{"id":205012,"date":"2025-01-31T05:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/doomsday-clock-moves-to-89-seconds-from-midnight-the-closest-ever"},"modified":"2025-01-31T05:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:21:30","slug":"doomsday-clock-moves-to-89-seconds-from-midnight-the-closest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/doomsday-clock-moves-to-89-seconds-from-midnight-the-closest-ever","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Clock Moves to 89 Seconds From Midnight, The Closest Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oqifSCvzaFI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can stop a clock from ticking, but it\u2019s a lot harder to figure out how to stop humanity\u2019s relentless march toward self-annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>The keepers of the metaphorical Doomsday Clock have now determined we are closer than ever to catastrophe, and they have moved the second hand forward by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/doomsday-clock-warns-were-alarmingly-close-to-an-uninhabitable-earth\">one tick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It now sits 89 seconds away from midnight, aka \u2018Doomsday\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can stop a clock from ticking, but it\u2019s a lot harder to figure out how to stop humanity\u2019s relentless march toward self-annihilation. The keepers of the metaphorical Doomsday Clock have now determined we are closer than ever to catastrophe, and they have moved the second hand forward by one tick. It now sits 89 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}