Talk:Doomsday Clock

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Might be better

Might be better to link than to give the "current time"? Since it will keep a-changing? How about a graph of it since inception? ħuman 15:47, 8 February 2009 (EST)

The time changes only when the scientists meet, annually, and even then they might not change it We can update when nessecary, and I believe there is a stealable graph in WikipediaThe Emperor_{Kneel before Zod!} 20:31, 23 February 2009 (EST)

Does the debt clock image really fit on here? Especially with no text relating it? They really aren't similar... ħuman 16:23, 11 April 2009 (EDT)

It's there for the black humor type lulz. If we keep borrowing money from our children and grandchildren it really will be doomsday. Mega 16:26, 11 April 2009 (EDT)

I encaptionated it to try to help it survive. ħuman 16:52, 11 April 2009 (EDT)

Bulletin recently changed the time. Time to change it again. 134.153.103.121 (talk) 14:28, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

My silly anecdote

This does not contribute to the article but I just find this a bit humours and very stupid so I just wanted to share this. I hope that's ok.

I remember, early this year, I saw an article on Facebook that the doomsday clock will "stay at 11:57". I had no clue what the doomsday clock actually was at the time so I started thinking that the world was ending at 11:57 that day (yes, yes, I'm that stupid). It felt horrible to say the least. I really thought that the world was gonna end in a few hours (I think when I read the article it was like 9 or 10pm), I started sweating, panicking and even crying a bit. I dropped everything I were doing to just research about the clock, what is it, how can it predict that the end is nigh? Furthermore, with me being convinced that I only have a few hours left to live I started regretting all the things I haven't done yet and I even thought about just doing something enjoyable to distract myself from the (in my mind) inevitable death. Thankfully, after deciding to look into the doomsday clock more I realised that the "time till the end of the world" is metaphorical and not literal. Goodness, I felt so relieved that I wasn't going die in a few hours. I also felt pissed off that I got so worked up over nothing. Yes, it was stupid that I thought the world was ending, but for my defence, I will say that the beginning of the news article made it seem like it was the case so I'm blaming myself and the article (but I think it's mostly my fault for I did somehow, last year, convince myself that a zombie apocalypse was bound to happen on Halloween. Yup, I were and still am quite a bit of a goon but hey, since I discovered this wiki my critical thinking skills have thankfully improved). --WMS (talk) 04:58, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Update

Updated the part about last change. Now we need an updated graph. ^{— Unsigned, by: Doomsday / talk / contribs} 22:40, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

The new cold war

Indeed (amongst other things), with the cavalier attitude the US currently holds towards the China-Taiwan tensions the clock is likely to stay at “100 seconds to midnight”. Hopefully the US will come-to from its Reaganite hangover (“ash pile of history” etc.), and come to understand the simple fact that there is no benefit for it engaging China in a war over Taiwan—the US would lose, and an escalation towards “We’ll meet again, don’t know where …” would occur. Leucippus^{Sapere aude} 21:53, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

You raise a good point. I also think it's feasible that the clock shall stay in a stagnant position for some time.--April ^Chat? 22:28, 6 October 2021 (UTC)