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Nena is an optimist. It could take way less than 99 red balloons.
It was subsequently determined that the false alarm had been created by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds above North Dakota and the Molniya orbits of the satellites, an error later corrected by cross-referencing a geostationary satellite.
From Stanislav Petrov's wikipedia page.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) dir. Stanley Kubrick
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HAPPY STANISLAV PETROV DAY
forty years ago today, this ONE GUY identified a false alarm of an American nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, singlehandedly averting nuclear war :D
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39 years ago today, the world didn’t end
It could have. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer, was monitoring his country’s early-warning missile detection system, when it showed intercontinental ballistic missiles incoming from the United States: first just one, then four more.
For the past several decades, both superpowers--the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--had lived in fear of just such an attack. Almost certainly nuclear in nature, the incoming missiles were the starting gun to World War Three.
The scope of the destruction would be unparalleled. A single nuclear exchange--strike and counterstrike--between the two powers would kill anywhere from 136 million to 288 million people. Another two billion would likely die in the following years, as nuclear winter led to mass starvation.
But Stanislav Petrov realized something was wrong. He--like his American counterparts--had been trained to expect that the first strike, when it came, would be catastrophic, involving hundreds of missiles. That was why a retaliatory strike was supposed to be launched immediately, before the aggressor’s missiles even made impact--because once they had, the victim might no longer be capable of striking back. The doctrine of mutually assured destruction, it was called.
Five missiles didn’t make sense. So, instead of reporting to his superiors--who would begin the process of launching the retaliatory strike--Stanislav Petrov continued to monitor his station. No more missiles appeared, and the original four disappeared, never showing up on the land-based radar system.
It had been a false alarm--an unusual reflection of the sun off high-altitude clouds, detected by the early-warning system’s satellites, and erroneously interpreted by its computers. The Americans had never launched a single missile--but if the Soviet Union had launched a counterstrike, then they would have, each side “retaliating” until there was no one left alive to figure out what had really happened.
The world didn’t end that day, because Stanislav Petrov--when he saw something terrifying on his computer screen--stopped and thought about it. He considered other explanations, and he looked for additional information that would support one explanation or another.
And he saved the world.
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day!
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i can't believe yesterday petrov day came and went without me realizing it. happy belated petrov day everyone! if you don't know what that is or who stanislav petrov was, watch this:
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Happy stanislav petrov day.
Remember that he saved the world by thinking critically about something scary on his computer screen. You can too.
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day.
We cannot individually save the world;
But sometimes we *can*.
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Happy Stanislav Petrov day. Our world is fragile. Be thankful to those who keep rolling civilization's sixes. Hopefully, it lasts forever.
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now say it all with me
HAPPY STANISLAV PETROV DAY
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Hidden Figures: Final Outcome
1. Savetlana Savitskaya
2. Claudia Colvin
3. Mary Seacole
4. Stanislav Petrov
5. Alice Coachman
6. Lincoln Beachey
FINAL REFLECTION ON FMP
Overall, I feel very happy with my final outcome for my idea of 'Hidden Figures'. I feel that through my collages I have successfully achieved my goals of highlighting stories of various different types of people from history who did amazing things but are not recognised for it in the modern day, as well as talking about societal issues that made these people hidden, through my work. Covering various aspects of their lives was important for me, as all of the people that I chose had different societal problems that altered their lives and made their work even harder, which should be recognised.
I hope that through my work, the audience will want to educate themselves on people such as these and celebrate them for their lives and have had an emotional response to the reasons why they were hidden from history.
If I were to recreate this project again, I would use more physical collage aspects throughout my work, as due to the circumstances, I couldn't show my work physically, which meant I focused more on creating collages digitally rather than physically.
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Happy Petrov Day!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
On 26 September 1983, the nuclear early warning system of the Soviet Union reported the launch of multiple USAF Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases in the United States. These missile attack warnings were correctly identified as a false alarm by Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack based on erroneous data on the United States and its NATO allies, which would have probably resulted in immediate escalation of the cold-war stalemate to a full-scale nuclear war. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had malfunctioned.
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