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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
So the main article comes from a discussion board on a conspira-blog-forum. And the description of the station in question is from Wikipedia, followed by a YouTube video in the third link. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not questioning the journalistic capabilities of the submitters, but holy-jumping-jeebus can we get an article with some legitimate [CITATION NEEDED] please. Perhaps this one was a tongue-in-cheek submission facetiously posted for the TFH crowd.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
I'm hoping like hell this is an attempt at a joke because if it isn't...
If the ionosphere can change state from seismic events, why couldn't seismic events be changed through manipulation of the ionosphere?
If the direction of the sun relative to earth can change the amount of light in my bedroom, why couldn't the direction of the sun relative to earth be changed through the action of my light-switch?
I could possibly tolerate the idea that HAARP could effect the weather, although the system has so many variables that I doubt any controlled effect could be created, but earthquakes? really?
Russian media says the station is switching to soft rock.
I dialed into 4625 KHz and I can hear the buzz, Guess it was just a maintenance down-period.
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..?
This signal may well have been a check signal of some kind for various defense services - something like a dead man's grip but now it has been obsoleted. (At least we can hope that it has been)
As long as there is a carrier there is no real problem. Of course there has had to be other channels too, so this was probably a last resort when/if all other means of communication did break down.
All related to the M.A.D. doctrine. We can all hope that this is a sign that Russia no longer needs this transmitter because the warheads that were involved are no longer active or are rearranged to a setup where this is no longer necessary or useful.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Burma-Shave
Demented But Determined.
There's still a freaky buzz on 4644kHz. And there's something that sounds like a movie ray gun on 4666.
FOUR SIX SIX SIX
Plenty of freaky shortwave left...
If it was M.A.D. and it wasn't no longer needed, we would probably already know. So, sleep easy tonight.
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.
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
For one thing, you'll notice that the conspiracy nuts are, well, always wrong. They have an abysmal track record throughout history and in modern times. Well, with a trend like that, it is pretty safe to say that they'll continue to be wrong. Same sort of thing with any crackpot thing that has been wrong time and time again. I mean just because ESP has failed every test doesn't prove beyond any and all doubt that it doesn't exist in some form... But it gives really strong evidence of that fact, and thus makes it pretty safe to say that indeed it's BS.
The other thing is that the people who are in to conspiracies seem to have extremely poor logic skills. They ignore obvious evidence, jump at tenuous connections, straight out make shit up, and place more faith in that which can't be proven than that which can. As such, the conclusions they draw are very likely wrong. When you use a bad logical process, your conclusion usually isn't right. That's just how things go. The scientific method, logical principles, and so on aren't random. It is the stuff that works reliably for separating truth from fiction. So when you fail to use it, well your results are probably incorrect.
So yes, just because you are a paranoid, psychotic nut job who thinks there's a conspiracy probably DOES mean there isn't a conspiracy. If you bet against them, you'd make plenty of money.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Chances are, it's a power failure. The area reportedly had a significant storm yesterday. It's possible that the power failed and that they didn't have enough fuel or battery capacity or whatever to keep it running during an extended outage. That would also neatly explain why it reportedly came back and has reportedly died again.
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... not to mention trolls. Those guys are everywhere.