O Doomsday Clock will be updated this Tuesday (23). The mechanism tries to calculate how close humanity is to it die out. The update will take place at 12:00 p.m. (Brasília time) and will be broadcast live from the US. (See below)
In the last publication in 2023, the Doomsday Clock original name of the clock suggested that it was humanity 90 seconds to midnight. The mark is the point where the hands are closest to the end.
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What is the Doomsday Clock?
The alert tool is created by the organization Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. In her opinion, the watch is “many things at the same time: it is a metaphor, it is a logo, it is a brand and it is one of the most recognizable symbols of the last 100 years.”
To create a balance sheet, researchers take into account current global events, such as: Threats of war, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, as well as some new concerns, such as artificial intelligence. The information comes from the newspaper O Globo.
As the mechanism advanced 10 seconds to the year 2023, scientists said the time represented a “moment of.” unprecedented danger“. At that time, the advance was primarily motivated by the start of the war between the two Russia and Ukraineand the expansion of nuclear weapons in China and North Korea.
In 2024, with the conflict still active in Eastern Europe and the crisis beginning in some regions of the Middle East such as Israel, in addition to the worsening climate crisis, the device should remain at 90 seconds or even Shorten time until midnightas projected by the magazine.