When will the Mankind dissapear?
This is a question with no answer, but probably Mankind will destroy itself in the foreseeable future launching some sort of apocalyptic bomb, destroying the Earth or exhausting the natural resources. To evaluate the risk of Human obliteration, the Doomsday Clock was ideated after the World War II. Let’s explain a little about this peculiar clock.
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock created in 1947 by the Board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, located at Chicago’s University.
The idea of this special clock is simple, the midnight means the Human total and catastrophic obliteration and this clock always points at a certain number of minutes to midnight. Originally, this clocks represented the likelihood of global nuclear threaten, but nowadays it includes other kind of circumstances that could infringe irreparable damage to the Mankind, such as the climate change, geopolitical conflicts, development of new types of Artificial Intelligence or nanoscience, and so on.
This clock is tuned up periodically, the last revision has been done this year, and the clock was set to two minutes to midnight.
The idea of using a clock to represent the threat is because clocks symbolize emergency and the midnight recalls the Apocalipsis. Currently, the clock is the nearest to midnight it has ever been, pointing at 2 minutes to midnight. Well, in 1953 it also pointed to 2 minutes to midnight, but it was in the middle of the Cold war and with the USA and URSS launching and testing nuclear devices everyday…
Doomsday clock historical data
Who will be the one that will move forward the clock to the midnight?
Maybe Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un?
Maybe a scientist creating a new Terminator?
We don’t know, but you can pay attention to the Doomsday Clock in order to know if you should get water and food supplies...
Now I let you with the great Iron Maiden’s song “Two minutes to midnight” that, of course, talks about this topic
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