Comments on: The Doomsday Clock http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/ A collection of Damn Interesting things Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tink http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-25647 Tink Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:34:13 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-25647 http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/doomsday-clock-change-100111.html Doomsday Clock to Change This Week By LiveScience Staff posted: 11 January 2010 04:48 pm ET The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public. The event will take place at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) on Jan. 14 at the New York Academy of Sciences Building in New York City. While the actual clock is housed at the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences offices in Chicago, Ill., a representation of the clock will be changed at Thursday's news conference. (You can watch the live Web feed at www.TurnBackTheClock.org.) ... http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/doomsday-clock-change-100111.html
Doomsday Clock to Change This Week
By LiveScience Staff
posted: 11 January 2010 04:48 pm ET

The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public.

The event will take place at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) on Jan. 14 at the New York Academy of Sciences Building in New York City. While the actual clock is housed at the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences offices in Chicago, Ill., a representation of the clock will be changed at Thursday’s news conference. (You can watch the live Web feed at http://www.TurnBackTheClock.org.) …

]]> By: Amercitizen http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24439 Amercitizen Tue, 05 May 2009 14:43:39 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24439 I believe that is there is a neuclear war and is damages all of civilization it aftermath will be of that of Fallout 3 were everything is destroyed and mankind is barly making a living. I believe that is there is a neuclear war and is damages all of civilization it aftermath will be of that of Fallout 3 were everything is destroyed and mankind is barly making a living.

]]> By: Amercitizen http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24438 Amercitizen Tue, 05 May 2009 14:42:01 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24438 [quote]RubberBand said: "Psh. Everyone knows Canada is invincible to nuclear war. Im perfectly safe for all eternity."[/quote] How is canada safe from Nuclear war no one is [quote]RubberBand said: “Psh. Everyone knows Canada is invincible to nuclear war. Im perfectly safe for all eternity.”[/quote]

How is canada safe from Nuclear war no one is

]]> By: science http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24193 science Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:46:12 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24193 In I beleave it was january of 2007 the doomsday clock was set once again ahead two minutes to read 5 minutes to midnight or in theory the DOOM of the planet. But the doomsday clock is a little slow to update and in theory inacurite In I beleave it was january of 2007 the doomsday clock was set once again ahead two minutes
to read 5 minutes to midnight or in theory the DOOM of the planet. But the doomsday clock is a little slow to update and in theory inacurite

]]> By: Mirage_GSM http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24187 Mirage_GSM Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:36:45 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24187 [quote]alex212 said: "Jurassic humans were 7 meters tall and by all means able to kick a dinosaur's ass. Fossil bones were found in many parts of the World. Legends tell that before the Great flood giants lived on Earth. They were not just legends."[/quote] I'm sorry. Up to now I was giving alex the benefit of the doubt. I will stop feeding the troll now. [quote]alex212 said: “Jurassic humans were 7 meters tall and by all means able to kick a dinosaur’s ass. Fossil bones were found in many parts of the World. Legends tell that before the Great flood giants lived on Earth. They were not just legends.”[/quote]

I’m sorry. Up to now I was giving alex the benefit of the doubt.
I will stop feeding the troll now.

