Old Analogue Doomsday Clock Going Digital? |
-- Washington, D.C.
By Robert W. Armijo
In light of the Tweets of
President Donald J. Trump about him having a bigger nuclear button on his desk than North
Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un and then wiring it to “The Clapper” at his bedside,
the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists – keepers of the doomsday clock – voted to
convert the analogue clock to a digital one.
“It’s the only way to keep up with the president’s doomsday threatening Tweets,” said a spokesman for the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists.
The analogue clock was
created by a group of Chicago
atomic scientists after the Manhattan Project to demonstrate to the world how close we are as a species to
global destruction by a preventable man-made catastrophe.
“We’re way past a minute to
midnight,” the spokesmen continued. “We’re well into seconds.”
According to the spokesman the old analogue doomsday clock cannot convey the sense of urgency as accurately as a doomsday clock
with a digital display.
“We’re thinking of setting
the digital doomsday clock at 11:59:50,” said the spokesman. “Or borrowing the old
launch countdown clock from NASA and setting it to T-10 seconds to doomsday!”
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