"Two minutes to midnight"

[RandBlade]

https://thebulletin.org/2018-doomsday-clock-statement

Just read that the Doomsday Clock for this year is "two minutes to midnight", the same as it was in 1953 at the very height of the Cold War tensions and actually closer to midnight than during most of the Cold War.

That seems absolutely utterly ridiculous to me. Sure there are tensions at the moment but to suggest we're as close now to armageddon as we ever were during the Cold War, closer than most of it, is just silly. By means of comparison during the Cuban Missile Crisis the clock remained at "seven minutes to midnight" - however bad things are now they're nothing like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It's a Doomsday equivalent of inflation.

[Loki]

Depends if the clock represents the odds of a nuclear war or Armageddon. The former is getting more likely (US vs. North Korea).

[Khendraja'aro]

In related news, Threads is getting a BluRay release.

[RandBlade]

Depends if the clock represents the odds of a nuclear war or Armageddon. The former is getting more likely (US vs. North Korea).

It's meant to be Armageddon.

[Steely Glint]

The doomsday clock is mostly bollocks.

There I said it.