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So according to the wiki article: -$30,000 from the Dresden Prize -$1,000 from SF's World Citizen Award (does that even cover airfare from Russia?!) Preventi
by dajohnson89 13y ago
So according to the wiki article:
-$30,000 from the Dresden Prize
-$1,000 from SF's World Citizen Award (does that even cover airfare from Russia?!)
Preventing nuclear disaster, it seems, is an undervalued skill. Mr. Petrov needs to fire his publicist.
- jonnathanson 13y agoAn interesting part of the article is that he was actually demoted after averting nuclear disaster. This is because admitting that there was a fault in the nuclear defense system would be tantamount to admitting that top Soviet military and scientific minds were capable of error. Rather than embarrass the regime, the military quietly moved Petrov out of the spotlight.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoThis bug in human nature makes me half wish they were destroyed, but the other half of me wants to take eat, and be entertained.