Five minutes to midnight

[sabotabby]

As seen around:

Doomsday Clock pushed two minutes closer to midnight.



Doomsday Clock? Why didn't anyone tell me that there was a Doomsday Clock?* Also, why don't I have a Doomsday Clock, like, in my room? A little one beside the bed. That would be wicked.

In all seriousness, kids, the end of the world isn't cool.


* Okay, so frandroid has an icon of it, but I never bothered to investigate what it was. I'm lazy that way.

Comments

[culpster.livejournal.com]

Hey, isn't that John McCain?

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

Is it just me? Or does the doomsday clock have mr incredables logo on it?

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

*antisapates the incredibles to jump out of the doomsday clock.

[xol0tl.livejournal.com]

You're right, the end of the world is not cool, but this story became kind of cool when "Two Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden popped into my head while reading it...

[sabotabby]

Is the fact that so many people still consider McCain a "moderate" a sign of armageddon?

[sabotabby]

There is a resemblance.

[sabotabby]

Nuclear holocaust is so much better with an Iron Maiden soundtrack.

[xol0tl.livejournal.com]

Sad but true.

[goodlookinout.livejournal.com]

great, now I cant get that song out of my head! :P

[eyelidlessness.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha awesome.

... wait...

[sabotabby]

...except not.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

And here I assumed everyone knew about the doomsday clock.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

In all seriousness, kids, the end of the world isn't cool.

>>>>> But it will have radioactive zombies; what about that?

[sabotabby]

It's one of those things that you'd think that I'd know about, but didn't.

[sabotabby]

That would be even cooler not cool.

Do I get to fight them with Molotovs?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

see, if you got your politics from punk you'd know it.

The Clash referenced it in "The Call Up"

It's up to you not to hear the call-up
you must not act the way you were brought up
Who gives you work an' why should you do it?
Fifty five minutes past eleven

It's up to you not to hear the call-up
It's up to you not to hear the call-up
Don't wanna die!
Don't wanna die!

oh, for the days we were only at 55 minutes past 11!

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

*sigh* You kids today, you don't know how good you have it. I remember when the clock was at 11:59.

[reverendgraham.livejournal.com]

I've never understood the point of this crap. Everyone's been making such a big deal out of this. Like it actually means something. Like some asshole with an oversized novelty version of a retail shopkeeper's lunch break sign is some sort of profound international institution that has to be respected and listened to. IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF UPPITY SCIENTISTS WITH TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS. IT DOESN'T MEAN A FUCK DAMN THING. Just the other day I was watching TV, as I am wont to do, and there was like a whole hour-long show on the History Channel about this clock. I'd seen it on before too. Like, how do you fill up an hour describing this? It's not a real clock. It doesn't even represent anything resembling real time. It is meaningless. It means nothing. There isn't even like some sort of algorithm behind it or anything. It's just like, a big fucking minute hand. So what? What does that prove? I don't get it. I've never gotten it. It makes no sense to me. No sense at all.

[xol0tl.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[culpster.livejournal.com]

Beat em or burn em. They're dead; they're all messed up.

To kill the unborm in the woooooooooombaaaaaaarrrrrghhh!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that the Bay of Pigs or something? Cuban missle crisis?

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

right, but the reasoning now is almost scarier than the 'innocent' days of the cold war.

[sabotabby]

Well, now there are more ways that the world can end.

[sabotabby]

I am such a youngin'.

[sabotabby]

OH GOD OH GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.

It happened to me too!

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Jesus, I can't believe I still know all the words! \m/

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly! The Doomsday Clock was front page news during the Reagan defense buildup, whenever they moved it one notch closer to midnight. Always the doomsday clock.

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

hahahahahaha!

[sekhmets-song.livejournal.com]

I think I love you.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Are you sure we shouldn't have one in the library. I think it'd look good there.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

God that's an ugly clock. It looks like a blown up RSS feed icon.

[eyelidlessness.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Man, I post this and I get 3 comments over two posts. You post it and you get over 30. No fair!! :P

[sabotabby]

That's a good idea.

[sabotabby]

Did you put effort into your posts? I find that the less effort I put in, the more comments I get.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I feel redeemed. But I just copy and pasted the press release, I should have been deluged with comments!! ;]

[andreazenith.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP.

I didn't know there was a doomsday clock either.

What happens when it strikes midnight? *frets*

[sabotabby]

We all die?

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I will turn that into an icon.

[sabotabby]

Heh, I did.

[andreazenith.livejournal.com]

*nods* Ok, that makes perfect sense.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

Only two minutes? pfft. Screw these scientists, I'll make my own Doomsday Clock. With hookers and black jack. eh, forget the clock.

At this point I just keep my fingers crossed that the world won't end before Futurama is back on TV next year.