Yes it does exist. For those of you that have no idea what this is (image on left) its the doomsday clock. The clock itself does not tell time, but since 1947 the clock has been kept and maintained. The famed workers of the Manhattan project thought of creating this symbol to set a standard of alert and time until the end of the world or a large disaster. The end being the symbolic strike to midnight. Since the establishment of the clock at seven minutes to midnight its time has fluctuated quite a bit going from the safest the world has ever been in 1991, seventeen minutes to midnight, to an all time low of two minutes in 1953. The clock has been adjusted according to nuclear threats over time, but since 2007 has included climate changes and nanotechnological threats. Its most current reading is six minutes to midnight as of January 14th 2010. The clock turning back may be a sign that the world won't be ending in 2012. Having the world end as I finish college would be horrendous. My whole life would have been spent in school, learning for nothing. But there may be hope that I may live in a time where I don't have class everyday. Yet again in the next two years the clock may fluctuate like a sine curve until our eventual downfall. Only time can tell what's in store for the future.

Doomsday Clock Timeline
http://www.thebulletin.org/content/doomsday-clock/timeline

-MF