Posted on 01/17/2007 8:23:34 AM PST by stm
The end of the world may be drawing a bit closer. Scientists on Wednesday changed the time on Chicago’s Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, or the apocalypse, based on what they said is the “most perilous period since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
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Give a guy a Ph.D. and he thinks he's Nostradamus!
There are people who are scientists, and there are people who participate in/work on the effort known as the "Doomsday Clock", but there are no people who are both.
Since this clock is not "running", but is set and reset whenever these scientists feel like it, can anybody explain to me why this is worth any more than a paper bag full of warm spit?
Two minutes because of global warming. Just another algore plug.
Did they blame Bush?
How close did it get under Reagan? I remember it getting pretty close and it got even more attention then. What a bunch of publicity seeking hacks.
1973 was a horrific year for weather, the worst tornado season in US history. One storm alone produced five F5 tornados and nearly completely destroyed the city of Xenia, OH.
This is hugh! Series too!
I'm surprised they didn't move the clock back at least 1/2 hour due to Nana Pelosi now having the gavel.
Nothing perilous about that period. Nothing is more stable than a single nuclear power.
But a bunch of religious zealots with nuclear weapons, who *want* to bring on Armageddon? That's perilous.
3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you.
5 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, *pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Why change it now? They didn't see fit to change it on 9/11 or the days that followed.
It's a good thing I was in the shower when I heard about the global warming angle. I nearly puked!!!!
I think they are hoping for that "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" thing.
If Pat Robertson kept the Doomsday Clock he would be mocked relentlessly. Since "scientists" issue these press releases they are reported with respect.
Just guessing here, but probably because 9/11 wasn't a nuclear attack, because North Korea hadn't yet tested a nuclear weapon, and because Iran wasn't obviously thumbing their nose at the world and working on their own nuclear program.
Matthew 24:36 - "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only."
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