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October 17, 2024 2 mins
Melissa Forman talks about how the doomsday clock has changed. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Well, listen, there's something called a doomsday clock.

(00:02):
It's in New York and it like counts down. I
think to our doom and Sam and AJ live in
New York.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
My step songs, and they always say how people just
like walk right by it.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's like whatever, yeah, oh, next year is supposed to
be doomed today, but nobody really.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Pays attention anyway.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
The bottom line is the world might end in a
variety of, you know, awful ways, but you can cross
this one off your list now.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Apparently the world will not come to an end from this.
Do you want to know what it is? Or should
I keep it to myself?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I do, Well, go ahead, tell me what do you
think it is? That we will not end? But the
world will not end? And you think of will land end? Yeah,
will not end by this? Before I tell you? Can
you think of.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm gonna say, by a fire?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh a fire?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well kind of actually, you're kind of right, yes, okay,
you can cross if you had this on your bingo card.
Asteroid asteroid storms. The end of the world apparently will
not come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes. So
kind of like you're right, because that would hit the
ground and cause all these fires, and you know, blah
blah blah.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
So there's a new scene.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I would think that that could still happen. I mean
that it doesn't seem like I mean, it seems like
a possibility.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
No, astronomers now found that this doomsday theory is highly
unlikely because there are fewer dangerously larger asteroids near Earth
than previously believed. This is from the American Astronomical Society's
Division for Planetary Sciences.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So they said, yeah, like in the old days they thought, Wow,
this big asteroid's gonna come and a lot of them
are zooming past Earth. One's gonna hit. That'll be it.
And now they feel pretty comfortable and safe that that's
not it. So good news. So that movie was it?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
This is the end with Oh my god, this it's
the funniest movie the face of the planet.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Remember that with oh oh what's his name?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Everybody was in it, you know, did you ever see
this as the end? No?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh, Jim always the best movie. Jonah Hill, that was it?
Oh my oh yew Okay, So that's not how it's
going to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, So there may be a myriad of other things.
But at least that's not it.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
And I just wanted to write so the like a
volcano or hurricane or King Kong, those things could.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Still are still on there. Yes, they're still in the running. Yeah,
King Kong in the running.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Still on there, or some sides of Star Wars, you
know that's still on there. Lock this monster, you're still
on there. Oh, Bigfoot, still on there?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Bigfoot?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh, Jurassic Park, if you saw that.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Still. I'm just gonna say, dinosaurs like coming back to life?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, still get to go.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Still, that would be scary one. And if dinosaurs came
back to life.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, I'm hoping they All of these are you know,
crossed off the list one at a time.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
But okay, there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Happy news today, Happy news
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