Submitted 9 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
You’d never see it reach 0 because its a warning
You’d be dead before the scientists have a chance to convene to make a decision to change it to 0
Its not a stat in a video game lol, it’s a human intepretation of the current geopolitical tensions, intepretations does not necessary mean reality.
Yeah midnight 00:00:00 represents that doomsday has happened. Even if 100,000 nuclear missiles were already in the air hurtling to their targets, that still technically wouldn't be 00:00:00
Perhaps then a tweet would suffice?
HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?
Trying to recall the purpose of the clock from memory, it’s supposed to be an estimate of how far away are we from thermonuclear annihilation. Specifically, how tense international politics are, how physically far apart the world’s militaries are from conflict, how long it would take for chain-of-command to actually launch nukes. Are we one bad phone call from launching? 00:00:00 would mean the rockets are armed and in the air, no turning back.
Nothing
Thats what I always thought but it always makes National News and everything just got me to thinking why the hell does it keep track??
It doesn’t. Its a metaphor.
OP, the clock is created and moved my humans. Its not actually something that counts down on its own.
We’d already be in ww3. It’s an indicator, not a mechanism that does anything on its own.
I love that it has the test trails to measure the shockwave.
Don’t let a little thing like nuclear annihilation get in the way of science. Might be the last opportunity we have to measure the effects for a while.
Doomsday. Duh.
It’s symbolic, so nothing, unless someone happens to move it when the carpet of nukes are on their way or whatever.
00:00 is supposed to signify doomsday so my theory is that we would never actually see the time set to 00:00. Figure it gets down to 00:05 due to increased global issues so we know everything is super on-edge. In that scenario, nuclear war would probably kickoff and the last thing on anyone’s mind would be setting the clock to 00:00. After the kickoff of nuclear war, I doubt anyone is going to care enough to update the clock so it would forever be set to 00:05 until an advanced race of aliens send their exo archeologists to earth and make the discovery.
Would make a good premise for a Fallout-style post-apocalyptic RPG. The quest is to reach the Doomsday clock and set it to 00:00.
Nothing instantly. It’s more symbolic. It’s an indicator of how we are doing. Clock forward: worse, clock back: it got better.
Some say it’s the point of no return and we’re fucked from that moment on, regardless what we do or stop doing.
Total thermonuclear annihilation
I’d rather watch that during christmas than another 99 hour fireplace video.
CERTAIN DOOM!
Same thing that happened when the Mayan calendar reset.
Nothing. Nothing would happen.
There would be so much other news that this slow-new-day story wouldn't be covered by anyway. Assuming it even moves - the idea that at 0 it is too late and so it can't reach zero because nobody is left to move it is reasonable.
As I understand, this clock measures how habitable the world remains for humans. If we get to the end, we’d say that humans can’t easily survive anymore.
It’s about nuclear weapons and how close they are to being used and annihilating the world because of MAD.
Doooooom!
Someone would have to write a song about it.
It’s the Last Midnight?
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Trump: since you have indicated 0.5seconds to Doom’s day I gone ahead and waited 0.5 seconds before pressing the big red button they told me not to press. Thanks for your attention to this mat…
100,000.5 years later… Yes, I have in did identified the source of “the signal” that ended all life on this planet.
Patnou@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well If it is the end of the world just want to say to all my fellow Lemmy Heads. So long and thanks for all the fish.