Are the luckiest scientists in the world. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has announced that they will be moving the hands of their famous "Doomsday Clock" via live web feed this afternoon. The last time the clock hands were moved was in 2007, when they were moved to the five minutes to midnight position to call attention to the failure to solve problems posed by nuclear war.
Speculation is that the BAS will do their peeps in climatology (who, after all, are still feeling a bit wounded by Climategate) a proper by moving the hand closer to midnight to reflect the growing global menace posed by anthropogenic global warming.
Personally I feel the global threat posed by Islamic jihadists to be a bit more menacing and immediate, but AGW "deniers" aren't known to break into people's homes brandishing axes when their sensibilities are called into question.
Update: Whoops, I never could tell time correctly. The BAS has decided to move the had back to 6 minutes to midnight, citing (ever-so-subtly) the tireless efforts of The One in reducing the world's nuclear arsenals, lowering sea levels and healing the planet.
Remember folks, in setting your Doomsday Clocks, it's Conservatives forward, Obama back...
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I have no special insight into the psyche of lab rats, eh I mean scientists, but for a few years I did work around research facilities at Duke, EPA, NIEHS etc. Having spent a little time around these people, it's my opinion that if the truth were known, most would have webbed feet. About 20% can carry on a conversation normally and are actually quite brilliant. They are knowledgeable, well read, fascinating people, and again brilliant. The remaining 80% vary from the merely weird to the "hair standing up on the back of your neck" scary. You know, the Ted Kaczynski Unibomber type.
So, I don't put too much stock in what these eggheads have to say. Apart from what they do, most couldn't hold down a job at Burger King.
I was going to leave a smart-ass remark first thing this morning along the lines of, "If it moves closer to midnight, it is because of the conservative, Republican, global warmers. If it moves back from midnight, it is because of Obama."
But I thought better about making such a gratutious swipe at the libbys.
My God, I now see it has been moved a mintue back and they give credit to... Obama.
Liberals have become such predictable, two dimensional, cartoons.
Wow, truly incredible.
They believe (rightly so) that their supporters are so lacking in the most basic intelligence or common sence that this will be another way to bring in their votes.
It is no coincidence that democrat and disgusting both begin with the letter d as does thir constituancy dummies.
Always wondered why they called it political "science". Now I get it.
Smootfur, how many obamatards do you imagine even know what the Doomsday Clock is? This just gives the BAS a chance to become relevent.
If time is money, then applying the symmetric property of equality, money is time. At the rate the "progressives" are spending money, I'd say anyone who tries to move the minute hand in either direction (or the hour hand for that matter) using his own human hands, is likely to find himself needing a hand (and a tourniquet). The speed of the hands on the progressive/liberal (distinction without a difference) money spending clock makes a Dr. Evil buzz saw look like one of those squeeze bottle spritzer fans women, children and progressive men use at the beach.
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