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Comments on MetaFilter post I swear it was 7 just a couple of minutes ago...Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:59:49 -0800Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:59:49 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60I swear it was 7 just a couple of minutes ago...
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<a href="http://www.thebulletin.org/">The Clock</a> is <a href="http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/">ticking</a> <a href="http://www.thebulletin.org/weekly-highlight/timeline.html">again.</a>post:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:50:41 -0800buzzvworldpoliticspoliticsdoomsdaydoomsdayclockatomicsciencebrokenlinkBy: roll truck roll
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This thing still exists?comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558075Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:59:49 -0800roll truck rollBy: billysumday
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Jesus is coming!!comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558080Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:05:16 -0800billysumdayBy: keswick
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Who cares?comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558082Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:06:59 -0800keswickBy: MrMoonPie
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<blockquote><i>Who cares...</i></blockquote>...what keswick thinks?comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558084Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:08:41 -0800MrMoonPieBy: keswick
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My point.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558086Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:10:39 -0800keswickBy: DigDugDag
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If only the Atomic Scientists had thought ahead and installed a snooze button.
While the chances of a war in which nukes are used might be increasing, the chances of a massive nuclear holocaust that blots out the atmosphere really has dwindled since the end of the cold war. (I don't think Russia and the USA will strike/counterstrike anytime soon).
On that note it's hard for America to criticize new countries getting nukes when we hold them ourselves.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558091Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:18:15 -0800DigDugDagBy: Burhanistan
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Another online pariah. How cute.
Anyways, I feel old reminiscing about the good old days in the 1990s when most people forgot all about the fact that the entire civilization could be nuked away in a few minutes. Good times.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558098Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:21:18 -0800BurhanistanBy: jefbla
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5 ... 4 ... 2 ... dammit, I meant 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
KAPLOWIE!!!!
We're all fucking dead now. BOOOOOO!comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558099Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:22:39 -0800jefblaBy: melangell
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I think that the present era is my least favorite period of history. Give me barbarians with swords any day over AI, cloning, nuclear weapons, etc. At least I can comprehend the barbarians with swords.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558100Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:22:42 -0800melangellBy: briank
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Looking at their timeline, these guys are not necessarily the best predictors of anything.
I mean, it's dramatic as hell and all, but I'm not sure I buy that we're at 5 now if we were at 3 in 1984. As tense as the Reagan years were at times, things were nowhere near as fucked up as they are now.
Meanwhile, in the period from 1960-63, with the Cuban Missle Crisis standing out as the single event that came closest to plunging the world into nuclear war, they had the clock set between 7 and 12.
I would not want to put money on these guys.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558109Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:30:24 -0800briankBy: StrasbourgSecaucus
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Honestly, most days lately I welcome the bomb. Hurry up and be midnight already.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558112Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:36:33 -0800StrasbourgSecaucusBy: evisceratordeath
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As an Iron Maiden fan, I'm looking forward to when it's two minutes to midnight.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558113Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:36:35 -0800evisceratordeathBy: prostyle
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Martyl Langsdorf had a single guideline when considering the commission: <em>"It should be inexpensive"</em>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#Time_changes">This graphic</a> clearly illustrates the collective result of this endeavor.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558114Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:37:01 -0800prostyleBy: nola
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things are going to suck . . . or not, it's hard to say.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558115Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:37:27 -0800nolaBy: b1tr0t
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<i>I would not want to put money on these guys.</i>
Good thing, they aren't Atomic Bookies.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558117Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:38:18 -0800b1tr0tBy: Mister_A
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Giant premonitory clocks warning of impending doom suck.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558120Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:40:31 -0800Mister_ABy: lisalisa123
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<em>This graphic clearly illustrates the collective result of this endeavor.</em>
wait a sec, are the red and blue dots indicators of which parties were in power, if so HILARIOUS!!!!!!comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558123Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:44:28 -0800lisalisa123By: Terminal Verbosity
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<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#Time_changes">This graphic</a> clearly illustrates the collective result of this endeavor.</em>
I like the little mushroom cloud at the bottom of the graph. It's like a cute little doomsday mascot; Poppin' Fresh's distant, morose cousin.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558128Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:46:19 -0800Terminal VerbosityBy: Dr-Baa
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<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57860#1558113">evisceratordeath</a> beat me to my clever retort.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558129Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:52:11 -0800Dr-BaaBy: bhouston
http://www.metafilter.com/57860/I-swear-it-was-7-just-a-couple-of-minutes-ago#1558132
<em>wait a sec, are the red and blue dots indicators of which parties were in power, if so HILARIOUS!!!!!!</em>
No, blue dots signify steps away from midnight, red dots signify clock movements towards midnight. The rest is just coincidental, or a subliminal plot by one of those crafty "POV"-pushing wikipedians.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558132Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:52:45 -0800bhoustonBy: mr_roboto
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In retrospect, the clock was perhaps a flawed analogy. Perhaps a color-coded alert system would have worked better.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558134Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:54:09 -0800mr_robotoBy: Kikkoman
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Thanks for reminding us how screwed we all are... as if we needed another reason to hate waking up these days.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558144Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:01:31 -0800KikkomanBy: Benny Andajetz
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This sucks- are school desks even big enough to get under any more?comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558145Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:02:00 -0800Benny AndajetzBy: dvdgee
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I concur with evisceratordeath. Additionally, I'm sure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iron_maiden_2_minutes_to_midnight_a.jpg">Derek Riggs</a> could have done a far, far better job with the redesign than those Pentagram kids.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558149Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:02:59 -0800dvdgeeBy: Kikkoman
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Regarding the Pentagram redesign: It's nice that they took it all the way to midnight in their little mockup. They must have been A students.
