https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1498009982272421891

The Tankieday Clock is a symbol representing how close humankind is to experiencing the mainstream appropriation of "Tankie"

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    Does anyone else think the Doomsday Clock isn’t a very helpful measurement of time until nuclear horror when it’s been on 11:59 PM for decades now?

    • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Well until nuclear physics was discovered, the clock was as low as it gets at 12:01am. It took Einstein discovering that one equation to push it up all the way to 11:00pm. Then the first nuke being tested put the hand up to 11:50pm and from there we reached 11:59pm when the United States nuked Japan. I think this is a pretty fair way of measuring it to be honest.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        a percentage out of 100 seems like it would allow more discrete measurements. I'd say we're at like, 98 out of 100.

        • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          That may be, but people love using our everyday methods of keeping time as metaphors. Another popular one involves comparing the current age of the universe to a calendar year. Apparently if we consider this moment right now to be 12:00am on new years day, then the evolution of humans took place milliseconds ago. Wild stuff, really captures the imagination.