TIL The Doomsday Clock was initially set to seven minutes to midnight purely because the artist, Martyl Langsdorf, thought it looked aesthetically right.
https://physicsworld.com/a/a-brief-history-of-the-doomsday-clock-from-nuclear-risk-to-pandemics-and-climate-change/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gopepm/til_the_doomsday_clock_was_initially_set_to_seven/
https://physicsworld.com/a/a-brief-history-of-the-doomsday-clock-from-nuclear-risk-to-pandemics-and-climate-change/
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A brief history of the Doomsday Clock: from nuclear risk to pandemics and climate change – Physics World
The clock indicating how near we are to a humanity-ending catastrophe has never been this close to midnightJames Dacey (Physics World)
