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| Bulletin of Atomic Scientists |
| 2017-01-27 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] As far as I'm aware, the Doomsday Clock has never stood at 1 p.m. or two in the morning or even 8:20. It's always been somewhere between 11:50 and 11:59. So everybody's been frightened since 1945. If you're sitting on the edge of your seat for 72 years, when do you get a bathroom break? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 You have to really wonder sometimes how people who are supposedly so smart turn out to be such morons. Prime Example: Obama. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-01-27 21:25 |
| #4 "humanity’s most pressing existential threats, nuclear weapons and climate change" "and alt-right extremism...and fake news...and..." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-01-27 10:31 |
| #3 people who like to be absolutely certain Upon reflection, not the best way to put it. How about "people who never question received knowledge"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-27 03:31 |
| #2 Physicists, phil-b, physicists. You know why physics is the first exact science (or used to be - nowadays it attracts people who like to be absolutely certain). Because it's the simplest (I've heard rumors, can't say from personal knowledge, that even some physicists understand physics)! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-27 03:21 |
| #1 From their website, We focus as well on ways to prevent catastrophe from the malign or accidental use of nuclear, carbon-based, and biology-based technologies. They appear not to be aware that all Earth biology is carbon based. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-01-27 00:42 |