the End of the World is Nigh
“Ringside seats for the ‘bomb’ were a hot ticket in 1951, when military
and civilian VIPs watched from the officers club on Enewetak, just 12.5
miles from ground zero.” - courtesy the June ‘85 volume of National Geographic. That’s back when the Doomsday Clock was at 2 minutes to midnight.
and civilian VIPs watched from the officers club on Enewetak, just 12.5
miles from ground zero.” - courtesy the June ‘85 volume of National Geographic. That’s back when the Doomsday Clock was at 2 minutes to midnight.
Which brings me to the black hole that could quite possibly be created when they flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider (16.5 miles long, compared to SLAC’s 2 miles), set to commence operations a few months from now; though by all estimates it’d decay before it had a chance to suck in the world.
