Posts: General / The Doomsday Clock.....uh oh....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34813961/ns/technology_and_science-science/

The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public.

In December 1945, University of Chicago scientists who had helped to develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project created "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists." The Bulletin's board of directors then in 1947 came up with the idea of a Doomsday Clock to symbolize these threats. The message is that humans are "a few minutes to midnight," where midnight represents destruction by nuclear weapons, climate change and emerging technologies in the life sciences.

onemiamibum: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34813961/ns/technology_and_science-science/ The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public. In December 1945, University of Chicago scientists who had helped to develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project created "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists." The Bulletin's board of directors then in 1947 came up with the idea of a Doomsday Clock to symbolize these threats. The message is that humans are "a few minutes to midnight," where midnight represents destruction by nuclear weapons, climate change and emerging technologies in the life sciences.

I had never heard of this click before, it's both interesting and scary at the same time.

Does anyone know where it is currently pointing at and the last time it was updated?

Virginia:


I had never heard of this click before, it's both interesting and scary at the same time.

Does anyone know where it is currently pointing at and the last time it was updated?

so you don't actually read the articles

onemiamibum: so you don't actually read the articles

wow. that's what I get for multi tasking. I skimmed over the article so much that I missed that. In my defence I have not been thinking well all day. the flu has me  all loopy and feeling very out of it.

January 2007, when it was pushed forward by two minutes, from seven to five minutes before midnight.