"Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight 287
Arvisp writes to tell us that the symbolic "Doomsday Clock," designed to represent how close civilization is to catastrophic destruction, has been moved away from midnight. "First set at seven minutes to midnight, the clock has been moved only 18 times since its creation in 1947. The group, which includes more than a dozen Nobel laureates, last moved the hands of the clock in 2007, from seven to five minutes before midnight to reflect the threat of a 'second nuclear age' and the challenges presented by global warming. Today, at a press conference in New York, the Bulletin announced that despite the looming threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, it would move the hands of the clock from five to six minutes before midnight."
Iron Maiden (Score:4, Interesting)
The Golden Goose [wikipedia.org] is on the loose and never out of season,
Blackened pride still burns inside this shell of bloody treason, [wikipedia.org]
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun for the love of living death.
The killer's breed [wikipedia.org] or the demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune, [wikipedia.org] the pain.
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
6 minutes to midnight, the hands that threaten doom,
6 minutes to midnight, to kill the unborn in the womb.
The blind men shout let the creatures out, we'll show the unbelievers, [wikipedia.org]
The napalm screams of human flames, of a prime time Belsan [wikipedia.org] feast...YEAH!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies. [patdollard.com]
The body bags and little rags of children torn in two,
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you,
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song, [wikipedia.org]
To the tune of starving millions, [socialistappeal.org] to make a better kind of gun.
The value of an education. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Really? (Score:3, Interesting)
It's the human condition. We all look like idiots sometime. Kind of like this doom clock thing, it's just one of those times a bunch of smart people get together and do something stupid.
As Dr. Manhattan said, (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:First thought... (Score:4, Interesting)
Nuclear winter has been pretty much debunked now. It was a nice scare story 20 years ago but we have better scare stories now :p