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Doomsday Clock. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [1] Maintained since 1947, the Clock is a metaphor, not a prediction, for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances.
The Doomsday Clock will be updated today as a symbol of the threat from war, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, as well as more new concerns such as artificial intelligence. It reached that ...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set its Doomsday Clock at a new time that indicates how close we are to making Earth uninhabitable for humanity.
The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, [1] Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse[2][3]) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time —the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC ...
Throughout the history of the Doomsday Clock, it has moved closer to midnight, and farther away, depending upon the status of the world at that time. [18] The Doomsday Clock has been getting closer to midnight since 1991, when it was set to 17 minutes to midnight, after the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on nuclear arms ...
In January, the leaders of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the world was at “doom’s doorstep.” The group declared that the Doomsday Clock stood at 100 seconds to ...
Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight -- the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...
Music video. "2 Minutes to Midnight"on YouTube. "2 Minutes to Midnight" is a song by the English heavy metalband Iron Maiden, featured on their fifth studio album, Powerslave(1984). It was released as the band's tenth single, and first from the album on 6 August 1984. It rose to number 11 on the UK Singles Chartand number 25 on BillboardTop ...