]]> By: Mirage_GSM http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24186 Mirage_GSM Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:35:08 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24186 What exactly would they be afraid of? An extinct civilization is nothing that is exactly threatening, is it? Also archaeology is probably the one scientific discipline that is furthest from having any impact on military considerations. Of course there have always been scientists who are too set in their ways to accept changes, but the vast majority would be positively exited by the propect of a whole new field of research. Anyway, even if that book lists a few hundred mysterious findings, (Let's not call them "inconvenient facts". That's simply misleading.) that still does not explain how a civilization could just vanish from the face of the earth without leaving as much of a trace. And I'm not talking about ambiguous statues and stuff, but the things that no civilization can go without: Refuse, dead people etc. We have found hundreds of burial sites dating back as far as the practice of burial itself, yet you really think there was a whole civilization with a technology equal or superior to ours even earlier and NOT A SINGLE GRAVEYRD has been dicovered yet? Our civilization produces millions of tons of refuse, much of it incompostible plastic, creating veritable mountains of junk, and this supposed earlier civilization either managed to avoid that completely or else hide it so well, that we haven't found it yet? Sorry, I'm not buying that. What exactly would they be afraid of? An extinct civilization is nothing that is exactly threatening, is it? Also archaeology is probably the one scientific discipline that is furthest from having any impact on military considerations.
Of course there have always been scientists who are too set in their ways to accept changes, but the vast majority would be positively exited by the propect of a whole new field of research.
Anyway, even if that book lists a few hundred mysterious findings, (Let’s not call them “inconvenient facts”. That’s simply misleading.) that still does not explain how a civilization could just vanish from the face of the earth without leaving as much of a trace. And I’m not talking about ambiguous statues and stuff, but the things that no civilization can go without: Refuse, dead people etc.
We have found hundreds of burial sites dating back as far as the practice of burial itself, yet you really think there was a whole civilization with a technology equal or superior to ours even earlier and NOT A SINGLE GRAVEYRD has been dicovered yet?
Our civilization produces millions of tons of refuse, much of it incompostible plastic, creating veritable mountains of junk, and this supposed earlier civilization either managed to avoid that completely or else hide it so well, that we haven’t found it yet?
Sorry, I’m not buying that.

]]> By: alex212 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24185 alex212 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:27:54 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24185 Jurassic humans were 7 meters tall and by all means able to kick a dinosaur's ass. Fossil bones were found in many parts of the World. Legends tell that before the Great flood giants lived on Earth. They were not just legends. Jurassic humans were 7 meters tall and by all means able to kick a dinosaur’s ass. Fossil bones were found in many parts of the World. Legends tell that before the Great flood giants lived on Earth. They were not just legends.

]]> By: alex212 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24184 alex212 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:07:09 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24184 Exactly, Mirage. Since the middle of the XXth century official science had been trying to hush up multiple discoveries it could not explain. Because they were afraid of something I guess. And because it is always hard to admit you were wrong, hard to revise all understanding of humanity and the universe. And keeping in mind that many military secrets were involved it was best to hush up the whole business. Countries could not sacrifice their selfish interests to the benefice of the whole mankind. In 1993 a book "Unknown History of Mankind" it is called, I suppose, was published by Michael Kremon and Richard Thompson. It reveals hundreds of "inconvenient" facts which were concealed. Exactly, Mirage. Since the middle of the XXth century official science had been trying to hush up multiple discoveries it could not explain. Because they were afraid of something I guess. And because it is always hard to admit you were wrong, hard to revise all understanding of humanity and the universe. And keeping in mind that many military secrets were involved it was best to hush up the whole business. Countries could not sacrifice their selfish interests to the benefice of the whole mankind.
In 1993 a book “Unknown History of Mankind” it is called, I suppose, was published by Michael Kremon and Richard Thompson. It reveals hundreds of “inconvenient” facts which were concealed.

