Five Minutes to Midnight
Since time began, man has always insisted on thinking what it would be the apocalypse. Thus, Egyptians believed that the last day when the Nile would flood the banks leave each year. That is why the pharaohs were alternating stay in each of the two thrones, symbolizing the two sections of the great river. For the Chinese, however, the end would be heralded by a series of natural disasters, so to avoid destruction when such disasters occurred, the Emperor changed, as it was assumed he had lost favor with the gods. In Japan, the continuity of time had been marked by the longevity of the emperor, immortal being that no one could see. For this to happen, to be very close, as became clear when United States forced the emperor to appear before his people. The end had come ... The end of the country's independence. not longer an issue thoroughly discussed in the mythologies of the world. For example, the Norse Ragnarok expected as a final battle between the forces of good and evil, for the Romans, the destruction of the Eternal City, for the Indians, the last turn of the wheel of Dharma, and the Babylonians , compliance with the 7000 years that the epic sets Gilgamesh.Otras cultures, however, did not foresee the end of the world. Their gods were immortal, and as such, would never be destroyed. Thus, the reign of Zeus on Mount Olympus, or of Yahweh in Jewish culture is eternal. Christian culture will transform this vision "killing" their God. The crucifixion of Christ is unequivocal sign that the end of the world must come sooner or later. That is why John wrote the book of Revelation, Revelation, which tells the final destruction, after an Armageddon with the Beast. After that, there would be the Parousia, or second coming of Jesus. With the assimilation of the Roman Empire of Christian culture, the issue of final destruction is institutionalized, and the messianic prophecies begin to spread, according to the forms he created the Galileo.Nostradamus, St. Malachy, Our Lady of Fatima ... The truth is that no doomsayers have missed that predijesen the end of the world. Millenarian myths, which were distributed in Romanticism, to translate a medieval society that feared the sound of the last bell of the Cathedral of St. Peter in the New Year of 999, were repeated with force in the prelude of the third millennium. The "Year 2000" would bring the destruction of computers and technology would eventually end the world as conocemos.La Judgement date has also been changing as time goes on. Neither the first millennium, neither 1033 nor 1260, nor 1396 brought the destruction of the known world. The latest dates in the past have been the October 23, 1996, the year that ended six thousand years que había calculado James Huser en el siglo XVII; el 7 de Julio de 1997, día en que comenzaría la reconquista árabe de las tierras de Al Andalus; el 11 de Agosto de 1999, una de las fechas previstas por Nostradamus, que coincidió con un gran eclipse de Sol, y en que algunos pensaron que la Estación Espacial MIR caería sobre París; el 30 de junio de 2001, en que, tras comprobarse que nada sucedió en la anterior fecha, se actualizó la profecía de Michelle de Notre Damme. Curiosamente, volvió a coincidir con un meteorito; el 6 de Junio de 2006, el día de la bestia. La simbología del número hizo pensar que el fin estaba cerca; enero de 2007,fecha en que el cuarto elemento (tras el Agua en form of tsunami, the wind in the form of tornadoes and hurricanes like Katrina, and the Earth, earthquakes as Indonesia) come into play. According to the prophets, would be in the Canaries, with the eruption of Teide, and December 12, 2012, when the Mayan calendar ends. Can be interpreted as a change of cycle, which would bring the Age of Aquarius, or as the end of all cycles, with the destruction of mundo.es any case, what lies behind this desire is the need millenarian control world we know. We are doomed to wander aimlessly because they know the designs written in the fates. We need to know, and we turn to the arcane. It is part of a vision the world in which only matter the reason. If the world is embracing, it is discarded. And, of course, the fragility of human beings in the universe is inabarcable.Entre all this welter of theories about the end times in recent days we have known of the existence of the "doomsday clock", a device created by scientists at the University of Chicago in 1947. The watch is made up of two hands approaching midnight. Specifically, the last movement of the experts has located five minutes. There is more than a macabre metaphor of the proximity of the destruction of the world, symbolized by the twelve. The clock is materialized in the first issue of the journal "Bulletin of Concerned Scientists Atomic ", published by the prestigious Manhattan Project, which investigates how the fabrication of the atomic bomb, and since then has changed five times the position of their handles. Today this device is built and can be seen at the university. the time when the world came closest to sunset in 1962, where the missile crisis amounted to two minutes. The maximum strain was achieved in 90, the hand was to