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.

HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?

Trying to recall the purpose of the clock from memory, it’s supposed to be an estimate of how far away are we from thermonuclear annihilation. Specifically, how tense international politics are, how physically far apart the world’s militaries are from conflict, how long it would take for chain-of-command to actually launch nukes. Are we one bad phone call from launching? 00:00:00 would mean the rockets are armed and in the air, no turning back.

Total thermonuclear annihilation

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.

Nothing instantly. It’s more symbolic. It’s an indicator of how we are doing. Clock forward: worse, clock back: it got better.

Some say it’s the point of no return and we’re fucked from that moment on, regardless what we do or stop doing.

(It’s all explained in more detail here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock )

Someone would have to write a song about it.

Same thing that happened when the Mayan calendar reset.

Nothing. Nothing would happen.

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.