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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand How many stupid human mistakes are we away from doomsday? I hope there's no

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand How many stupid human mistakes are we away from doomsday? I hope there's no date/time glitches or buffer overflows.

Trex_Egg 5y ago
interesting one
ravenstine 5y ago
At least there might be enough `cannot read property 'undefined' of undefined` and such to hold us over for a while until humanity solves this issue.
labster 5y ago
At least the world ending in 2038 helps me set deadlines for my personal goals.
teeray 5y ago
Command & Control[0] details the stupid mistakes very well. There were many, many glitches. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788/ref=nodl_ https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Ill...
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KennyBlanken 5y ago
Mistakes, bureaucracy, crumbling infrastructure...Russia has been falling apart for decades. They somewhat routinely has nuclear plant accidents to this day which we only find out about when monitoring stations pick up huge upticks in background radiation. The chances of enough infrastructure problems, incompetence, and don't-give-a-fuck-itis-its-vodka-time to trigger this system are very much non-zero. Boris the drunk farmer accidentally cuts a comm line nobody remembers, but is still used by the doomsday machine. The same day, someone new and untrained is working the switchboard at a defense HQ and thinks "some asshole with a flute" is crank calling them when it's actually the doomsday machine playing the "hey, I've been triggered, is anyone alive?" recognition tones that they're supposed to punch in a response to. Some military system was recently decommissioned but turns out the doomsday machine uses its status as one of the later stages of its decision-making. So then we end up with every population center in the continental US turned to glass?
- PawBer 5y ago
  I think the chance of US doing the same thing is pretty similar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand How many stupid human mistakes are we away from doomsday? I hope there's no date/time glitches or buffer overflows.

Trex_Egg 5y ago

interesting one

ravenstine 5y ago

At least there might be enough `cannot read property 'undefined' of undefined` and such to hold us over for a while until humanity solves this issue.

labster 5y ago

At least the world ending in 2038 helps me set deadlines for my personal goals.

teeray 5y ago

Command & Control[0] details the stupid mistakes very well. There were many, many glitches. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788/ref=nodl_ https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Ill...

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KennyBlanken 5y ago

Mistakes, bureaucracy, crumbling infrastructure...Russia has been falling apart for decades. They somewhat routinely has nuclear plant accidents to this day which we only find out about when monitoring stations pick up huge upticks in background radiation. The chances of enough infrastructure problems, incompetence, and don't-give-a-fuck-itis-its-vodka-time to trigger this system are very much non-zero. Boris the drunk farmer accidentally cuts a comm line nobody remembers, but is still used by the doomsday machine. The same day, someone new and untrained is working the switchboard at a defense HQ and thinks "some asshole with a flute" is crank calling them when it's actually the doomsday machine playing the "hey, I've been triggered, is anyone alive?" recognition tones that they're supposed to punch in a response to. Some military system was recently decommissioned but turns out the doomsday machine uses its status as one of the later stages of its decision-making. So then we end up with every population center in the continental US turned to glass?

PawBer 5y ago
I think the chance of US doing the same thing is pretty similar.