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:[Meghan is looking at her phone.]
 
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:Meghan: Hey, Wednesday was Stanislav Petrov day. We missed it.
{{Stanislav Petrov, a colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, is credited with almost literally saving the world from nuclear war when he ignored a false alarm that initially  like a US attack on the USSR. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov}}
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:Cueball: Oh, shoot! I got a calendar alerty for it, but I assumed it was a false alarm.

Revision as of 14:40, 28 September 2018

Stanislav Petrov Day
I was going to get you an alarm clock that occasionally goes off randomly in the middle of the night, but you can ignore it and go back to sleep and it's fine.
Title text: I was going to get you an alarm clock that occasionally goes off randomly in the middle of the night, but you can ignore it and go back to sleep and it's fine.

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Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; 7 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.

Transcript

[Meghan is looking at her phone.]
Meghan: Hey, Wednesday was Stanislav Petrov day. We missed it.
Cueball: Oh, shoot! I got a calendar alerty for it, but I assumed it was a false alarm.