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Dread Pirate Roberts User ID: 861122 United States 01/12/2010 10:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hands of the "Doomsday Clock" to be moved in New York City and seen live on web for first time ever Factors In Change to Include Nuclear Proliferation, Weapon Stockpile Shifts, and Climate Change; Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Will Open Event to World With Real-Time Streaming Web Broadcast. NEW YORK CITY///NEWS ADVISORY///January 14, 2010///The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) will move the minute hand of its famous "Doomsday Clock" at 10 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on January 14, 2010 in New York City. For the first time ever, the event will be opened up to the general public via a live Web feed at [link to 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. 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. 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. News event speakers will include: * Lawrence Krauss, co-chair, BAS Board of Sponsors, foundation professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics departments, associate director, Beyond Center, co-director, Cosmology Initiative, and director, New Origins Initiative, Arizona State University. * Stephen Schneider, member, BAS Science and Security Board, professor of environmental biology and global change, Stanford University, a co-director, Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and senior fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. * Jayantha Dhanapala, member, BAS Board of Sponsors, president, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and chair, 1995 UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference; * Pervez Hoodbhoy, member, BAS Board of Sponsors, professor of high energy physics, and head, Physics Department, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; and * Kennette Benedict, executive director, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Last Edited by Dread Pirate Roberts on 01/12/2010 10:47 AM "From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17 |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 863044 United States 01/12/2010 11:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's the CLOCK all about?? If we're not in doomsday then what are they expecting?? It's some kinda PSYOP! They base it on supposed nuclear proliferation? quote: "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." |
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Dread Pirate Roberts User ID: 861122 United States 01/12/2010 11:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's the CLOCK all about?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 863044If we're not in doomsday then what are they expecting?? It's some kinda PSYOP! They base it on supposed nuclear proliferation? quote: "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." Doomsday Clock adjustment in 2007, as reported by Bloomberg: "For almost five years the symbolic doomsday clock has stood at where it began in 1947--seven minutes until midnight. But the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which controls the clock, decided to advance the minute hand to five minutes before midnight, reflecting the nuclear threat posed by Iran and North Korea, unsecured nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union and the threat to our security from climate change. "The clock, which has been changed only 17 times in 60 years, has fluctuated between two and 17 minutes to midnight." " [link to www.bloomberg.com] ABOUT the Clock [link to www.thebulletin.org] "The Doomsday Clock conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction--the figurative midnight--and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm." "From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17 |
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snark Forum Administrator User ID: 817630 United States 01/12/2010 01:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | News event speakers will include: * Lawrence Krauss, co-chair, BAS Board of Sponsors, foundation professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics departments, associate director, Beyond Center, co-director, Cosmology Initiative, and director, New Origins Initiative, Arizona State University. * Stephen Schneider, member, BAS Science and Security Board, professor of environmental biology and global change, Stanford University, a co-director, Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and senior fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. * Jayantha Dhanapala, member, BAS Board of Sponsors, president, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and chair, 1995 UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference; * Pervez Hoodbhoy, member, BAS Board of Sponsors, professor of high energy physics, and head, Physics Department, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; and * Kennette Benedict, executive director, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. My guess is that it will be moved closer to midnight...and CLIMATE CHANGE will be to blame!!!!!!!!! T For Texas, T For Tennessee! The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis |
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Dread Pirate Roberts User ID: 861122 United States 01/12/2010 01:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 863088 no it's not old news. The clock was last changed in 2007, and they may have posted its change then. But is going to be changed AGAIN! This Thursday, live. It has not happened yet. The clock is at 11:55PM and will advance toward midnight some minutes, how many, they won't say. Google current news articles about it, they are all hours old Here is the Link to the doomsday clock announcement. Look at the date [link to www.thebulletin.org] Join us for a live streaming of the event from the New York Academy of Sciences featuring a question and answer session open to you, the online audience. Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010 Time 10:00 AM EST (3:00 PM GMT) Online Location: www.TurnBackTheClock.org Last Edited by Dread Pirate Roberts on 01/12/2010 01:19 PM "From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17 |
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