For anyone who is unfamiliar with the "midnight" reference, I believe Jess may be talking about the Doomsday Clock on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: ht

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the "midnight" reference, I believe Jess may be talking about the Doomsday Clock on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: http://thebulletin.org/timeline http://thebulletin.org/timeline (Jess, correct me if I'm mistaken.) Unfortunately, the clock hands are currently set at 3 minutes to midnight, the closest we've been since 1953. The hands were much farther from midnight in the '60s and '70s.