Doomsday Clock Moved 1 Minute Closer to Midnight

The Fukushima nuclear disaster and interest in nuclear power from Turkey, Indonesia and the UAE raised scientists' concern about the threat of humanity's destruction.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... D_20120111

CinnamonGirl wrote: The Fukushima nuclear disaster and interest in nuclear power from Turkey, Indonesia and the UAE raised scientists' concern about the threat of humanity's destruction.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... D_20120111

Couldn't happen to a nicer planet.

Political stunt.

Point 1: The Clock is supposed to express scientist opinion about the possibility of destruction from nuclear or biological war.

Point 2: The factors that apparently motivated them to move the hand forward --- are related to civilian, non-military use of nuclear power, and an accident at a civilian nuclear installation. It has NOTHING to do with warfare.

Iran might be a valid reason.

You know what worried me more than this was the solar fusion idea of having a mini sun in a contained area for energy. I think we may blow ourselves up with our search for energy. And I mean inadvertently.

Let's say someone figures out how to use ocean water as a way to power vehicles. If you start draining the ocean THAT will affect the rest of the planet too. This is about balance and playing with mother nature.

CinnamonGirl wrote: You know what worried me more than this was the solar fusion idea of having a mini sun in a contained area for energy. I think we may blow ourselves up with our search for energy. And I mean inadvertently.

Let's say someone figures out how to use ocean water as a way to power vehicles. If you start draining the ocean THAT will affect the rest of the planet too. This is about balance and playing with mother nature.

You can monitor the solar fusion experiments in the collider at the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams...

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

CinnamonGirl wrote: You know what worried me more than this was the solar fusion idea of having a mini sun in a contained area for energy. I think we may blow ourselves up with our search for energy. And I mean inadvertently.

Let's say someone figures out how to use ocean water as a way to power vehicles. If you start draining the ocean THAT will affect the rest of the planet too. This is about balance and playing with mother nature.

You can monitor the solar fusion experiments in the collider at the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams...

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

How does that help?

CinnamonGirl wrote:

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

CinnamonGirl wrote: You know what worried me more than this was the solar fusion idea of having a mini sun in a contained area for energy. I think we may blow ourselves up with our search for energy. And I mean inadvertently.

Let's say someone figures out how to use ocean water as a way to power vehicles. If you start draining the ocean THAT will affect the rest of the planet too. This is about balance and playing with mother nature.

You can monitor the solar fusion experiments in the collider at the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams...

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

How does that help?

Did you click on the link? Nooooooo... click on the link, watch what's going on and get back to me.

I don't care about it.

CinnamonGirl wrote: I don't care about it.

Then you missed a good laugh for a Friday. Grump.