Apparently, he had pressed the wrong buttons -- like pressing the 'send' button too soon on your screen! Hint!
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Fake Missile Threat to Hawaii
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Apparently, he had pressed the wrong buttons -- like pressing the 'send' button too soon on your screen! Hint!
Heads should roll—and not necessarily the guy who pushed the button.
How the flying fak does someone make such a mistake?
Not exactly the 'my ass accidentally pressed against the button' type mistake that you do with your mobile phones. (I had a Norwegian partner in Dubai do that like 9 times within an hour once!)
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Hawaii residents said 'I love yous' and 'goodbyes' thinking they had just minutes to live after bogus missile warning
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hawaii-missile-threat-warning-2018-11848793
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hawaii-missile-threat-warning-2018-11848793
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I wonder if Trump will take credit for this too? Or at least acknowledge it and show some empathy -- he has some skin on the ground after all with Trump International Hotel there.
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Silly me.
Donald Trump Stayed On The Golf Course As Hawaii Panicked
He didn’t even tweet about the false missile alarm as soon as he put away his golf clubs.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...201e4b04f3c55a32242?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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I have a sister-in-law, niece, and a dozens of friends in Hawaii, and nearly all on Oahu which would be the targeted. Heard from a lot of them. The reactions ranged from panic, to resignation, to total disbelief (certainty that it was a false alarm).
Someone didn’t follow procedures laid out in checklists and there will be consequences. They reevaluate their procedures, training and process checklists and make revisions. One person shouldn’t be able to make a mistake like this.
Seems a lot of the Pacific side of things have been pretty sloppy lately. The ships and now this. Don't procedures and systems get stress tested? This is like an own goal/unforced errors ie no duress. What happens if the real thing happens?
The stress level it created may have caused a few heart attacks.
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You must be referring to the two Navy ship collisions, which was ultimately due to several years of cutting corners on training due to funding reductions combined with no decrease in mission requirements. However, this one was the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (a state agency) that screwed it up. I'd guess someone will sue. If anyone had a heart attack that can be proven to be related, they could probably sue and get some money. Won't do anything for anyone that died, but might help the family out.
I can't remember this ever happening even in the middle of the Cold War right?
My brother and sister in law live on Oahu, he is an E-5 in the Army. We got text messages from them both passing on their love. Surprisingly they didn't really panic.
My brother in law said he was hungry and made eggs and sausage as they waited for the inevitable. He told me "if I'm going out I'm not going out hungry."
My brother in law said he was hungry and made eggs and sausage as they waited for the inevitable. He told me "if I'm going out I'm not going out hungry."
There were lots of mistakes and accidents involving nuclear weapons and false alarms about nuclear attacks due to human error and technical glitches during the Cold War, and after. Probably hundreds of them. I have a couple in mind and I Googled and Wikipedia has them listed and some others - and that isn't an all inclusive list by any means.
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My hats off to President Trump for not over reacting
He is a man that knows how to react under pressure instead of doing something silly
He knows what the real problems are and there not about stupid social issues
He is a man that knows how to react under pressure instead of doing something sillyHe knows what the real problems are and there not about stupid social issues
That type of mistake should not get made but it is a reminder of where we currently find ourselves...also kind of pisses me off that from Clinton to Bush to Obama we have constantly kicked the can down the road on North Korea and now we have zero options...We just have to live with a fat prick with a had haircut acting up whenever he needs something. And we actually have to take him seriously now.
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Most I’ve heard from figured out quickly that it was almost certainly a false alarm. The sirens didn’t go off and they would for a real incoming attack. My old golf group that plays every Saturday morning didn’t even stop playing. They’re all military or retired military. However, based on my Facebook feed several were shook up by the experience.
Yeah they were concerned but not panicking. From housing there isn't much you'll be able to do so they just figured whatever happens happens.
My friend was at a swap meet and said a lot of the vendors left their shops unattended to rush home to families. They didn't know for almost 30 minutes. I bet a lot of people don't know, or don't remember that a siren would go off for something like that.
The Aloha Stadium Swap Meet has been around for almost 40 years. Been there a few times, but anyway, I’m sure there were quite a few people that reacted that way. I hope no one had a heart attack or died in an accident rushing home.
This isn't the one on Maui at the high school. I love the swap meets there. I hadn't thought about accidents, that would be horrible.
It’s Hawaii - the state is very inefficient. Could have been a dozen screwups between sending the false alarm and figuring out they sent out a false alarm and finally determining the right person to contact to fix it.
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Now that enough time has passed, I’ll fly another possibility out there for the conspiracy theorists among us - someone hacked Hawaii’s alert system.
That Japan had a similar occurrence today doesn't hurt your conspiracy theory.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...c26844b74fb_story.html?utm_term=.1a2d156ae463
That was my first thought, but didn't want to be considered a conspiracy nut. That's what I assumed happen before we heard the story.
If you're inclined toward the conspiracy theory, what's the motivation for whoever did the hacking? Who is the likely culprit?
Proxies of the Russians? To show that the country is in disarray? You have political discourse in DC -- just further proof you cant trust the system?
North Korea has the most direct benefit from panic begat by a report of a North Korean nuclear missile attack. Plus they have a documented history of hacks against targets that have upset them . . . and the timing is suspect with Tillerson opening the sanctions against North Korea conference today . . . without the Chinese and Russians being invited.
I thought I saw that the false alarm was due to a really poor software interface producing the not surprising human error?
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/01/hawaii-missile-warning-set-off-by-bad-design.html
can we play the thought experiment with other events too? Suppose that the pyramids weren't built by humans. Who built them and why? Hmmm!!!
Aliens - for grain silos?http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/01/hawaii-missile-warning-set-off-by-bad-design.html
can we play the thought experiment with other events too? Suppose that the pyramids weren't built by humans. Who built them and why? Hmmm!!!
What is that leads so many to move towards outlandish fantasies as history? Slightly off topic...the long legacy of fake histories tied into extremist groups is interesting. Here is a lefty take on the backwaters of right wing fake histories. https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/guide-modern-far-right
Turns out that alien intervention is very much alive as an explanation for why stuff happened in those backwaters.
In the fractured and constantly cross-fertilizing galaxy of extremist conspiracy culture, the white Moundbuilders — now known on the far right as “the Solutreans” — share a stage with other characters from an ancient and racially glorious but “suppressed” past: ancient Nordic-looking astronauts, biblical Aryan giants, Nazi scientists under the South Pole, and the occasional inter-dimensional alien in league with the Jews.
Maybe it is the ancient Nordic astronauts Trump's base is hoping will immigrate here? Ever hear of the "Solutreans"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean#Solutrean_hypothesis_in_North_American_archaeologyI was also unaware that the fake history of moundbuilders was used as justification for genocide against Native Americans by Andrew Jackson.
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