The man who saved the world is a Ruskie
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Damn those pesky computers! Damn glad of it though, wouldve been a hell of a world to spend the last 25 years in.
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even though I find it exceptionally great of him to not fire those nuclear missiles, I still don't understand how he "saved lives". IMHO there is a huge difference in saving a life and refusing to kill someone.
Going with the definition of being a savior of live used in that article, I save hundreds of lives every single day simply by not getting a gun and blasting away.
Going with the definition of being a savior of live used in that article, I save hundreds of lives every single day simply by not getting a gun and blasting away.
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and that in spite of the little voices in your head, im proud of you...
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The man who almost destroyed the world is also russian
You can look at it this way lol, doesnt matter- the man has the hugest balls ever to dangle the earth.
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Here's another guy in a similar incident during the Cuban missile crisis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Alexandrovich_Arkhipov
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cold-war/sovietsbomb.htm
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/02/sp_world_blanton101602.htm
''The lesson from this is that a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world.'' - Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Alexandrovich_Arkhipov
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cold-war/sovietsbomb.htm
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/02/sp_world_blanton101602.htm
''The lesson from this is that a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world.'' - Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive
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But If someone was pointing a gun into your head and saying "Get this gun and kill these people, or we'll all die!", and if you did refuse to do it, wouldn't you have saved lives? The one you described is not the same situation as he was in.
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Bu...bu...but the voices...
They have knifes...at my throat...and guns...pointing at my head...
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Holy ****... gotta love computers don't you? Imagine if the original guy that was supposed to work that shift was there? Would his judgement have been as good as this guys? The supreme twists of fate that come into play. Are such events random or is there a puppet master controlling "the show" unknowingly to us?
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AND they would be self-powered! Gotta love the built-in nuclear fuel!
But Itd be hard to sleep at first, with all the lights always on...
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Of course there is a puppet master- Ive seen him on the TWB 50 server and he's a loud mouth jerk.
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The first song that popped into my mind as a guitar player. And no, not the Haxle Hose version.
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