Somebody should make a flipbook.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558160Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:08:31 -0800KikkomanBy: lalochezia
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Actually, according to the authoritative foreign policy program that our leaders watch, we passed midnight<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=fc6HbARJ_fQ"> Last Monday</a>. <small></small>comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558171Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:14:56 -0800lalocheziaBy: Kikkoman
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Bauer wept.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558176Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:17:08 -0800KikkomanBy: brundlefly
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"10... 9... 8... 6..."
"Hey! What about seven?!"
"Just kidding! 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... 0... Have a nice day!"
*KABLOOIE!*comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558200Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:32:36 -0800brundleflyBy: GuyZero
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I mean, sure it's big and it hurts a little, but to say "doomsday" is a bit of an overst... oh wait... "CLOCK".
Nevermind.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558202Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:34:33 -0800GuyZeroBy: LarryC
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Cold War hysteria nostalgia.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558246Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:13:02 -0800LarryCBy: sfts2
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<em>"This sucks- are school desks even big enough to get under any more?"</em>
Well, yes, but everyone is too fat...comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558261Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:29:56 -0800sfts2By: loiseau
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C'mon, the Bulletin... turn that frown upside-down!
I know who's ticklish! Are you ticklish, the Bulletin? I think you're ticklish...comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558272Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:39:38 -0800loiseauBy: carsonb
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<i>0... Have a nice day!</i>
<small><i>in unison</i></small> THANK YOU!
<small>She's gone from suck to blow!</small>comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558283Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:43:50 -0800carsonbBy: Milkman Dan
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Hysteria hysteria hysteria. No liquids or gels only one hundred mils only please in clear plastic ziplock bags or we'll throw it in a bin and please no bombs because we're sad and jumpy. I made a doomsday clock too; it involves me yelling everytime I get scared, just screaming at my co-workers, "FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT, BIRCHES!" (I work at a tree farm). Lately I've gone more scientific and I started consulting the <a href="http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html">Rapture Index</a>, and every time it rises about 145 I start openly sweating and telling people "I'm nervous kids! Because the Doomsday Clock and the Rapture Index are pretty much SINKED! I mean SYNCHED!" Although very few people get the verbal pun because it's hard to understand it if you can't see it spelled. But that's okay. The world will be over soon. Five minutes to midnight. Almost time for bed.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558288Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:48:47 -0800Milkman DanBy: DenOfSizer
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Oh shoot, that means the Colbert Show is almost over.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558472Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:59:10 -0800DenOfSizerBy: eriko
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You guys have been paying attention to Russia, haven't you?comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558581Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:10:24 -0800erikoBy: cenoxo
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eriko said: <em>You guys have been paying attention to Russia, haven't you?</em>
Russia may be down, but they're definitely not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction">out</a>. What in particular?comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1558769Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:49:08 -0800cenoxoBy: bollockovnikov
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What happens when daylight saving time is over?comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1560152Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:22:22 -0800bollockovnikovBy: LarryC
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Let's finish this up with this <a href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2539720">Fark photoshop contest</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.57860-1560401Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:11:09 -0800LarryC
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