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RIP Stanislav Petrov....

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:01 pm
by Lianachan
....without whom, we may well not be here.

Re: RIP Stanislav Petrov....

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:55 pm
by Arneb
Oooff. Close shave. Thanks, colonel, for your steely nerve that day.

Re: RIP Stanislav Petrov....

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:16 pm
by Heid the Ba
Came to post the same thing. There are more and more stories coming out that make it scarier and scarier to have lived through those days.

Re: RIP Stanislav Petrov....

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:29 pm
by Enzo
Can you imagine if the reverse happens today in the Trump White House?

Re: RIP Stanislav Petrov....

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:46 pm
by tubeswell
Lianachan wrote:....without whom, we may well not be here.


A proverbial diceman by the sound of it "I realized that I had to make some kind of decision, and I was only 50/50"

Re: RIP Stanislav Petrov....

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:02 pm
by Halcyon Dayz, FCD
For those who are into that sort of thing there's a massive collaborative Alternate TimeLine which explores what might have happened if Petrov hadn't been there that day.

1983: Doomsday

I think it is to optimistic.