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Doomsday clock

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SideOrderofSprouts · 26/01/2017 16:14

Has been moved to 2.5 minutes to midnight.

[[http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/26/511592700/the-doomsday-clock-is-now-30-seconds-closer-to-midnight]

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 26/01/2017 16:15

No! It's been on 5 to for years hasn't it?

mortificado · 26/01/2017 16:18

Just seen it's been moved!

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SideOrderofSprouts · 26/01/2017 16:22

Thy say they've moved it mainly because of the words and actions of trump so far

It's scary shit

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 26/01/2017 16:48

I agree that is scary shit. It's making me uneasy. I'm going to focus on it being moved back again after a peaceful Trump presidency. This 4 years can't go fast enough, it's like a waiting game.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/01/2017 16:56

Poop

cozietoesie · 26/01/2017 17:37

I had thought it would be closer. I shall have to visit the site.

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SideOrderofSprouts · 26/01/2017 18:58

The closest it's ever got was in the 50s when both the Soviet Union and the USA were testing hydrogen bombs

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cozietoesie · 26/01/2017 19:13

There you go.

singlesoul85 · 26/01/2017 21:15

First i heard of it was on FB tonight! Who decides how and when it should move?!

cozietoesie · 26/01/2017 21:24

A group of scientists on behalf of the 'Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' if I recall?

cozietoesie · 26/01/2017 21:26

Here is a quick guide.

I'm afraid it's only Wikipedia.

Brollsdolls · 27/01/2017 10:47
Shock
megletthesecond · 27/01/2017 11:22

My trusty two 5 litre bottles of mineral water I've got stashed away will see us through Blush .

cozietoesie · 27/01/2017 11:45

Well done, megle - but might I suggest some single malt to go with them? Grin

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/01/2017 15:16

I've told DH now is the time I am finally allowing him to get the multi-year supply of MREs he has his heart set on. We are very close to the American border and I am actually genuinely worried.

cozietoesie · 27/01/2017 16:05

Strewth - MREs ? That's second mortgage territory.

dingit · 27/01/2017 17:04

What's an MRE?
And what would be scary on the American border?
Will they really build a wall?
Sorry, I'm a bit dim.

cozietoesie · 27/01/2017 17:16

Meals Ready to Eat.

cozietoesie · 27/01/2017 17:17

PS - MrsTerry is at the other (northern) end if I recall. No walls there.

Yet.

cozietoesie · 27/01/2017 17:20

PPS - or Meal to be precise.

languagelearner · 27/01/2017 19:20

Will they build a wall against the Canadian border too? Haven't hear anything like that but you never know. The Huffington post wrote about it. Out of curiosity I wonder if it, should it be built, be bigger (longer) than the Chinese wall?

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/01/2017 21:32

Longest undefended border in the world. I don't think they have enough bricks.

cozietoesie · 27/01/2017 22:31

I was going to agree with you, MrsTerry, until I realised that I'm still guilty of old-fashioned thinking.

You know - logical and so on.

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/01/2017 22:37
Grin
cozietoesie · 27/01/2017 22:48

Anyway. Enough of all this doom and gloom. Let's keep Incitatus in his stable.

Has your DH sourced any decent MREs? Smile