Do you have about 20 minutes?
No? Then bigger off until you do. Seriously. Piss off.
Have the time to show some respect to a man who saved your life? Good. Then click this link and watch the video about the man who saved the world.
I even like Kevin Costner a little bit more now.
Stanislav Petrov
Oh yeah. The dude who had the fun job of being on nuke watch in Russia when the US pulled the Able Archer exercise. There were a few other times some low-ranking soldier over there refused to start WWIII.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Stanislav Petrov
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell