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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."
In Soviet Russia, signal transmits you!
Or something like that.
Entropy just isn't what it used to be.
Of course no one knows what the significance of this is, but best brush up on your drills just in case.
I know what it means: the guy who broadcast that frequency from his garage died. He was 41 when he started, it has been 28 years since he started, he died of congestive heart failure and liver disease at the age of 69, and his electricity was later shut off due to non-payment. Which just serves to prove my point: when something trivial happens, or ceases to happen, after 28 years, there is probably not a huge conspiracy involved. And Germans love David Hasselhoff.
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
crap, Desmond Hume must have left the building! We're fucked.
You can't handle the truth.
We know where it's transmitting from.