The year is 2008, and we are five minutes from midnight. Huh? On the Doomsday clock we are five minutes away from, well, Doomsday. Not literally five minutes on a normal clock, but five minutes compared to the all-of-time. What is the Doomsday clock? TheBulletin.org explains it very simply as:
The Doomsday Clock conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction–the figurative midnight–and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm.
Simply put, the more we screw-up, like voting for Bush for a second time, the closer we get to the end of the world. Will December 21st, 2012 be the last ticking second on that clock? Maybe. Maybe not. After all there are ways to wind the clock back. To read more, click on Read more…
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