From the BS File: The Doomsday Clock just moved: It’s now 2 minutes to ‘midnight,’

[WingNot]

 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced the symbolic Doomsday Clock a notch closer to the end of humanity Thursday, moving it ahead by 30 seconds after what the organization called a “grim assessment” of the state of geopolitical affairs.

“As of today,” Bulletin president Rachel Bronson told reporters, “it is two minutes to midnight.”

In moving the clock 30 seconds closer to the hour of the apocalypse, the group cited “the failure of President Trump and other world leaders to deal with looming threats of nuclear war and climate change.”

The organization — whose board includes 15 Nobel Laureates — now believes “the world is not only more dangerous now than it was a year ago; it is as threatening as it has been since World War II,” Bulletin officials Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert Rosner wrote in an op-ed published Thursday by The Washington Post. “In fact, the Doomsday Clock is as close to midnight today as it was in 1953, when Cold War fears perhaps reached their highest levels.”

Krauss, a theoretical physicist, and Rosner, an astrophysicist, added: “To call the world nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger — and its immediacy. North Korea’s nuclear weapons program appeared to make remarkable progress in 2017, increasing risks for itself, other countries in the region and the United States.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/01/25/after-a-missile-scare-and-insult-war-with-north-korea-its-time-to-check-the-doomsday-clock/

[dfwgator]

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[Frank Cannon]

Krauss, a theoretical physicist nutty Lib, and Rosner, an astrophysicist nutty Lib...

There. Fixed it.

[libertybele]

Doomsday clock?  Pfff...all they need to do is look into their crystal balls.   

[edpc]

[WingNot]

Doomsday clock?  Pfff...all they need to do is look into their crystal balls.   

[Oceander]

The doomsday clock is a crock, as is the organization. 

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Earthquake warnings in the vicinity of Alfred Nobel's gravesite, due to Alfred spinning in his grave at warp 10 over what's been done with his money, in his name.

[Gefn]

Sidney Sheldon also wrote "I dream of Jeannie"

He ruled. I think. 

[edpc]

Sidney Sheldon also wrote "I dream of Jeannie"

He ruled. I think. 

I got into some trouble for reading Bloodline during study time at school.  Apparently, I hadn’t learned my lesson from my previous office visit for reading Helter Skelter.