We’re Two Minutes Closer to Doomsday! (It’s Time to Go Fly Fishing)
By Tom Chandler on Jan 18, 2007 in News, Underground Entertainment
Are you desperately searching for a reason to go fishing? Well, our friends at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists may have given you one of the all-time best…
The Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ ticking nudge to the world’s conscience, moved two minutes closer to nuclear midnight yesterday, the closest to doomsday it has been since the Cold War.
There you have it. According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the nuclear crisis is worsening due to problems with North Korea and Iran.
Clearly, these are a bunch of “glass half empty” types. What’s the “glass half-full” view from the Underground?
We’ve got two more reasons to go fishing - right away.
If the threat of nuclear annihilation isn’t excuse enough to hit the local carp pond (or road trip to the mountains), then what is?
(”Honey, odds are we’re all going to be vaporized in a great big mushroom cloud, I’m going fishing).
Clearly, while some might view the end of the world as a bad thing, here at the Underground we prefer to provide a more useful, relevant perspective.
Go fishing. Before it’s too late.
Source: Two Minutes Closer to Doomsday - washingtonpost.com
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Randy | Jan 18, 2007 | Reply
So does this mean I have to spring ahead or jump back 2 minutes, and how does this affect the earlier change to DST this coming March 11th?
I’m so cornfuzzled.
Global warming better kick in pretty soon or it could be a while before I have a chance to fish without losing a digit or two.
Tom Chandler | Jan 18, 2007 | Reply
Randy; Since the Doomsday Clock is simply a graphic indicator of humanity’s proximity to a “nuclear end of all life,” I’d say you’d want to fall back approximately 36 seconds.
That should give us all plenty of time to kiss our collective asses good-bye.
C4CRaine | Jan 18, 2007 | Reply
In my opinion: North Korea, Iran, they’re too small to be a big problem - if we caught whiff of them monkeying around with nuclear anything in a threatening way “ZAP” they’d be toast. Probably not by nuclear force of our own either, just regular old payload volume! I don’t mean to degrade the value to our fishing time either, maybe you could go with “Go fish Iran/N.K., BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!”