If you don't know what the Doomsday Clock is, it's a symbol that is used to represent the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe (fun, right).
Take a look at how it's changed since then:
change in doomsday clock since 1947, mapped
So with the clock moving to 90 seconds before midnight, this is how Twitter reacted:
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my face when the doomsday clock goes off and we're still alive 1 hour later
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The furthest from midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been is 17 minutes in 1991. The official explanation is the break up of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. But I like to think Michael Bolton's "Time, Love & Tenderness" album had a little something to do with it.
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I fixed the dog water doomsday clock video https://t.co/FIpOqxmc9B
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Fixed it for you #DoomsdayClock
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Breeding difficulty and #DoomsdayClock are trending at the same time, what does this mean
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you feel that shit?? that was me making the doomsday clock go forward by 5 seconds just by moving my magnet's around
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Never mind the doomsday clock. Hereβs the doomsday cock.
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Everyone realizing the #DoomsdayClock is now at 90 seconds to midnight.
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Jay on hearing that The Doomsday Clock has been moved to 90 seconds to midnight
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Why does the #DoomsdayClock announcement look like a PBS special from 2002?
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How I feel reading that the Doomsday Clock is at 90 seconds to midnight after living through 12 years of Tory government, a pandemic and a cost of living crisis
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The Doomsday clock is so mean like whose idea was it to just terrorize the helpless masses by reminding them that billionaires are getting closer than ever to wiping us all off the planet from the safety of their rural compounds and/or megayachts.
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them: βthe doomsday clock is at 90 seconds to midnightβ me:
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those scientists in charge of the doomsday clock every time they get to announce it moved
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I would simply move the doomsday clock further from midnight, thus annihilation averted. https://t.co/n7VuzEtRKO
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"Doomsday Clock has been set to 90 seconds to midnight" Me trying to stop Armageddon by stopping clock before it hits midnight:
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I'm gonna do it... I'm gonna steal the Doomsday Clock.
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The real #DoomsdayClock.
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The #DoomsdayClock is moved to 90 seconds to midnight β³
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Just Trying to Get through the f*cking day. The Doomsday clock:
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how i sleep knowing the doomsday clock could go off at any minute
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The big problem with the Doomsday Clock is that the people running it donβt know how a clock works
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Me leaving wherever they keep the doomsday clock with the doomsday clock up my ass