[pavement]

Holy shit. That is not even a "pull down menu" as previously reported.

Good to know. This means that in Hawaii, you should only think about taking action if the magic FALSE ALARM notice never appears.

If the FALSE ALARM notice doesn't appear within an hour, it might just be that the false alarm guy is on lunch break. If it doesn't appear in 8 hours, it might mean that a shift change occurred without proper hand-off. If it fails to appear in 24 hours, a nuclear attack might actually be imminent, and you should check other sources, to determine if the alarm was, in fact, real.

This protocol ensures that archaeologists will receive a valid record, omitting the false alarm notice in the rocks on the other side. Eventual consistency ensures that before the archaeological record is written, a false alarm notice will appear, if the alarm was indeed false. In all other cases, the alarm is effectively revealed to history to be a true alert, at some point in the future, as yet to be determined.

[delecti]

I suspect you're joking, but an actual ICBM attack would have likely struck before the false alarm message was issued.

There was a 38 minute delay before the false alarm message: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...

Meanwhile an ICBM would likely impact less than 35 minutes after launch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_mis...