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Re:Scientists move Doomsday Clock ahead to 2 minutes to midn... by DubiousPusher on Thursday January 25, 2018 @12:54PM (#16232873)
I'd say no one knows and that's kind of what really makes the clock ridiculous. It's a symbolic representation of one group of people's guess at an unknowable.
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Re:Scientists move Doomsday Clock ahead to 2 minutes to midn... by 13of40 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:40PM (#16233308)
Not only that, the metaphor doesn't make sense. If we were at 2 minutes to midnight 1953, either we're dead now or the clock doesn't work like a clock. It should be the doomsday pressure gauge.
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