Armageddon: Doomsday Clock to be set in Chicago | BBC News

For nearly 80 years scientists have indicated how close the world is to global catastrophe using the ‘Doomsday Clock’.

The idea began to warn humanity behind the dangers of nuclear war with midnight marking the theoretical point of annihilation.

Scientists hope it will alert the public and pressure leaders to make the world a safer place.

In 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, based in Chicago, Illinois, set the hands at 90 seconds to midnight, largely because of the war in Ukraine.

Now it will meet to decide where to set the hands of the clock for 2024.

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[ChickenWings]

Now this is the uplifting down-to-Earth news I sign up for!

[jaykay]

Don’t be scared everyone. It’s far more important than it seems to not fall into the trap of creating worse situations for ourselves by collectively being in a state of fear and anxiety. It just makes things worse. This won’t “inspire” anyone to make a change, it’ll just make people more scared <3 love you all

[peterkilbridge]

Einstein supposedly said "It would have been better if I had been a watchmaker." What exquisite irony that, in a sense, Fate decreed that he actually become one.

[Greenpoloboy]

Even in the course of 1 year when it was 90 seconds, it feels way more dangerous now in 2024

[Mrchair]

“The clock is a publicity stunt—and a successful one, ” Lawrence M. Krauss, who headed the Doomsday Clock's group of scientists between 2009 and 2018, wrote in 2020, when the clock setting was moved to 100 seconds to midnight. But Krauss says the clock should not be regarded as a true measurement of risk.

[Sam-kxjc]

Jon Osterman : “My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man.”

[sonk]

Everyone must understand that hatred will destroy you long before it destroys those you consider your enemies, Peace, understanding and love is the only way forward ❤🕊️

[Greenpoloboy]

Gentlemen. It has been a privilege playing with you tonight.

[P-Undead]

Some people will call this fear mongering but it is a fact that humanity can destroy itself at any moment.

This really is the most trying time for our species. It's pathetic that people would rather ignore everything that is happening than even acknowledge the potential consequences of our actions.

[seanparvis]

we are so close to the finish line people! just one more solid push and we win! we got this, never quit!

[menooNFT]

personaly i feel that since last year when they set it to 90 seconds its gotten way more chaotic and dangerous, its deffinitely closer than 90 seconds, i would almost think to put it at a minute

[ErgonBill]

Meh...once you've seen one nuclear holocaust, you've seen them all.

[VanDamn-gfzs]

When the clock ticks to 0:00... Nothing happens

[chriscookesuffolk]

Take the batteries out and we should all be ok.

[ivorharden]

The doomsday clock wasnt changed during the cuban missile crisis. Remember that.

[skullandbones]

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
Winston S. Churchill

[anne-mariechase]

This is such a maddening situation we have to deal with this in the right way.

[donaldmcdonald]

If we keep repeating wars and violence to this extent, humans may truly disappear before long.
And it may become a world filled only with bears, elephants, and other animals.

[Propercornishmaid]

Don't fall for it guys, it's all strategically designed for us to turn on each other, hate, fight, be violent. Stay kind, stay safe, sending love to all my brothers and sister that walk this life along with me, maybe not together but all at the same time. Take care.

[rir.]

people who only fight wars
Someday it will disappear from this earth
and
It becomes a world of bears, elephants, beasts, birds, and plants.
The sky is clearing up
The sea has also become cleaner
The wind blowing is also refreshing.