Re:Today is Stanislav Petrov day
by remarkEon on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:59AM
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Is there a technical write up of the false positive? I've long known about Petrov and his intuition, but eventually the error was confirmed and I haven't been able to find much detail as to the "how". Presumably the satellite system that failed had a lab twin, and the failure was reproduced there?
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Re:Today is Stanislav Petrov day
by potato3732842 on Friday September 26, 2025 @05:54PM
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From wikipedia:
"It was subsequently determined that the false alarms were caused by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds and the satellites' Molniya orbits, an error later corrected by cross-referencing a geostationary satellite."