We are creeping closer to the apocalypse, according to a panel of scientists and scholars.
The Chicago-based Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the "Doomsday Clock," a symbolic countdown to the end of the world, to two and a half minutes to midnight.
It marks the first time since 1953 -- after hydrogen bomb tests in the US and then Soviet Union -- that humanity has been this close to global disaster.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/26/world/doomsday-clock-2017/index.html
Thanks to rising nationalism in general, Trump specifically, and ever-worsening Climate Change.
When ever I post these threads, I always quote Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, "My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man."