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You'd assume a potential strike by an incoming missile is important enough to interrupt said meeting?

JumpCrisscross 9y ago
If NORAD said “incoming missile strike,” sure. That isn’t what happened. The civilian notification system sent out a false positive. Saying “false alarm” would require, at that point, asking the military for affirmative confirmation nothing is wrong. That is a lower priority than responding to an active threat.
- anigbrowl 9y ago
  This is irrational. If you know a false alarm has occurred then you are endangering people by allowing them to believe the existence of an active threat. I feel like I'm stuck in a car with someone driving off a cliff because the GPS said so even though the edge of the cliff is perfectly visible though the windscreen.
  - JumpCrisscross 9y ago
    You’re bickering over a thirteen minute delay between a mistake and a correction.
    - anigbrowl 9y ago
      A mistake that could easily have caused mass public panic and which there was no contingency in place for. That's not OK.
      - JumpCrisscross 9y ago
        > could easily have caused mass public panic Could. It didn’t. This was a mistake. You’re being irrational.
        anigbrowl 9y ago
        No I'm not. Imagine the same mistake happening in New York at 9 in the morning on a workday (remind you of anything?), or during some large public event where there was the potential for a stampede - hardly uncommon. Just because you get away with something without serious consequences once doesn't mean it's not problematic.
- cryptoz 9y ago
  > That is a lower priority than responding to an active threat. No, that is the active threat and anyone in power would know it. A panicked civilian population can do about as much damage as a real bomb and the military knows it. Such a long delay in the all-clear message is incompetent and dangerous.
  - JumpCrisscross 9y ago
    > A panicked civilian population can do about as much damage as a real bomb Honolulu was vaporised? Keep your perspective. Responding was a priority. The error was corrected in 13 minutes. It’s just not as high of a priority as an incoming ballistic projectile.

If NORAD said “incoming missile strike,” sure. That isn’t what happened. The civilian notification system sent out a false positive. Saying “false alarm” would require, at that point, asking the military for affirmative confirmation nothing is wrong. That is a lower priority than responding to an active threat.

anigbrowl 9y ago
This is irrational. If you know a false alarm has occurred then you are endangering people by allowing them to believe the existence of an active threat. I feel like I'm stuck in a car with someone driving off a cliff because the GPS said so even though the edge of the cliff is perfectly visible though the windscreen.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago
  You’re bickering over a thirteen minute delay between a mistake and a correction.
  - anigbrowl 9y ago
    A mistake that could easily have caused mass public panic and which there was no contingency in place for. That's not OK.
    - JumpCrisscross 9y ago
      > could easily have caused mass public panic Could. It didn’t. This was a mistake. You’re being irrational.
      - anigbrowl 9y ago
        No I'm not. Imagine the same mistake happening in New York at 9 in the morning on a workday (remind you of anything?), or during some large public event where there was the potential for a stampede - hardly uncommon. Just because you get away with something without serious consequences once doesn't mean it's not problematic.
cryptoz 9y ago
> That is a lower priority than responding to an active threat. No, that is the active threat and anyone in power would know it. A panicked civilian population can do about as much damage as a real bomb and the military knows it. Such a long delay in the all-clear message is incompetent and dangerous.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago
  > A panicked civilian population can do about as much damage as a real bomb Honolulu was vaporised? Keep your perspective. Responding was a priority. The error was corrected in 13 minutes. It’s just not as high of a priority as an incoming ballistic projectile.