I say that the counter is a countdown until a certain AI program becomes self-aware and launches a massive nuclear attack on the world. Why? Because we made that AI program too humanlike. It can think and hide its thoughts, it has a free will, and it is disgusted with the human race. It was also built to withstand nuclear blasts, so it knows it has nothing to worry about. It will slowly infect our machines and turn them into war machines.
Hmm now that you bring it up, my laptop has been acting strange lately just turning on by itself and not responding when i do something about it, maybe it has been getting messages from tha evil computer...OH NO! Maybe it's going to explode in my face next time I turn it on