I always wondered how they could come up with those clock times.
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Does anybody really know what time it is?….
(I think somebody said somebody in Chicago does).
When I was in college at the University of Chicago, I actually visited the nearby “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists”. In those days, “Nuclear Winter” was the big scare, and Reagan was president.
Some pals and I got the idea of stealing the clock and setting the hands backward to prevent Armageddon.
Well, when I visited the Bulletin, I was VERY disappointed. There wasn’t “a” clock, there were several. Worse, all of the clocks ONLY show the last three hours on the dial. So you could have an omnipotent genie destroy all nuclear weapons, but it would still be at least 9 PM. The clocks themselves were pretty cheaply made. So, the idea to save the world by stealing the clock and setting the hands back was scuttled.
Up until that point, the clock had relentlessly moved in only one direction, closer to doom. Years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the folks actually moved the hands back a few minutes themselves! Which meant that it never was a clock at all in any normal sense.
Waiting on one minute after Midnight...
I think I remember Ralph Lapp doing this sthitck every year back in the 60’s.
So the clock just reached midnight for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Thanks!
I’ve been analyzing the speech of people who describe themselves as pacifists in various ways. Many of them are not what they present themselves to be but rather an opposite. More info later.
Is there free parking for the ceremony?
The Clock was always a Crock!!
It’s been 15 minutes or less to midnight for 75 years now.
Ouch, that's going to leave a mark !
Classic Greenfield.
It has always been the propaganda arm of the American communist party...
It has spewed utter nonsense since the day it was conceived...
It’s always been a bit of a mystery to me exactly what an “atomic scientist” actually is, but I do see that they haven’t gotten any better at telling time over the years.