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Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline
leathered writes "Tinfoil hatters around the world are abuzz that UVB-76, the Russian shortwave radio station that has been broadcasting its monotonous tone almost uninterrupted since 1982, has suddenly gone offline. Of course no one knows what the significance of this is, but best brush up on your drills just in case."
It's a conspiracy! Damn them! This means something, but WHAT COULD IT MEAN?
"Maintenance"
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Russian media says the station is switching to soft rock.
Heard about this on 4chan's science board
Current events research. Your doing it wrong.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
Your doing it wrong.
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You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
maybe the guy pushing the button every 1-1.3 seconds figured out he didn't need to..?
Burma-Shave
Demented But Determined.
No, no... that's spelled correctly in the native language of 4chan.
Yes, just like Project ELF for extremely low frequency communication with US submarines, tech moves on. :)
Great, useful, in place for years and then superseded.
Or the lack of a signal and a change to a numbers station means KGB and FSB sleepers are digging out their weapons caches ready for a Red Dawn
Somewhere in the depths of Bolling Air Force Base a DIA nerd is searching scanned East Bloc documents for any hint to signal changes.
Did the CIA buy the right documents back at the end of the cold war and will the DIA worker find them in time.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Maybe someone just opened the electric bill...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
>but holy-jumping-jeebus can we get an article with some legitimate [CITATION NEEDED] please.
In the 1980s the US was eager to test the resolve of the Soviet's glasnost policy of open relations with the West. A drunken Caspar Weinberger, the current Secretary of Defense, decided to ask the Soviets to work closely with experimental music artist Brian Eno after reading an article about him in the Post. Brian was supplied with the best drugs Iran/Contra could supply. After months of negotiations and late night stoner brain-storming sessions, Brian finally got the approval for his epic 10,000 year song which is to be broadcast by the Russians. The break from today was simply the start of the chorus.
Shortly after the Soviets got revenge by allowing Yakov Smirfnoff passage into the US and then "losing" his paperwork for return.
WWV? Did I miss WWIII and WWIV?
Guess that's what happens when you spend too much time on Slashdot.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Its been slashdotted.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
I real conspiracy theorist would say that the reason the US didn't invade right then was because they were exposed by slashdot and others and therefore aborted the invasion. In fact all those theories that didn't actually come true was all because of the theorists, so be happy that they exist.
... not to mention trolls. Those guys are everywhere.