It's 5 'til Midnight. Are YOU in your nuclear shelter yet?
http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/
For those of you unaware, the Doomsday Clock measures just how close mankind is to annihilation (the proverbial midnight). Half an hour to midnight means that there are purple llamas frolicking around prairies of sunshine in slowmo with happy music in the background. One minute to midnight, however, means that we're playing Russian porno-roulette with epileptic crocodiles, and the nuclear launch authority button is strapped to each of the contestants' dicks. (Russian porno-roulette is Russian roulette, except with 6 women giving oral instead of a revolver. The catch? One is epileptic, and the room has strobes.)
The current 5 minutes to midnight comes from Bush's Iranian nuclear threats, plus Putin's announcement of technology to foil the United States Missile Defense Network. The closest we've ever been to midnight was back when the hydrogen bomb was being tested. That was a 2-minute warning. The furthest was 17-minute warning, which was set in '91 at the dissolution of the USSR and thus the _political_ end of the Cold War.
I am thinking that Bush will end up invading Iran towards the end of his term, and get us nuked in the process. Along with that, nukes hitting the US equals four times as many nukes being shipped out, so nuclear apocalypse is likely. With that apocalypse will bring about the end of the Information Age and revert us back to the Stone Age. Electronics will be completely destroyed with the resulting EM shockwave from all those nuclear blasts, and the entire collection of accomplishments by homo sapiens over the past couple of million years will be reduced to cloud one, yet again. World order will collapse, and humans will band into primal tribes fighting each other for plots of ash-covered wasteland.
What to do? Simple. Get printouts of the schematics of every electronic device on Earth, then stockpile them in a massive underground bunker out in the middle of nowhere. Then, you can rebuild the human civilization from those. Then, horde food, water, and gas, and hole up in your mom's basement with a shotty, some shells, and the doors barricaded. A generator might be useful as well, folks.
The question to be discussed is this; how do you feel about the nuclear noose tightening, and are you prepared for it? I'm interested to see responses to this.
Originally Posted by Raype
