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Citing ongoing threats from nuclear proliferation, climate change and the need to find sustainable and safe sources of energy, scientists moved the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” one minute closer to midnight on Tuesday.
The clock was moved from six minutes till midnight to five minutes to midnight.
Originally posted by Glass
"My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man.".
-Dr. Manhattan
Originally posted by FugitiveSoul
Does that mean it's almost snack time?
Seriously though, I wonder how much that metaphorical clockhand affects the stockmarket?
Originally posted by Glass
"My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man.".
-Dr. Manhattan
starred.
edit on 10-1-2012 by FugitiveSoul because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Starwise
it takes an aweful lot to make the clock move!!