Six Minutes to Midnight

[Modbert]

Scientists Push "Doomsday Clock" Back a Minute - ABC News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists pushed back the hands on the symbolic Doomsday Clock by one minute citing hopeful developments in nuclear weapons and climate change.

The symbolic clock that shows how close mankind is to self-annihilation was moved back to six minutes before midnight from five minutes on Thursday.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which maintains the clock and puts an illustration of it on its cover, attributed the move to efforts by world leaders to reduce their countries' nuclear arsenals and collaborate on climate stabilization.

The group, which includes 19 Nobel laureates, said a key to the "new era of cooperation is a change in the U.S. government's orientation toward international affairs brought about in part by the election of (U.S. President Barack) Obama."

When the clock was created in 1947, it was set at 7 minutes to midnight. It has been adjusted only 18 times before Thursday' move. The last was in 2007, when the BAS moved it forward by two minutes citing North Korea's test of a nuclear weapon, Iran's nuclear ambitions and a renewed U.S. emphasis the military utility of nuclear weapons.

Thoughts?

 

[Skull Pilot]

Bunch of fucking idiots.

The world has been slated to end how many times now? What makes these conceited assholes think they know any more than the others that have predicted the end?

 

[Gatekeeper]

They gotta stop playin with their clocks.

 

[Conspiracist]

The election of Obama has saved the world? Amazing. Glad we have such intellects to point this stuff to us peasants.

Iran and N. Korea must have stopped their research to welcome the U.S. president.