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It's now 2 ½ minutes to “midnight,” according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which warned Thursday that the end of humanity may be near.

The group behind the famed Doomsday Clock announced at a news conference that it was adjusting the countdown to the End of it All by moving the hands 30 seconds closer to midnight — the closest the clock has been to Doomsday since 1953, after the United States tested its first thermonuclear device, followed months later by the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb test.

In announcing that the Doomsday Clock was moving 30 seconds closer to the end of humanity, the group noted that in 2016, “the global security landscape darkened as the international community failed to come effectively to grips with humanity’s most pressing existential threats, nuclear weapons and climate change.”

But the organization also cited the election of President Trump in changing the symbolic clock. 

“Making matters worse, the United States now has a president who has promised to impede progress on both of those fronts,” theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss and retired Navy Rear Adm. David Titley wrote in a New York Times op-ed on behalf of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock largely because of the statements of a single person. But when that person is the new president of the United States, his words matter.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/26/the-doomsday-clock-just-moved-again-its-now-two-and-a-half-minutes-to-midnight/?utm_term=.df75852e3eb1

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Reginald
1 minute ago, Derpplause said:

:giveup: 

I hope we get a few more Gaga albums before it's too late :giveup: 

LG6, Cheek 3 Cheek, A Star Is Born... No more blackouts, no more breaks!

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Tokyo Rose

If only real clocks could just be moved back and forth when convenient!

This is a foolish piece of fear mongering.

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Dorothy Gale
1 minute ago, Tokyo Rose said:

If only real clocks could just be moved back and forth when convenient!

This is a foolish piece of fear mongering.

Isn't the whole point of a clock that it keeps moving closer to whatever point it's going to? How could we be closer to doomsday in 1954 than in 1956 if doomsday was going to happen after these years? Everyday should theoretically be a day closer to doomsday. 

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GhettoFabulous

Yass can it come closer also can it come when I'm asleep actually no I don't wanna die a virgin 

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I want to drink and get high and get in a relationship with my bio teacher b4 I die so nooooo!

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cryingrainbow

what's a doomsday clock? does it have a alarm? i like several alarms pls. :emma:

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33 minutes ago, GhettoFabulous said:

Yass can it come closer also can it come when I'm asleep actually no I don't wanna die a virgin 

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I want to drink and get high and get in a relationship with my bio teacher b4 I die so nooooo!

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I don't understand pineapples, so I don't eat bananas.
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Yo GagaGaga

if only America voted for the right choice

oh wait we did

by 3 Million Votes

But Democracy I guess

I really hope the people who wanted to make a statement by not voting are regretting that they could've helped prevent all of this

We are being run by a reality star, and we are the frightened Live Studio Audience

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FlopSlurper
23 minutes ago, Derpplause said:

:giveup: 

I hope we get a few more Gaga albums before it's too late :giveup: 

THIS. I need more gaga bops to enjoy in hell :giveup: 

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uh-huh, that's nice.

Please correct me if I make any grammar mistakes, I want to master English as much as possible.
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