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A few minutes ago, phones across Hawaii received the above emergency alert about a "ballistic missile threat inbound," but according to state officials it isn't true. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii's [governor] David Ige and the state's Hawaii Emergency Management Agency all chimed in on Twitter to confirm the alert is false. It took 38 minutes before a second alert reached phones, confirming that the first one was a mistake.
Honolulu police confirmed in a post that "State Warning Point has issued a Missile Alert in ERROR!," while Buzzfeed reporter Amber Jamieson tweets that one EMA employee said it was a part of a drill. US Senator from Hawaii Brian Schatz said the "inexcusable" alert "was a false alarm based on a human error" while the National Weather Service called it a "test message."
The governor said on CNN that "It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button."
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/13/hawaii-missile-eas/
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 14 2018, @02:06PM (1 child)
It all depends on where the bomb goes off... there are lots of places it doesn't matter - too close, too far, but there's a pretty wide "grey zone" where the people in the bathtub will survive and live to a ripe old age, while people directly exposed will die - quickly, or even worse: slowly.
What I'd like to know is: whose agenda(s) is(are) being served by all the nukey scare revival? This isn't the only event, lots of press coverage lately for "how to survive a nuclear attack" etc. That stuff was old-hat/boring even back in the 1970s, but since the button-size contest started on Twitter it has made a big resurgence.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @01:16PM
It's trending, so anything with income based on ads will be focused on it. No tin hats needed, unless you want to buy my super shiny hat. It reflect more brain signals than any other and restricts blood flow to the brain in case you've injested or inhaled an agency chemical.