
2007-01-18 21:34:03 · answer #5 · answered by voodoobluesman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
judging by some of the answers on this site its about a 1/4 past twelve!
2007-01-19 00:24:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hah, better say your prays, windows is about to self-destruct world wide.
2007-01-19 02:32:23 · answer #7 · answered by Trublood 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a very complicated thing to calculate dooms day
2007-01-18 21:32:13 · answer #8 · answered by krishna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES ITS EXACTLY THE SAME CONCEPT IN FACT I THINK THAT BILL GATES BLOKE PATENTED BOTH TOGETHER
2007-01-19 01:06:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe you're right !
2007-01-18 23:52:46 · answer #10 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