You’d never see it reach 0 because its a warning
You’d be dead before the scientists have a chance to convene to make a decision to change it to 0
Its not a stat in a video game lol, it’s a human intepretation of the current geopolitical tensions, intepretations does not necessary mean reality.
As I understand, this clock measures how habitable the world remains for humans. If we get to the end, we’d say that humans can’t easily survive anymore.
It’s about nuclear weapons and how close they are to being used and annihilating the world because of MAD.
00:00 is supposed to signify doomsday so my theory is that we would never actually see the time set to 00:00. Figure it gets down to 00:05 due to increased global issues so we know everything is super on-edge. In that scenario, nuclear war would probably kickoff and the last thing on anyone’s mind would be setting the clock to 00:00. After the kickoff of nuclear war, I doubt anyone is going to care enough to update the clock so it would forever be set to 00:05 until an advanced race of aliens send their exo archeologists to earth and make the discovery.
Would make a good premise for a Fallout-style post-apocalyptic RPG. The quest is to reach the Doomsday clock and set it to 00:00.
Doomsday. Duh.
