RIP

[kladner]

Originally Posted by xilman

Stanislav Petrov

Hi did not consider himself a hero, but I do.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by xilman

Stanislav Petrov

That's weird. I was sure I posted about this guy a couple of years ago. Or maybe it was a different Soviet commander who decided not to launch WWIII?

[Dr Sardonicus]

Robert Hunter

[nomead]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

That's weird. I was sure I posted about this guy a couple of years ago. Or maybe it was a different Soviet commander who decided not to launch WWIII?

Sure enough, here's the original message and your reply in the same thread. 2017 indeed.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

César Pelli

Robert Morgenthau

Originally Posted by xilman

Nilolai Kardashev

Originally Posted by rudy235

Ferdinand Piëch

Note the difference between the above and the one below.

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Cokie Roberts, Washington based Journalist

It is nice to have at least a little something to indicate who they were, before clicking on a link that gives zero clue.

[rudy235]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Note the difference between the above and the one below.
It is nice to have at least a little something to indicate who they were, before clicking on a link that gives zero clue.

I thought that was the standard for these type of posts. We are free to either open or not the link.

[ewmayer]

As with any posted URL, I encourage posters to please provide some minimal context for RIP-thread entries - believe it or not, some readers are wary of blindly clicking hyperlinks without a clue as to the nature of the linked material. It only takes a few seconds to convert a raw URL into a reasonably informative headline-with-hyperlink-style one.

An exception is if the URL in effect provides the headline. Ironically, among Uncwilly's handful of exemplars, only his own Cokie Roberts one has such a URL.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Jacques Chirac

PARIS (AP) — Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at age 86.

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by nomead

Sure enough, here's the original message and your reply in the same thread. 2017 indeed.

Given the scale of consequences, even at the very low end of possible scenarios, Stanislav Petrov is certainly worth more than one mention.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/129966 Millions, to hundreds of millions, to a decade of crop failure and widespread famine.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Shuping Wang

A whistleblower who revealed the spread of HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood in central China during the 1990s and was subsequently targeted by authorities has died, aged 59, while hiking in the US.

Dr Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives when Chinese authorities began testing for the diseases at blood banks as a result of her campaigning. However, even after her recommendations were taken up, Wang faced intimidation as officials tried to cover up the public health crises.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

Jacques Chirac

This is sad news, but it may be a good sign, so we are still waiting for Iliescu. We bought the champagne already, long ago, and we are afraid it will become spoiled...