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Hmm! Well, I don't do nonmorphic, but I'll do odd. Definitely going
to work on this. Possum, huh.
anw I found onmetaquotes :(Four elderly men enter the store. They are all at least 70, balding, and at least one has a cane.)
Manager: “Hi, what can I get for you?”
Elderly Man #1: “Are those bagels hot, young lady?”
Manager: “They’re pretty hot. They’ve been out about ten minutes.”
Elderly Man #2: “But are they as hot as us?”
karentraviss 's journal. I'd considered doing it forbaxil too, but... Anyway, at the time I loved KT's books. Her clones. As time went on, though, I slowly changed my mind. I really, really don't like her books. Wess'har or Star Wars. I'm not sure why. Partly it's because I literally can't empathize with her characters, I can neither identify with them or admire them. And the constant "This culture is AWESOME and SO MUCH BETTER than any other" really got to me. I don't like wess'har society or Mandalorians. I stopped enjoying the books a year ago.scans_daily post here, then copy-paste it, since I've heard about cut problems.Stanislav Petrov, an Air Defence lieutenant colonel, was the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow on September 26, 1983.[4] Petrov's responsibilities included observing the satellite early warning network and notifying his superiors of any impending nuclear missile attack against the Soviet Union. If notification was received from the early-warning systems that inbound missiles had been detected, the Soviet Union's strategy was an immediate nuclear counter-attack against the United States (launch on warning), specified in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction.[1]
Shortly after midnight, the bunker's computers reported that an intercontinental ballistic missile was heading toward the Soviet Union from the US.[5] Petrov considered the detection a computer error, since a United States first-strike nuclear attack would hypothetically involve hundreds of simultaneous missile launches to disable any Soviet means for a counterattack. Furthermore, the satellite system's reliability had been questioned in the past.[6] Petrov dismissed the warning as a false alarm, though accounts of the event differ as to whether he notified his superiors[7] or not[5] after he concluded that the computer detections were false and that no missile had been launched. Later, the computers identified four additional missiles in the air, all directed towards the Soviet Union. Petrov again suspected that the computer system was malfunctioning, despite having no other source of information to confirm his suspicions. The Soviet Union's land radar was incapable of detecting missiles beyond the horizon, and waiting for it to positively identify the threat would limit the Soviet Union's response time to minutes.
Had Petrov reported incoming American missiles, his superiors might have launched an assault against the United States, precipitating a corresponding nuclear response from the United States. Petrov declared the system's indications a false alarm. Later, it was apparent that he was right: no missiles were approaching and the computer detection system was malfunctioning. It was subsequently determined that the false alarms had been created by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds and the satellites' Molniya orbits, an error later corrected with cross-reference to a geostationary satellite.[8]
Petrov later indicated the influences in this decision included: that he had been told a US strike would be all-out, so that five missiles seemed an illogical start[1]; that the launch detection system was new and, in his view, not yet wholly trustworthy[citation needed]; and that ground radars were still failing to pick up any corroborative evidence, even after minutes of delay.[citation needed]
YTMND page for him.I drew a dragon whom I've written about before, here and here. Then I scanned him. Good gods, that scanned huge. This is the "small" version. In the story his jaws can open to about two feet or so... Thinking about drawing more hair to connect his mane with his muttonchops. I think I did pretty well, altogether.
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