if its seven minutes until midnight, were all dead. they started this clcok during the cold war as a way of showing how close we are to wiping ourselves out. its serious shit, it usually sits at six o'clock, during the cuban missile crisis it was at ten minutes to midnight, get the picture? so if that article did indeed mean that were seven minutes to midnight its not a good thing. I'm sure what it meant tho is that they moved it foward seven minutes from where it was currently sitting, if so it's not good but no worries.