Well, it seems that, for the first time since 2007, the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is going to move. And, for the first time ever, you will be able to watch online as a bunch of scientists make a metaphorical statement about when we’re all going to die in a catastrophic hail of nuclear fallout. Good times. They haven’t yet released which direction the hand will be moving, which means that it could be better or worse. We’ll have to tune in to find out. Of course, according to sub-par John Cusack movies, we already know when it’s all going to end. Maybe they do too! Maybe this is all a charade and The Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences has been in league with the Mayans all this time! Who knew?
Anyway, they say you can tune in at 10am EST January 14th through www.TurnBacktheClock.org… but so far, I just get an error every time I go there. Maybe the world has already ended and they haven’t had the heart to tell us yet. I mean, if we’ve been at 5 minutes ’til midnight for three years, that can’t be good. And there are frozen iguanas falling from the trees in Florida. It’s no rain of toads, but still! Or on the bright side, maybe daisies and puppy dogs will descend on the Academy of Sciences building in New York, bringing us all together and ending the need for something called "The Doomsday Clock." Or maybe I’ll just pop in a copy of Dr. Strangelove and call it good.