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Chapter 1: What is the Doomsday Clock?
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Chapter 2: Why should we be worried about the Doomsday Clock?
Wow.
Um, it should be terrifying. Pardon me.
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Chapter 3: How is the Doomsday Clock calculated?
I know. That's 15 now I owe. It should be terrifying because the Doomsday clock... supposedly shows us as close as we've ever been to the complete final annihilation of the human race.
How do they calculate that? Is it like pro football focus or is it environmental and political?
The only thing I know is that it's based on a clock and when the clock... Where can you find the clock? You know, it's somewhere because it's... Google. That's a great question.
But wouldn't it every day be the closest it's ever been? No.
Yes. No, they've moved it back previously. Right.
If all of a sudden there's peace on... If you move it back. You know, if all of a sudden there's peace on Earth and there's no war... You can look around the entire globe and there's no wars. I suspect it goes a little bit in the direction of humanity.
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Chapter 4: Who are the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock?
Chapter 5: What does '90 seconds to midnight' mean?
Yes. No, they've moved it back previously. Right.
If all of a sudden there's peace on... If you move it back. You know, if all of a sudden there's peace on Earth and there's no war... You can look around the entire globe and there's no wars. I suspect it goes a little bit in the direction of humanity.
I'd like Doomsday to keep an appointment. You know what I mean? Like if this is the day, this is the day. Like I work my schedule around Doomsday. Let's stick to a day and a time. Do we know the day and the time?
Yeah. The premise of the Doomsday Clock is it says it's a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. So right now we're 90 seconds to midnight.
Yeah, they just announced this. And the people in charge of the doomsday clock is a bunch of atomic scientists. And I see here a photo. Ceremonially, they have a clock that's 90 seconds to midnight. And standing beside it is Bill Nye the Science Guy. He can save us. So Bill Nye is part of a collective that is moving us closer to Doomsday. So we should definitely take it seriously.
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Chapter 6: Is Bill Nye a credible source on the Doomsday Clock?
And so when I mentioned that I should be more... I do take him more seriously than if it were Beekman.
No, I take Beekman seriously. Really? You know what I mean? 90 Seconds of Midnight sounds like a band Jeremy would love. Yeah.
Yeah, I would love them. 30 seconds to Mars, 90 seconds to midnight, you know, same thing. Yeah, same shit.
But this is a children's television scientist weighing in on the... He's still a scientist. No, I understand that, but it's just... To take the doomsday clock seriously, as many do, and I'm not taking apart his credentials. I know he's a very credentialed scientist, but also, this feels very political. Because he's standing next to the clock.
Like Bill Nye is, I mean, I know it's a collective, but he's there. He's among six people that represent the best and brightest of this atomic scientist collective. Who are they? Name them.
Yeah, for real.
No Oppenheimers there. Well, the modern-day Oppenheimers... I don't know about that. Okay, well, I can't... I wasn't really prepared to pick apart the collective of atomic scientists, but I guess I was asking for it when I mentioned that Bill Nye, the science guy, was next to the clock.
Or his atomic...
You know, I mean, for what it's credentials, it was founded in 1945 by Einstein and Oppenheimer. Oh, we'll get here. So 45. Jeez.
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