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- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34From the summary: How long will we keep getting lucky?
Answer: Until it no longer matters. - inactive, on 10/23/2007, -1/+22Read the first comment under the article
"Comment by Brian ~Ducky~ at 2:03am, 27 Sep 2006
His action was not acting. I for one think that we are all very lucky that these weren't real missiles. Just think if the situation had been turned around and he had been on the U.S. side. We shouldn't be thanking him, we should be thanking God that he was too much of an iddiot to follow orders and report his findings to a C.O.. This man is no hero, he is a slacker."
I don't know about you, but "Brian" really makes me mad. He is ungrateful to this man for saving the world from potential World War III and turns around calling him an "iddiot." What a looser. - JoJoWalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Maybe it's just me, but after reading the comments after the article, i long to be able to vote down comments on every web page i visit. In a weird way, perhaps digg is teaching people just how important voting really is...
- swanny89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15sadly as in we all seem hell bent on killing each other
- javierror, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18http://stanislavpetrovtribute.ytmnd.com/
Come on peeps. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20"The Man Who Literally Stole the Title and Description Word for Word From Slashdot"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Wow... i never would have been born if not for that guy.
- manfrin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I don't think we 'keep getting lucky'. The bubonic plague wiped out a staggering amount of the world's population, that was an 'end of the world' event for those living at that time, but some time later we had the rebirth and this led up to where we are now. We haven't been getting lucky, we have simply been following the course of certain events. Had the missiles flown that day, a hundred or two hundred years from now we'd have our own rebirth, and the people living there wouldn't have thought that WW3 was the end of the world, but rather the same as we see the black death: a blip in our history, and an event that led us up to where we (and they) are now.
- unitethenations, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12How much is the Earth worth?
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
>"Association of World Citizens gave Colonel Petrov its World Citizen Award along with a >trophy and US$1000 in recognition of the part he played in averting a catastrophe.[5]"
Thank you for saving the world. Here's $1000!
I didn't expect them to give him millions, but come on... a little more recognition, please. - malhussaini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I really liked the audio
- JoJoWalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Discretion is the better part of valor.
- nodnarb24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ghost missiles are basically glitches in the satellite/computer system. Essentially, the early warning system reported that missiles were launched even though none were.
- easy4lif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9man balls of steel. I would have called my sups and let them deal with it. I'd guess we'd all be living the Mad Max world right about now if it wasn't for him.
- Ndiggnation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I've seen this man's story before, and even now it's amazing to think about how many close calls we had back then that most of the world doesn't even know about. Many just as serious or more than the Cuban missle crisis.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You're face to face.. with the man who (literally) saved the world.
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The bubonic plague was FAR less dangerous than this possibility. I don't think you are capable of imagining how many nuclear missiles would have been launched, and are oblivious to the effect of nuclear fallout. So the USA got lucky in this case. Very lucky. Most of the people on digg would not be alive, the internet would never have been created because of the damage, there would be no large cities, there would be widespread fatal disease from nuclear radiation.
- 0v3rk1ll, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Your sheer ignorance on this matter shows how dumb you are. Go read more about this amazing person, or if you can't, grow a brain capable of thinking for you. That man deserves respect!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4^ they were already there.
- schwit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You could say the same thing about Kennedy not allowing the Generals to invade Cuba in '61. The Soviets had operational nukes there with the local commanders ready to use them on any invading force.
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"all he did was not press a button."
sometimes that's all it takes.... - ManOfTomorrow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow, looks like I pulled a Homer!
- cmdrwhitewolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thank God for yet another person who knew enough not to trust glitchy equipment, and moronically follow orders without thinking first!
Pity he got reprimanded, But that's what people who think for themselves seem to getting now-a-days.
Remember the old saying - To screw something up it takes a human, to REALLY screw things up, it takes a computer.
{The moral here is just because you can automate a task doesn't mean that's the way should be always be done, sometimes you *need* have to something with the intelligence to answer the question of whether doing said task is a good idea under varying scenarios.} - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Considering he got reprimanded...
In Soviet Russia, missile fires you! - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This was on Shoutwire months ago. Dont blame me for reading Shoutwire, its on the front-page of torrentspy.
- byp494, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried for posting a story already posted on digg three times
Try searching
http://digg.com/search?area=all&age=all&sort=new&search-buried=1&s=Stanislav+Petrov&submit=Search - Rounin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Russia's Nuclear Warriors
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/missileers/ - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Um, yeah. The button that would CAUSE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ***** WORLD upon being pressed.
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you know, I would do the same thing.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A similar thing happened during the Cuban Missile crisis in America. And I'm sure there have been other incidents that haven't been widely reported, if at all.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't say he doesn't deserve respect, but I am saying you don't.
- raides, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Was this post lifted directly from slashdot yesterday ?
- aks123, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3So, what are "ghost missles", and why did the U.S. launch them at Russia? To panic them into retaliating and potentially launching a nuke at us? I would've liked it if the article answered these questions.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Until the end of the world.
</stolen> - maledei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i wouldn't say "the man who saved the world"; "the man who chose not to end the world" seems more accurate.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yes.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/27957163/article.pl - knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6wow i had that ytmnd open for a whole 2 seconds. One of those seconds was the audio loading.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"Sadly there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing."
*Sadly?* - Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Well, duh... Except that's not how the summary is actually worded.
". . .the Soviet missile commander who saved the world from nuclear destruction in 1983. Sadly there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing."
It was a joke at the expense of the submitter's poor transition from one thought to the next. - jsmith39, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Cite sources please, the cuban missle crisis was about keeping the missles out of Cuba not removing them.
- DennisPwnsj00, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Oh wow. Thank GOD for the soviets and how they were SAVED THE WORLD! For goodness sakes, all he did was not press a button.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4I noticed too. Buried as a dupe :->
- Salmonized, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2ahem....that was "loser"...not "looser" or it could be "loozer"
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1world will be so polluted and depleted that it will not matter soon.
- thestorey, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2k thnx bai
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -22/+7Would it be safe to say the world is no longer able to be saved since July 16th, 1945?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2First of all, nuclear explosions aren't nearly as dangerous as people assume. So, I don't know if he literally saved the world.
- muckton, on 10/12/2007, -34/+1He may have saved the world, but WWIII seems to have broken out on the discussion thread...
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