Doomsday Clock

[Jaxon]

http://www.changetowin.org/connect/i...farnsworth.gif

you stole that idea from my death clock!

I so read that in his voice.

[Acturus]

When can we expect the first single?

Around five minute to midnight.

[Effluo]

^ lol
well played

[ringthree]

Haiti earthquake is indeed terrible but believe me, similar disasters have happened in every singe century.

The BAS Atomic Clock only considers nuclear weapons and war when making their determinations. The closest they came to midnight was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The BAS Atomic Clock has been around for a long time.

[xopher]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

[Qalbert]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/3...sday_super.jpg
+
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/images...7897_clock.jpg
?

[Araelus]

Actually more like

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hmencovers.png

in case the whole smiley face thing wasn't immediately apparent.

Spoiler: show

and in which midnight was thirty-five minutes ago.

Or how about the Chronophage?

[Belkin]

This is stupid guys. It's already 12:47am on the east coast and I'm not dead???

How to shoot web >=(

[Seraph]

What happens when shit keeps getting worse but they run out of minutes? Fuck it, I say bring on 12:01am

[Trelution]

4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42 4 8 15 16 23 42...

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Valenzetti_Equation

(Is it Feb. 2nd yet?)

[Klaatu]

Actually more like

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hmencovers.png

in case the whole smiley face thing wasn't immediately apparent.

The only proper response. To be specific.

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/watchmen14.jpg

[Araelus]

The only proper response. To be specific.

http://i584.photobucket.com/albums/s...g?t=1263450664

[Scythiroth]

Didn't even think this was real, saw it in Watchmen and just assumed it was something made up for the movie/graphic novel. >.>

[Araelus]

It kind of loses its effect if they always pick a time within minutes of midnight. Has the clock ever been at, like, 3pm? It's more akin to a scare tactic than a reasonable interpretation of how likely we really are to kill ourselves off.

Fair point, reminds me of the idea from Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything"

If you imagine the 4.5 billion odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthy day...

00:00 BANG!
04:00 rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms

...now wait sixteen hours...

20:30 first sea plants appear
20:50 first jellyfish, and the Ediacaran fauna
21:04 trilobites yeah
21:05 creatures of the Burgess Shale
21:50 plants begin to appear on land
22:05 first land creatures
22:20 carboniferous forests
22:24 first winged insects are evident

One hour to midnight (approx.)
-dinosaurs!!

Twenty-one minutes to midnight
-dinosaurs wiped out

One minute and seventeen seconds to midnight
-Humans emerge

The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.

So five minutes is uh, 15.6 million years give or take.

[guartz]

the problem with humanity now, is that we are all collectively less poetic, then say, 50 years ago.





personally, i blame d&d

[Kuya]

I blame capitalism and hedonism, guartz.

[Araelus]

Hmm, guartz places blame on the right culprit: if D&D was really based on Tolkien it would have lead to the widespread acceptance of the poetry slam.

Adrian Veidt was a geek (evidence in another thread shows RPG players wearing crazy costumes, you do the math) so he would have in turn read a particular eponymous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley instead of making blueprints for action figures of himself during class when the prof was lecturing about Ramesses the Great.

This leads to the doomsday clock being rolled back an hour or so until the British Library's clone of Jean-Henri Fabre and his giant grasshopper appear to -- uh, or it could be the shrinking attention span and growing irresponsibility of the current generation of, um, there was some point I was going to make but never mind.

Don't want to catch any flak when someone disagrees, right.

[Acturus]

the problem with humanity now, is that we are all collectively less poetic, then say, 50 years ago.





personally, i blame d&d

Ron Jeremy and I blame violent video games.

[guartz]

if I can make a humble suggestion, instead of having a metaphoric doomsday clock, we should just adapt a more modern HP system. With a flashing red bar.

[Acturus]

if I can make a humble suggestion, instead of having a metaphoric doomsday clock, we should just adapt a more modern HP system. With a flashing red bar.

Well, about 10 years ago they were going to change it to a RealPlayer, but the damn thing wouldn't stop buffering.