Why are so many modern rational people obsessed with doomsday prophecies?

为什么有那么多现代理性人痴迷于世界末日的预言？

This job's going to take me till doomsday.

这项工作要花去我一生一世的心血。

My father spent years building his Doomsday Machine.

我的父亲花费了数年的时间来建造他的末日机器。

Exact date aside, the doomsday ball was now rolling.

除了准确的日期以外，这个末日传言仍在继续。

It's the retail version of the doomsday machine.

这是零售界版本的死光炮塔。

If doomsday came true, I wished I were with you.

如果有末日，我希望那天我可以和你在一起。