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echo: barktopus
to: Gary Wiltshire
from: Gene McAloon
date: 2004-06-03 13:06:16
subject: Re: The `Doomsday Clock`

From: Gene McAloon 

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:09:42 -0400, "Gary Wiltshire"
 wrote:

>The numbers pulled out of their asses is the decision of what *proportion*
>to use to translate arms figures, etc., to clock times.  To here them
>blather, we've been pretty much on the brink since 1949.

You are right, Gary. The whole idea of putting the level of danger on a
quantifiable basis was absurdly simplistic. No one but the terminally na‹ve
ever
paid any attention to that ridiculous clock in any case.

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