Word of the Day 814
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Posted on 19-09-2023 02:43 PM
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Add to word list add to word list the end of the world , or a time when something very bad will happen : you could talk till/until doomsday (= for a very long time ), but they will never change their minds. Synonym.
As an animated movie,this one isn't too bad. I liked the story and the great action sequences and there are some great fight scenes. But if you're really into the history behind the battle between superman and doomsday and the aftermath(in other words,if you've read the comic version of the events)you might be disappointed,as i don't think it is that faithful to the source material. But beyond that,the movie does seem a little rushed. I think they may have tried to jam too much into the short 75 minute running time. Still,the movie is entertaining. You shouldn't get bored watching it.
Though by the time of its destruction, kryptonians had long since abandoned the worship of their old gods, nor believed in any sort of heaven or hell, they maintained belief in a devil figure; that of the beast that would eventually become known as doomsday. Kryptonians told the story of a rogue scientist who created a being of immense power; a mindless, hateful thing that grew more powerful each time it died. The being was considered to be the inescapable great sin of krypton. The being was considered to be "shik'lrith", a kryptonian word. The monster featured in the legends of the house of el , which prophecized that the the last knight of the house of el would travel to a new world and become its protector only to face the arrival of the being and die defending his new world from the monster.
The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to…doom
Scientists revealed on tuesday that the "doomsday clock" has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight -- the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon. Bulletin of the atomic scientists moved the metaphorical clock up 10 seconds from where it had stayed for the past two years, citing the escalation in russia's invasion of ukraine in february of 2022.
"russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention or calculation is a terrible risk," said rachel bronson, president and ceo of the bulletin of the atomic scientists. "the possibilities that the conflict can spin out of anyone's control remains high.
The doomsday clock has been ticking for exactly 75 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On thursday, the clock was set at 100 seconds until midnight – the same time it has been since 2020. The clock isn’t designed to definitively measure existential threats, but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change, according to the bulletin of atomic scientists, which created the clock in 1947. “one hundred seconds to midnight reflects the board’s judgment that we are stuck in a perilous moment – one that brings neither stability nor security.