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Advancing it by 30 seconds seems very similar to a parent who has made some threat that they never intended to carry through, counting 1, 2, 2-and-a-half, 2-and
by sixhobbits 10y ago
Advancing it by 30 seconds seems very similar to a parent who has made some threat that they never intended to carry through, counting 1, 2, 2-and-a-half, 2-and-three-quarters...
If you have such a long established tradition of using "minutes" as some kind of metaphor for upcoming doom, it doesn't feel meaningful to suddenly start talking about half-minutes.
- barnabes 10y agoThe doomsday clock always strikes me more as a doomsday gauge ;)
- bjt2n3904 10y agoIIRC, the Doomsday Clock was about nuclear war. If we're including "climate change", what other things should we include?
- nagvx 10y ago>represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change,[4] and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock It has been this way for nearly a decade. It's also plausible that they are linked - climate change destroying natural resources (land, food, etc.) certainly has the potential to inflict political instability and conflict.
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- gambiting 10y agoI mean, once the clock reaches zero, we are all dead. But nuclear bombs don't fall because the clock reached zero - it's the other way around.
- mschaef 10y ago> a parent who has made some threat that they never intended to carry through, counting 1, 2, 2-and-a-half, 2-and-three-quarters... As a parent, I've taken this through as far as 2 and 255/256. (Although by that point it had changed from a threat to a math lesson.)
- rconti 10y agoIs that what finally got them to behave? "Noooooooo!!!! Anything but math!!!"