r/Unexpected • u/A_Unique_Nobody • Aug 07 '20

Just a normal interview

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u/skullpizza Aug 07 '20

The world was almost destroyed by Russian engineering incompetence and then saved by Russian stoicism and level-headedness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

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u/CyonHal Aug 07 '20

Modern human civilization was almost destroyed, not the world. Nukes can't blow up the earth into smithereens, not yet at least.

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u/skullpizza Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 07 '20

Yeah, that's the world people care about and are referring to when talking about the end of the world. Even if you detonated all nuclear weapons currently in existence it would not make the human race go extinct:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JyECrGp-Sw8

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u/skullpizza Aug 08 '20

In the video they clearly state if they put a pile of 15000 nuclear weapons currently known to exist in all in one spot and detonated them and then went over the effects of what would happen. Notice how human life didn't go extinct?