The Doomsday Clock
Wikipedia defines the "Doomsday Clock" as "a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, that uses the analogy of the human species being at a time that is "minutes to midnight", wherein midnight represents "catastrophic destruction".
What the Doomsday Clock really shows us is that the biggest brains in science are just as easily blown around by political fashion as everyone else.
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Is that thing still around? It has a dynamic range of about 5 minutes.
Theocritus or the clock?
I saw a documentary about this clock and the people who did it--I recognized leftist lunacy right away. It's in the corners of the eyes, you know.
There's a delightful episode of House with a loony leftie demonstrator who, of course, gets sick. He is yelling about clean water and how every child is as important as his child, and without it being a polemic for the right it shows him up to be the buffoon that he is.
House finds the reason and says to the wife, "Now the bad news. You'll have to listen to that."