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Doomsday Clock Resets Itself!
A few years ago I came across an oddball internet site devoted to 'Crystal Skulls and Mayan Prophecies'.
It offered the usual blather, but also provided a handy digital clock counting down the months, days, minutes and seconds until December 21, 2012.
The second count changed right before your eyes. It was a sort of Doomsday App. The concept amused me for a little while, and then I forgot about it.
It's now almost 3:00 AM on December 21, 2012, and it just occurred to me that the world hasn't ended.
(No, I wasn't staying up late worrying about it; I had a severe allergic reaction to a medical treatment 10 days ago, and the steroid they put me on to suppress the allergic reaction has also suppressed my ability to sleep at night! It's maddening.)
Anyway, I wondered what had become of that Doomsday Clock... Did it spontaneously combust at the stroke of midnight? Has the Crystal Skull finally Spoken?
Have the Ancient Aliens returned?
I just took a look, and it gave me a much-needed laugh when I saw that the Doomsday Clock has RESET itself!
The 'Hours', 'Minutes' and 'Seconds' counters have all gone to Zero, portending our doom, but the dramatic effect of seeing all the Zeros is immediately nullified because the 'Days' counter has reset itself to 20,000.
I did the math (well, on my cell phone calculator) and that gives us 54.79 more years... unless there are Leap Years in there, in which case I'm too tired and sleep-deprived to figure it out.
I'll do it maņana.
Cheers,
Sleepless In Seattle
It offered the usual blather, but also provided a handy digital clock counting down the months, days, minutes and seconds until December 21, 2012.
The second count changed right before your eyes. It was a sort of Doomsday App. The concept amused me for a little while, and then I forgot about it.
It's now almost 3:00 AM on December 21, 2012, and it just occurred to me that the world hasn't ended.
(No, I wasn't staying up late worrying about it; I had a severe allergic reaction to a medical treatment 10 days ago, and the steroid they put me on to suppress the allergic reaction has also suppressed my ability to sleep at night! It's maddening.)
Anyway, I wondered what had become of that Doomsday Clock... Did it spontaneously combust at the stroke of midnight? Has the Crystal Skull finally Spoken?
Have the Ancient Aliens returned?
I just took a look, and it gave me a much-needed laugh when I saw that the Doomsday Clock has RESET itself!
The 'Hours', 'Minutes' and 'Seconds' counters have all gone to Zero, portending our doom, but the dramatic effect of seeing all the Zeros is immediately nullified because the 'Days' counter has reset itself to 20,000.
I did the math (well, on my cell phone calculator) and that gives us 54.79 more years... unless there are Leap Years in there, in which case I'm too tired and sleep-deprived to figure it out.
I'll do it maņana.
Cheers,
Sleepless In Seattle
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