]]> By: Mirage_GSM http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24174 Mirage_GSM Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:57:58 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24174 You know everytime someone claims to have that much evidence for his theories, I ask myself why he hasn't published them and become famous yet... Some people seem to like to make their claims from obscurity. all it would take would be to publish the stuff for other archaeologists to review. As long as they don't do that, I tend to assume they are aware that their "evidence" would not hold up to professional scrutiny. [quote]1)Egypt: the scientists have made an inspection of the surfaces of stones of which the Great pyramid, the Temple of Osiris, and many other objects were built. They found traces of such technologies for instance as ultrasonic drills and diamond impregnated saw.[/quote] Those scientists claim to be able to discern the exact methods of manipulation after more than 3.000 years worth of erosion? CSI would go green with envy... [quote]2) America: Do you know that the US strategic bomber "blackbird" and space shuttle Columbia were built according to a prototype -a golden figure of a bird found in the pre-historic burial place of American Indians. The fact is that this figure is not a bird but a scrupulous model of a pre-historic ultrasonic plane. When they put it into the wind tunnel, they found that no existing aeroplane had such magnifiscent aerodynamic qualities.[/quote] Or maybe it was... You know... a bird? Evloution has created many designs that are still superior to our current technology. [quote]3)Latin America The examination of Incan cities showed that some structures were created with the use of a technology of "liquid stone" absolutely unavailable even today. The gigantic 300-ton blocks are welded together with precision of microns. [/quote] Again, measurements in the range of microns after millenia of erosion? The erosion has to be several orders of magnitude more than that. [quote]If you still think that our predecessors were monkeys, I will give you more material. Even video material."[/quote] I don't think our predecessors were monkeys. If you talk about our evolutionary predecessors, they were apes (grossly simplified) and if you talk about our cultural predecessors, I value their achievements even more highly, BECAUSE they did it without having access to modern technology. If there had been an advanced civilization before ours, we would have found far more than a statue or two. We would have found cities, graveyards, PLASTIC (it doesn't corrode, you know...) and much more. When your scientist friends have found that, I'll be glad to give their opinions another review. You know everytime someone claims to have that much evidence for his theories, I ask myself why he hasn’t published them and become famous yet… Some people seem to like to make their claims from obscurity. all it would take would be to publish the stuff for other archaeologists to review. As long as they don’t do that, I tend to assume they are aware that their “evidence” would not hold up to professional scrutiny.

[quote]1)Egypt: the scientists have made an inspection of the surfaces of stones of which the Great pyramid, the Temple of Osiris, and many other objects were built. They found traces of such technologies for instance as ultrasonic drills and diamond impregnated saw.[/quote]
Those scientists claim to be able to discern the exact methods of manipulation after more than 3.000 years worth of erosion? CSI would go green with envy…

[quote]2) America:
Do you know that the US strategic bomber “blackbird” and space shuttle Columbia were built according to a prototype -a golden figure of a bird found in the pre-historic burial place of American Indians. The fact is that this figure is not a bird but a scrupulous model of a pre-historic ultrasonic plane. When they put it into the wind tunnel, they found that no existing aeroplane had such magnifiscent aerodynamic qualities.[/quote]
Or maybe it was… You know… a bird? Evloution has created many designs that are still superior to our current technology.
[quote]3)Latin America
The examination of Incan cities showed that some structures were created with the use of a technology of “liquid stone” absolutely unavailable even today. The gigantic 300-ton blocks are welded together with precision of microns. [/quote]
Again, measurements in the range of microns after millenia of erosion? The erosion has to be several orders of magnitude more than that.
[quote]If you still think that our predecessors were monkeys, I will give you more material. Even video material.”[/quote]
I don’t think our predecessors were monkeys. If you talk about our evolutionary predecessors, they were apes (grossly simplified) and if you talk about our cultural predecessors, I value their achievements even more highly, BECAUSE they did it without having access to modern technology.
If there had been an advanced civilization before ours, we would have found far more than a statue or two. We would have found cities, graveyards, PLASTIC (it doesn’t corrode, you know…) and much more. When your scientist friends have found that, I’ll be glad to give their opinions another review.

]]> By: alex212 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-doomsday-clock/#comment-24168 alex212 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:49:03 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=329#comment-24168 About the Sahara desert, this is no official theory, but my personal opinion. As to the radiation - I have meazured it myself -the natural radiation background is very high. The fact that the French atomic bomb was tested in this area spoils the picture a bit... About the Sahara desert, this is no official theory, but my personal opinion. As to the radiation – I have meazured it myself -the natural radiation background is very high. The fact that the French atomic bomb was tested in this area spoils the picture a bit…

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