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Doomsday Clock ticks forward... moving humanity closer to annihilation than ever before
Daily Mail ^ | 27 January 2026 | By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

Posted on 01/27/2026 2:05:29 PM PST by Ezekiel

The Doomsday Clock, which has been ticking down to the end of the world for decades, is now officially closer to annihilation than ever before.

On Tuesday, scientists with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the symbolic clock four seconds forward to 85 seconds to midnight.

It's also the closest the clock has ever been to midnight in its 79-year history, meaning experts believe humanity has never faced a more dire threat of a world-ending catastrophe than it does in 2026.

The group, which decides where the hands are set annually, cited multiple threats to global stability, including nuclear weapons, climate change, disruptive technologies like AI, and the creation of synthetic biological substances called 'mirror life.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Ezekiel
"I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man"

Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen

21 posted on 01/27/2026 2:47:08 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: DouglasKC

Exactly. The last time it went backwards was in 2010 and I believe once in the Clinton administration. I can’t find any record of it moving backwards under Biden, though.


22 posted on 01/27/2026 2:47:18 PM PST by matt04
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To: Ezekiel
officially

They use the words, but they don't know what they mean ...

23 posted on 01/27/2026 2:49:13 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ezekiel

Just quit fooling around and call it the Republican President Clock


24 posted on 01/27/2026 2:49:15 PM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Phinneous

The progressive sense-of-humor-less apocalypse peeps have decided that the world’s “You are HERE” time to the end is 85 “פה” seconds.

It’s a big number in the Jewish world. 85 letters between the reversed nuns, the revelation of the time machine on 11 Cheshvan in the year’85, 85 verses in the Book of Ruth.. on and on. It never ends.

I was just on that topic, the Book of Ruth, although

Shavuot isn’t for another 115 days. Anything going on in 85 days?

From Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Added 85 days

Result: Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The date—Iyar 5 on the Jewish calendar—is celebrated in Israel as the Israeli “Independence Day.”

https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=04%2F22%2F2026

As you know, it’s directly associated with 85/פה because of the message on the dreidels in Israel:

Nes Gadol Haya Po (פה), a great miracle happened HERE.

Funny thing about 115...

Earlier today I was reviewing the glossary of music terminology, specifically to look up “coda” 𝄌 which is the sign for the place of the end. I still had the pages open.

קודה” מילולית: זנב. קטע הסוגר את החלק” - coda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_music_terminology#C

(קודה coda = 115)

In music, a coda (/ˈkoʊdə/; Italian for ‘tail’; plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end. It may be as simple as a few measures, or as complex as an entire section.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coda_(music)

(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

Synonym: finale

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coda#English

🕛


25 posted on 01/27/2026 2:50:11 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: NonValueAdded

It’s a sham. It has always been a sham. Its purpose is to generate fear, uncertainty, and doubt ... in opposition to any effective AMERICAN foreign policy objectives.


26 posted on 01/27/2026 2:51:23 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ezekiel
the reversed nuns

In all my years of Catholic School, I don't recall ever seeing a nun walk backwards.

27 posted on 01/27/2026 2:53:51 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: matt04

Bill Clinton and Obama.
Figures


28 posted on 01/27/2026 2:55:25 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Ezekiel

The clock was always propaganda to generate hysteria and reinforce globalism.


29 posted on 01/27/2026 2:59:46 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: Ezekiel
The Doomsday Clock ...

Eyes roll.

30 posted on 01/27/2026 2:59:48 PM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Ezekiel

Just curious here……has anyone ever made a more baseless, incredibly stupid, totally unprovable, idiotic and ridiculous prognostication?


31 posted on 01/27/2026 3:01:14 PM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: Magnum44

So where was the clock in 1962 during the Cuban Missile crisis or other times during the Cold War?


32 posted on 01/27/2026 3:03:39 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Ezekiel

I knew it was a mistake when I bought my water bed.
Now I have nowhere to hide.🤪


33 posted on 01/27/2026 3:05:02 PM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: Ezekiel

Shouldn’t it have fallen back when “climate change” was proven a scam?


34 posted on 01/27/2026 3:10:43 PM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Looks like seven minutes till midnight from 1960 to 1963. It jumped forward only because of some test ban treaty in 63. However, they claim they made no adjustments in 62 because it was not “real time“. I couldn’t even find a reference to the Cuban missile crisis in my quick search. To me, that tells you how useless this clock is.


35 posted on 01/27/2026 3:20:06 PM PST by matt04
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To: Ezekiel

Doomsday clock or Democrat clock? If Junkie Jezebel won the election, needless to say the Iranians would have a nuclear weapon and they would have used it


36 posted on 01/27/2026 3:23:03 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Remember their ‘rock’ is not our ROCK no matter how much they attempt to deceive ... It’s in the ‘Hebrew’ count on it!!!!


37 posted on 01/27/2026 3:25:10 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, .........)
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To: volare737
Just curious here……has anyone ever made a more baseless, incredibly stupid, totally unprovable, idiotic and ridiculous prognostication?

Strange -- they always have a lot of schemes up their sleeves to fill all of the time that they "don't" have.

38 posted on 01/27/2026 3:37:20 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel

Oh, crap. Iron Maiden’s gonna have to re-write that song of theirs!


39 posted on 01/27/2026 3:39:48 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Seruzawa

Obviously.


40 posted on 01/27/2026 3:39:55 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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