Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

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Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:28 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16500567

Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic gauge of nuclear danger, has moved one minute closer to midnight because of "inadequate progress" on nuclear and climate issues.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced the move - to five minutes before midnight - on Tuesday.

The clock last moved one minute back in 2010.

BAS said the failure of multiple nations to control the spread of nuclear weapons was a cause for worry.

The group, which created the clock in 1947, said that two years ago it believed world leaders were trying to address global threat issues.

"In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed," it said in a statement to explain the change.

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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by klr » Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:31 pm

I should have posted this story an hour ago, just to get in before you. :whistle:

But I was busy :comp: :mob: x 100
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:32 pm

klr wrote:I should have posted this story an hour ago, just to get in before you. :whistle:

But I was busy :comp: :mob: x 100
You should realise I'm always first with the bad news even when you are late? :crumple:
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:34 pm

You been fiddling with that clock, Crumple...?
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Rum » Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:44 pm

I saw this item on the BBC web site and I made a bet with myself for a million pounds Crumple would have posted this by now.

I owe myself a million quid and I haven't even read his post (he is my only 'foe' on the forum).

Nice to know some people are so predictable..I suppose. Well maybe not actually.

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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:07 pm

Rum wrote:I saw this item on the BBC web site and I made a bet with myself for a million pounds Crumple would have posted this by now.

I owe myself a million quid and I haven't even read his post (he is my only 'foe' on the forum).

Nice to know some people are so predictable..I suppose. Well maybe not actually.
I'm like clockwork Rum. :smoke:
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:30 pm

Good thing we had that moment in 2008, when the oceans began to recede, otherwise we'd be in real trouble.

And, thank fuck the world likes the US better, then things on the nuclear side of things would be a lot worse.

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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:43 pm

Nuclear science is a health risk even if you study it through books. :coffee:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16501566

Iran car explosion 'kills nuclear scientist' in Tehran

A university lecturer and nuclear scientist has been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran, reports say.

Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and another unidentified person were killed in the attack.

The blast happened after a motorcyclist stuck an apparent bomb to the car.

Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in recent years, with Iran blaming Israel and the US.

(continued, he studied nuclear science but his future is no longer bright?)
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:06 pm

"Iran car explosion?" No space for "Iranian?"

In other news...

England fender bender injures England man.

America aircraft carrier enters Persia Gulf.

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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Faithfree » Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:27 pm

Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight
After midnight always come the dawn ... :coffee:
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:34 pm

Faithfree wrote:
Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight
After midnight always come the dawn ... :coffee:
Sometimes slightly delayed if there's a lot of soot in atmosphere. :smoke:
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Faithfree » Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:37 pm

Crumple wrote:
Faithfree wrote:
Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight
After midnight always come the dawn ... :coffee:
Sometimes slightly delayed if there's a lot of soot in atmosphere. :smoke:
Less UV = less skin cancer! Win! :tup:
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:41 pm

Faithfree wrote:
Crumple wrote:
Faithfree wrote:
Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight
After midnight always come the dawn ... :coffee:
Sometimes slightly delayed if there's a lot of soot in atmosphere. :smoke:
Less UV = less skin cancer! Win! :tup:
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Re: Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer To Midnight?

Post by Audley Strange » Wed Jan 11, 2012 4:54 pm

No one posted this yet?



Really? I had to do it?

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