Oh my, the comments about the video with the woman walking for ten hours sure have been fascinating. Since I’m sometimes very introverted, I can understand the desire to be left alone. But since I can also be very extroverted, I understand the desire to reach out. There are often days where I’ll great everyone I walk by, for hours, with a hearty hello or a compliment, and there are other days when I won’t say a word to anyone….
On Sept 26, 1983 Stanislav Petrov saved the world. The Soviet computer systems signaled that a full scale missile attack had been launched from the United States to Russia. According to the computers, a first strike of several hundred missiles was on it’s way to Russia. With literally seconds to decide, Petrov trusted his gut, which told him this was a false alarm, and did not order the counter-strike. If this man had followed standard procedure, twelve thousand Russian nuclear…