To be worried about the doomsday clock being 1 minute closer??

[PotterAndHisWand]

this 'article' says we are 1 minute closer to armageddon, please tell me I'm being a dick for having read this and now worrying about it!

YANBU, if we survive that long the planet will be uninhabitable in a few billion years because the sun will consume it as it expands. Dinosaurs only roamed about for 150 million years. Its pretty certain we will one day be extinct and possibly the only trace of us will be space junk. YABU to worry about it

You cannot believe everything you read

I don't feel as frightened as I did in the 80s when we were at about 3 minutes to, and I was convinced the bombs were about to drop. Didn't help that someone at school thought it would be a good idea to make us watch "Threads".

Not sure which article SirSugar read.

Its no way as dire as it was during the 80's.

The human race will not live forever if we can't get off this planet assuming that no other catastrophe befalls us before that either man made or otherwise. In a few billion years the sun will have exhausted its source of fuel and expand to become a red giant engulfing the planet.

So far what would be recognised as modern humans have been estimated to have occupied earth for just a few million years. How much time we have is anyones guess

Think we only moved one minute away around 2006/7 so technically we are back where we were around then.

Chynah it was 2010. SirSugar I think the doomesday clock is suggesting more imminent than the expanding sun thing (although longer than actually 5 minutes....)

I frightened a load of year 7s telling them about the sun thing. Pointing out that they'd be long dead by then didn't seem to help. At least I didn't show them films about nuclear apocalypse.