Doomsday Clock 100 Seconds Til Midnight

[Squiddy]

So apparently, the Doomsday Clock is at 100 seconds til midnight which is the closest we've ever gotten. Maybe this will kill off humanity. It'd be great for me so I wouldn't have to ctb myself.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/doomsday-clock-reset-100-seconds-until-midnight-closest-ever

 

[LMLN]

I saw that! Not that I wish anyone else dead...but if its going to happen anyway. I wont have to do it.

 

[mesohappy]

I find myself thinking thoughts like that too.Last night there was an earthquake centered close to where I live,and instead of getting alarmed,I hoped that it would be the "big one".People talking about North Korea and Iran and nuclear missile fears,doesn't effect me at all.I wish they would fire one right at my house.

 

[oneess]

Sorry but I feel stupid, I really don't get what is this doomsday clock, can someone explain?

 

[Despondent]

Sorry but I feel stupid, I really don't get what is this doomsday clock, can someone explain?

I don't understand either

 

[Carina]

Sorry but I feel stupid, I really don't get what is this doomsday clock, can someone explain?

It's basically a clock of an estimate based on technology/nuclear/climate/etc saying how close humanity is to extinction. Just an indication that everyone can get, without it being complicated so to speak

 

[WhiteEyes]

Maybe its connecting with us lol. It feels like im 100 seconds to midnight.

Anyway, the world will probably be fine.

 

[Despondent]

It's basically a clock of an estimate based on technology/nuclear/climate/etc saying how close humanity is to extinction. Just an indication that everyone can get, without it being complicated so to speak

Does that mean we're gonna die at midnight?

 

[Carina]

Maybe its connecting with us lol. It feels like im 100 seconds to midnight.

Anyway, the world will probably be fine.

Really that's the thing. The planet will generally always be here (shy of the sun expanding, black hole entering solar system, or other such thing), humans are in trouble--but the earth is fine ;) What we see is nothing really compared to what the earth really is.

 

[Nemeshisu]

Sorry but I feel stupid, I really don't get what is this doomsday clock, can someone explain?

It's a clock that is maintaned since 1947. It symbolizes the likehood of man-made catastrophe. Midnight represents the catastrophe. It is moved either forward or backwards every few years in the response to the events that are happening in world.

 

[LegaliseIt!]

The thing with nuclear weapons is that death isn't necessarily instantaneous. A majority of inner city dwellers would be vaporized instantly, but if you are extremely unlucky, and I always am, you die of burns and radiation sickness over a few days, especially if your ctb kit is destroyed, or your hands are melted, and you can't use your method.

 

[Carina]

Does that mean we're gonna die at midnight?

it's just an indication to how close things are given nothing changing. And since people now have not only a "thin'gs don't need to change" but a "let's make things worse, the environment isn't needed" philosophy, and apparently viruses are being thawed out from ice and things places--we're potentially screwing the human race in so many ways. And if they include all the wildfires which also makes things worse... it's a spiral effect. It's not a literal clock. The cold war was like 7 minutes to midnight--and we were facing nuclear war.

 

[SugarbushMtn]

The clock is hype to push one political agenda or another.

 

[LegaliseIt!]

The clock is hype to push one political agenda or another.

The clock was allegedly started by the scientists that created the atomic bombs used by the American military in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I don't know if that is a myth built up around the notion that some of them were allegedly remorseful, or if they actually were remorseful.

 

[Carina]

Ohhh
So let me try and clarify what you're telling me?
Pretty much, it's 100 seconds to midnight meaning that we're getting so close to the point that the things we're doing to the world will soon be irreversable? We're not going to legitamately die at midnight.

I just don't want us all to die because of some nuclear explosion, etc. I'd rather kill myself and let everyone here live on if that's what they want

It it was literal, humanity would've ended in 1947/whenever. Just seeing clock hands as a countdown means more than something people can't see.

 

[squirtsoda]

Love me some radioactive ash, jk. Just makes me think of that prematurely cancelled show Jericho. And that shady corporation Jennings & Rall (rough analogue for Ernst & Young maybe?) that hangs around like a cockroach looking for everyone's debt after the apocalypse.

 

[LMLN]

The thing with nuclear weapons is that death isn't necessarily instantaneous. A majority of inner city dwellers would be vaporized instantly, but if you are extremely unlucky, and I always am, you die of burns and radiation sickness over a few days, especially if your ctb kit is destroyed, or your hands are melted, and you can't use your method.

Luckily I'm in a major city. I hope I'm one of the vaporized ones. If I thought life is rough now...I dont wanna be around after something like that.

 

[squirtsoda]

Luckily I'm in a major city. I hope I'm one of the vaporized ones. If I thought life is rough now...I dont wanna be around after something like that.

Lol I'm right at 25 miles from a major city so I'd probably just get the slow form of radiation poisoning

 

[Despondent]

It sucks because it's not too late to turn things around, but no one will take a stand
Makes me want to kill myself even more :/

 

[squirtsoda]

It sucks because it's not too late to turn things around, but no one will take a stand
Makes me want to kill myself even more :/

We'll see what happens in November. . Well that's just one factor lol.

 

[Despondent]

We'll see what happens in November. . Well that's just one factor lol.

Why November lol

 

[Soulless_Angel]

the end of the world is the only thing that turely scares me, this clock is something that's kinda been used against me since childhood (without using the clock)
Whilst the end of the world would be bliss, other parts of me states no, die alone, don't die as a mass, because there at that point is no point to existence, yes my mind is fucked, but the doomsday clock is in my top 3 of worst night mares!!

 

[TheEndof]

I'm ready.

 

[squirtsoda]

Why November lol

That loud orange dude

 

[hatelife]

I find myself thinking thoughts like that too.Last night there was an earthquake centered close to where I live,and instead of getting alarmed,I hoped that it would be the "big one".People talking about North Korea and Iran and nuclear missile fears,doesn't effect me at all.I wish they would fire one right at my house.

same, I hoope I get the corona virus

 

[Soulless_Angel]

That loud orange dude

is that twunt planning to push a few buttons then or something?

 

[squirtsoda]

is that twunt planning to push a few buttons then or something?

Lolz I don't think there's much planning involved

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Lolz I don't think there's much planning involved

ffs Soo november we are fucked? I hope to hell I have managed to successfully CTB before then!

 

[squirtsoda]

ffs Soo november we are fucked? I hope to hell I have managed to successfully CTB before then!

Haha I was jk

 

[WhiteEyes]

Really that's the thing. The planet will generally always be here (shy of the sun expanding, black hole entering solar system, or other such thing), humans are in trouble--but the earth is fine ;) What we see is nothing really compared to what the earth really is.

I think the humans will probably be fine too. Technology will keep advancing.

The US has always been raging or threatening war before I came into the world.
There were environmental issues then too.