get to seventeen minutos.Pero. .. how close we are to destruction? how will the apocalypse? Without trying to be exhaustive, here are a number of possibilities for destruction mundo.es the first place, human stupidity could lead to a detonation of the atomic bomb. The inability to accept the other would put us in a new situation of MAD, mad, yes, but mutual assured destruction, too. Today the enemy is not Russia, not formally exist two blocks, but the seed of hatred is only present within the existing block. Perhaps the actions of preventive war could create a situation where someone with enough money, and lack of scruples, it could detonate a nuclear bomb. The difference between the current situation and the post-World War is the absence of a hotline to prevent, or at least difficult, anyone can press the button. Despite the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, there are still states with nuclear bombs on its borders. Most countries of the former Soviet Union, Pakistan, North Korea or Iran have a device that could bring a nuclear holocaust. This was followed by a series of explosions in string, or completely destroy the planet Earth, or end up forever with every vestige of life humana.En Secondly, the destruction can reach us from Nature, who, fed up with humans , decides to throw a divine punishment in the form of tsunami, earthquake or climate change. Although in principle should not be afraid because this is the warmest winter in history (do not forget that we live in an interglacial era, which means that sooner or later there will be a new ice age), it is well to think of a hypothetical future. The heat will increase and with it the temperatures that will melt ice caps, and will raise the sea level. Soon the coastal cities were flooded by water and its inhabitants have to hide inside. But this is only the beginning. The destruction of extreme weather will get that little by little, the temperatures become lower, much more drastic. Upon reaching the actual temperature, not stop, but continue down to reach polar cold. A more extreme weather will freeze all water on Earth, which, due to our adaptation to a more benign climate, we can not bear. Life in the new Earth will be simply impossible, which, little by little extinguirá.También could happen that the order came from the own use of technology in society that humans have caused. Mass infertility, birth defects, cloning, DNA control, or the uncontrolled use of stem cells, are hazards that could destroy the world. Science helps us to make our lives easier, but requires an enormous degree of control, for unscrupulous multinationals could try to trade with human life. Nor is negligible the decline caused by computer technology. The development of artificial intelligence created machines capable of thinking, and with greater efficiency than humans. According to the laws of supply and demand, all firms would end up becoming a workforce of robots, which eventually put an end to our species. The great development of the Internet also makes us more vulnerable to it ourselves. Highly destructive viruses circulating on the network could generate a problem of gigantic dimensions. Year 2000 would be a metaphor for the dependency we have developed the máquinas.Pero ... What if the end came from outside? Maybe midnight we come in the form of alien invasion. The Martians, after observing how we are carrying our world decide to pay us a visit. His stated intention is to save us from ourselves, for preparing a preventive intervention, although we all suspect that what we really want is the stock of carbon that we treasure. Upon arrival, humans are faced with them. The invaders, after "surgery" with hundreds of "collateral damage", get overthrow and kill the most powerful government leader. Earth is divided between major governments and, after a series of electoral defeats in their world, leaving us to sample their own destiny. Since then, the situation is getting worse not to degenerate into a civil war that will cause the destruction of the species.
aside science fiction, the truth is that if Armageddon could come from space. The brown dwarf that gave us life could decide to take it away at any time. It is true that the credit is five billion years, but the terms can be modified. A global warming of the surface of Jupiter could cause the planet to become a star, making our solar system in a biestelar in which life would be impossible. A meteor with sufficient mass could modify the solar orbit, which would condemn us to death on a planet that never cease to be at night. Another meteor could fall on the planet with enough force to cause an earthquake which, as had been done in the dinosaurs, extinct life. And finally, it could happen simply that the universe implode without apparent cause, according to speculations of chaos theory, or cuántica.La mechanical destruction could be much closer than we think. The clock is worrisome trend: from 90, when it was seventeen minutes, not only worsened. Time is running out, and there is only space for 144,000, and to get ready for midnight. Only five minutes.
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