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Makes you go hum....
« on: January 31, 2017, 12:21:14 PM »
Posted this originally on faceplace, but thought I'd throw it here JFFS...

Just saw that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock to damned close to nuclear Armageddon, primarily because Donald Trump is, well, Donald Trump.

But, over the last few months we've been hearing a continuous screech that Trump is too cozy with Vlad Putin/Russia. Given that Russia is the other big nuke power, you'd think that a cozy relationship, what with agreement on certain positions and a willingness to talk across those national boundaries, would tend to move the clock farther away from Armageddon.

Yet, somehow, the *expletive deleted*ing ice age chill that Obama had with Putin means that the word was farther away from nuclear war then than we are now.

Doesn't make much sense when you think about it.

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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2017, 12:25:23 PM »
I saw that the other day as well and thought it was absurd.
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2017, 12:26:26 PM »
Some of the doomsday clock time is dependent on "climate" events so with Trump wanting to "deregulate" the EPA and allow more carbon emissions or whatever that would also cause us to be closer TEOTWAWKI.
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2017, 12:32:54 PM »
So, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is now the Bulletin of Atomic and Atmospheric Scientists?

OK!

Makes about as much sense as the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still being about climate change.
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2017, 12:48:19 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on January 31, 2017, 12:32:54 PM
So, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is now the Bulletin of Atomic and Atmospheric Scientists?

How green can we make a strategic nuke?
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2017, 12:55:39 PM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on January 31, 2017, 12:48:19 PM
How green can we make a strategic nuke?

Well you can get a greenish glow afterwards......
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2017, 12:56:45 PM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on January 31, 2017, 12:48:19 PM
How green can we make a strategic nuke?

Very green, since you can wipe out humanity and stop the man made climate change and let mother earth start all over again.
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2017, 01:55:33 PM »
Quote from: dogmush on January 31, 2017, 12:55:39 PM
Well you can get a greenish glow afterwards......

If you do it right or enough, you can get the blue glow of Cherenkov radiation.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/nucleardecay/a/Do-Radioactive-Elements-Glow-In-The-Dark.htm
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2017, 02:20:08 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on January 31, 2017, 12:21:14 PM

Doesn't make much sense when you think about it.


Whatever made you posit that thinking might apply where demagoguery is involved?
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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2017, 02:22:10 PM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on January 31, 2017, 12:48:19 PM
How green can we make a strategic nuke?

Isn't everything in a nuke green? Uranium occurs in nature ...

Besides, nukes are good: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/06/08/animals-thrive-in-evacuation-zone-around-chernobyl.html
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2017, 02:38:27 PM »
I'm not familiar with this doomsday clock.  Is it basically a pulse rate gage for liberals?
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2017, 04:35:54 PM »
Quote from: griz on January 31, 2017, 02:38:27 PM
I'm not familiar with this doomsday clock.  Is it basically a pulse rate gage for liberals?

More or less

http://thebulletin.org/timeline

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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2017, 07:10:58 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on January 31, 2017, 12:21:14 PM
Posted this originally on faceplace, but thought I'd throw it here JFFS...

Just saw that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock to damned close to nuclear Armageddon, primarily because Donald Trump is, well, Donald Trump.

But, over the last few months we've been hearing a continuous screech that Trump is too cozy with Vlad Putin/Russia. Given that Russia is the other big nuke power, you'd think that a cozy relationship, what with agreement on certain positions and a willingness to talk across those national boundaries, would tend to move the clock farther away from Armageddon.

Yet, somehow, the *expletive deleted*ing ice age chill that Obama had with Putin means that the word was farther away from nuclear war then than we are now.

Doesn't make much sense when you think about it.



<shrug>.  Just the mirror image of 0, and his Nobel Peace Prize.
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2017, 10:18:30 PM »
Same crap, different president.

Most of us are old enough to remember the same hand-wringing the last time a chunk of America had enough of the leftist "new  normal" and Reagan was president.
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Re: Makes you go hum....
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2017, 06:48:01 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on January 31, 2017, 10:18:30 PM
Same crap, different president.

Most of us are old enough to remember the same hand-wringing the last time a chunk of America had enough of the leftist "new  normal" and Reagan was president.

Yeah, that's when they set it to 3 hours and 40 minutes after midnight...

And then Reagan goes and harshes everyone's liberal buzz by helping implement the most effective nuclear reductions ever seen...

There was a professor at my college who was supposedly was devastated when the nuclear agreements were signed because it proved his position on Reagan wrong...
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