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Will the Doomsday Clock be turned back?

// January 13th, 2010 // p2p

- | Cool:- The symbolic Doomsday Clock started ticking in 1947, wound up by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. The time is in minutes to midnight, “wherein midnight represents ‘catastrophic destruction’,” explains the Wikipedia , going on: “Originally, the analogy represented the threat of global nuclear war, but since includes climate-changing technologies and ‘new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm’.The closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is estimated to be to global disaster.” Now “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) have announced they will move the minute hand of its famous ‘Doomsday Clock’ at 10 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on January 14 in New York City,” says Newsroom America , going on > > > For the first time ever, the event will be opened up to the general public via a live Web feed at http://www.turnbacktheclock.org/ . The last time the Doomsday Clock minute hand moved was in January 2007, when the Clock’s minute hand was pushed forward by two minutes from seven to five minutes before midnight. BAS says the precise time to be shown on the updated Doomsday Clock will not be announced until the live news conference in New York City takes place on January 14, 2010. It says factors influencing the latest Doomsday Clock change include international negotiations on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, expansion of civilian nuclear power, the possibilities of nuclear terrorism, and climate change. Tick tock, tick tock … - … .. … and identi.ca More First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi January, 2010 Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. Subscribe to - | | rss feed: http://-/feed -? -