Doomsday Clock nearing 'midnight'

[animal magic]

The keepers of the so-called Doomsday Clock - which counts down to nuclear Armageddon - will on Wednesday move its hands forward for the first time in four years.

The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists magazine said it was now the "most perilous period" since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Since 1947 the clock, with midnight representing nuclear apocalypse, has appeared on the cover of the magazine, which was founded by University of Chicago physicists alarmed about the dangers of the nuclear age.

The minute hand was last moved in February 2002, when it was pushed forward by two minutes, to seven minutes to midnight.

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will be among scientists who speak when the Bulletin announces how far the hands will be moved this time.

The magazine said the "major step" reflected growing concerns about a "second nuclear age" marked by grave threats including nuclear ambitions in Iran and North Korea and unsecured nuclear materials in Russia and elsewhere.

The continuing "launch-ready" status of 2,000 of the 25,000 nuclear weapons held by the US and Russia, was also a problem, as was escalating terrorism.

The magazine said new pressure from climate change for expanded civilian nuclear power could increase proliferation risks.

The closest the clock has come to midnight is just two minutes away. That was in 1953, when the US and the Soviet Union tested thermonuclear devices within nine months of each other.

In 1991, in a wave of optimism at the end of the Cold War, it was set the furthest away, at 17 minutes to midnight.

[Guest]

That's shitty.

[Jaco_Pastorious]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/Iron_Maiden_-_Two_Minutes_to_Midnight.jpg/200px-Iron_Maiden_-_Two_Minutes_to_Midnight.jpg


Two Minutes To Midnight (1984)



Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we dont need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Heres my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

Chorus
The killers breed or the demons seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedoms stain,
But dont you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb.

The blind men shout let the creatures out
Well show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time belsen feast...yeah!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.

Chorus

The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.

Chorus

Midnight...all night...

[Guest]

:rock:

[Jaco_Pastorious]

:rock:



Still have the 7" single of that. :rock: Was a happy eleven year old when the Powerslave album came out. :rock: :rock:

[Guest]

Still have the 7" single of that. :rock: Was a happy eleven year old when the Powerslave album came out. :rock: :rock:

You have the same age as me then. :handshake:

[Jaco_Pastorious]

You have the same age as me then. :handshake:



Actually it is you that is the same age with me.:bird: Not me being the same age as you.

[Guest]

Actually it is you that is the same age with me.:bird: Not me being the same age as you.

:finger:

[Ketario]

Actually it is you that is the same age with me.:bird: Not me being the same age as you.

Its this kind of mindless tit for tat aggression thats bringing the clock hands closer to Doomsday.

The irony.

The humanity.

:sigh:

[Red Chilli]

What is the point of that clock?

[scully]

The minute hand was last moved in February 2002, when it was pushed forward by two minutes, to seven minutes to midnight.


That was obviously a Wah! fan playing silly buggers.

[Neil Young]

That was obviously a Wah! fan playing silly buggers.
You'd better scream.

[scully]

OK then: aaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Neil Young]

You'd better scream and rant and rave.

[The Glove]

Its this kind of mindless tit for tat aggression thats bringing the clock hands closer to Doomsday.

The irony.

The humanity.

:sigh:


No one thinks of the children.

[Kaip]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/Iron_Maiden_-_Two_Minutes_to_Midnight.jpg/200px-Iron_Maiden_-_Two_Minutes_to_Midnight.jpg


Two Minutes To Midnight (1984)



Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we dont need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Heres my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

Chorus
The killers breed or the demons seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedoms stain,
But dont you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb.

The blind men shout let the creatures out
Well show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time belsen feast...yeah!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.

Chorus

The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.

Chorus

Midnight...all night...




:rock: :rock: :rock:

[Abdul Alhazred]

If these feckers could only read the stars, they wouldn't waste time p1ssing around with hypothetical clocks, they'd be busy fortifying the domes.

Cthulhu fhtagn.

[Rich]

Do you think the blokes that change the clock will give a damn if they have to change it to midnight?

Might as well start the looting then, for what good it'll do yer.

[Jaco_Pastorious]

If these feckers could only read the stars, they wouldn't waste time p1ssing around with hypothetical clocks, they'd be busy fortifying the domes.

Cthulhu fhtagn.



So when do you expect Cthulhu to come out of R'lyeh? Would like to know in advance as traffic would be a nightmare that day. :)

[Jimthered]

Dont worry about it, the clocks go back again soon anyways, so it will be one hour and 7 minutes to midnight.

You can all relax.

[animal magic]

Dont worry about it, the clocks go back again soon anyways, so it will be one hour and 7 minutes to midnight.

You can all relax.

:haha:

[Jimthered]

Hang on, do they go forwards or backwards ?

If they go forwards then we are all well done in come March.

[animal magic]

Hang on, do they go forwards or backwards ?

If they go forwards then we are all well done in come March.

they go forwards

[andyinswinton]

they go forwards

I guess we are all fcuked then!

Nice knowing you all. :handshake:

[Jimthered]

Hold on a minute, are these physicists changing the time the same ones that gave us quantum physics ??

If so, I wouldnt believe a word they say.

Bloody theorists.

[Abdul Alhazred]

So when do you expect Cthulhu to come out of R'lyeh? Would like to know in advance as traffic would be a nightmare that day. :)


You're not cleared for that. The Boxing Day tsunami was a false alarm.

Auckland will receive IT first though, so depending on excat timing you may get an antipodean preview of what's coming

:respect: :respect: :respect:

[Jaco_Pastorious]

You're not cleared for that. The Boxing Day tsunami was a false alarm.

Auckland will receive IT first though, so depending on excat timing you may get an antipodean preview of what's coming

:respect: :respect: :respect:







:handshake:

[fah-q]

Is this a wind up clock or one with batteries?