Doomsday clock reaches Midnight
Wilgrove
23-01-2007, 04:53
No it haven't happen yet, but what if it did? What if the global political climate has gotten so bad that the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists decides to push the Doomsday clock to midnight?
Personally I think at that point, I would be building a bomb shelter and inviting my closes friends and families to come live with me underground. Of course if the clock did reach midnight, it would probably be too late since at that point, a Nuclear War has already broken out.
What about you guys?
Trotskylvania
23-01-2007, 04:54
No it haven't happen yet, but what if it did? What if the global political climate has gotten so bad that the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists decides to push the Doomsday clock to midnight?
Personally I think at that point, I would be building a bomb shelter and inviting my closes friends and families to come live with me underground. Of course if the clock did reach midnight, it would probably be too late since at that point, a Nuclear War has already broken out.
What about you guys?
Well, midnight literally means doomsday, so there won't be anyone at the Buletin of Atomic Scientists to change the clock. ;)
Anti-Social Darwinism
23-01-2007, 04:55
If the Doomsday clock reaches midnight, it will be too late to do anything.
Imperial isa
23-01-2007, 04:57
how does that work out,
what one side hits midnight boom the other side goes oh shit we next
South Lizasauria
23-01-2007, 04:57
This has already been said, there'd be nothing to do, all my true friends who have my trust are either people from other forums or they live in another town.
Wilgrove
23-01-2007, 04:58
how does that work out,
what one side hits midnight boom the other side goes oh shit we next
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_clock
Arthais101
23-01-2007, 05:31
technically the clock measures time until doomsday (midnight). The closest therefore that we'd ever actually see it get is 1 minute until. The only time we'd actually have it hit midnight is when the missles are en route, and by then I doubt anybody will be hanging around to change it.
Sel Appa
23-01-2007, 05:33
I think they'd have a few minutes to change it. And also, all the nukes ever made cannot wipe out the entire face of the earth all at once. Ther has to be some parts leftover.
Bazalonia
23-01-2007, 05:36
Copied from the Doomsday Clock wiki
# 1991 - United States and Soviet Union sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Clock changed to seventeen minutes to midnight (seven minutes further, its greatest distance from midnight so far).
Sorry... I just don't have any respect for this anymore.... 17 minutes to doomsday? being the furthest away?
Sorry... That's just too alarmist for me.
South Lizasauria
23-01-2007, 05:38
I think they'd have a few minutes to change it. And also, all the nukes ever made cannot wipe out the entire face of the earth all at once. Ther has to be some parts leftover.
Not so, there are over thousands of warheads of various types in many countries arsenal I hear. Each way smaller and more devastating than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Everywhere on earth known to mankind would be bathed in radiation and other unsafe substances within the warheads.
The Scandinvans
23-01-2007, 05:47
No, the clock reache midnight when we of NSG take our rightful places as rulers of ze world and bring on the order we shall bring an end of our oppression and a new wave of oppression shall sweep the world.:p
Arthais101
23-01-2007, 05:50
Copied from the Doomsday Clock wiki
# 1991 - United States and Soviet Union sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Clock changed to seventeen minutes to midnight (seven minutes further, its greatest distance from midnight so far).
Sorry... I just don't have any respect for this anymore.... 17 minutes to doomsday? being the furthest away?
Sorry... That's just too alarmist for me.
The doomsday clock, I believe, only runs from 11 to 12. 11 being total world peace, absolute disarmament and full military decomission.
Given that this is 11, talks to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons in the world to only a few thousand seems to be fairly accurate at 12:43
Dobbsworld
23-01-2007, 05:51
Nine and a half.