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UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message
Doug52392 writes "Following days of increased activity, the Russian numbers station UVB-76 has sent out a new voice transmission. The transmission, sent out on August 23, 2010 at 9:35AM PST, recited the following in Russian: 'UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4' The station, believed to be a part of the former Soviet Union's dead man's switch system, has been continually broadcasting for over twenty years, and its purpose has never been fully explained."
In Soviet Russia, dead switch is manned
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
Its viral marketing for Lost II : Lost in Siberia
I am a free slashdotter. I will not be modded, blogged, DRM'd, patented, podcasted or RFID'd. My life is my own.
Now the whole world knows my combination.
Shouldn't it be possible to triangulate the position based on signal strength from multiple points, and just locate the tower, break in and see what the hardware attached to the transmitter does?
has been continually broadcasting for over twenty years, and its purpose has never been fully explained.
Nobody can explain Fox News either.
Have gnu, will travel.
It says... "Drink more Ovaltine."
The message was received by UB-40, and they proceeded to drink red red wine.
unruskie("UVB-76, UVB-76 -- 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 -- 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4'") ends up with this cryptic message:
lp0 on fire. call nikolai, anna or ivan; but ivan's drunk, call michail instead
rather a specific message but that's what the unruskie() filter says.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Same thing that happened when MySpace stopped being cool.
Rupert Murdoch will buy it.
One byte per message.
What makes you think the apparent silence was not just a long string of Null characters being broadcast ?
Nullius in verba
Right, because *nothing* in the nuclear arsenal related to launch control has been updated in 50 years- there's a stack of punch cards with an itchy trigger finger out there in the wilds of Siberia, just waiting to strike.
How much does a shortwave transmitter cost?? I want to rickroll this frequency!
Get Sarah Palin in there! She'll just hop from her porch, and rear her ugly head into the airspace!
That'd be a funny Mr. Magoo-style spy film, Sarah Palin in a Salt-like action flick...
What's the Godwin equivalent of Sarah Palin threadjack?
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE
load "$",8,1
Actually, it's white people trying to rap.
Russia owns it, Russia operates it, and Russia has a lot of men with guns who will kill you if you get too inquisitive about it.
Could be worse. They could have men with goats guarding the thing.
Russia owns it, Russia operates it, and Russia has a lot of men with guns who will kill you if you get too inquisitive about it.
May be they are expecting inquisition.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
This is the digital age, surely there is no reason to communicate in this manner anymore. My guess is that it's a Soviet Plot to distract the capitalist imperialist to spend billions of rubles to figure out what its significance is (I've never used that phrase "Soviet Plot" before in my life). You can imagine that the change in message is spurring Dick Cheney (or more likely Rush Limbaugh) to make a run at the White House just to figure it out.
Think about it, the amount of data being transmitted is trivial. We live in the internet age. This is at best a distraction made for those who visualize the modern era as a series of tubes.
Kind thoughts do not change the world
Seriously, it's just the Russian Powerball Lotto.
Darth --
Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre
Ssshhhh! Give him a plane ticket and a scanner and let him go. It's one less neanderthal that will be left on this planet.
Woah there. Salt. One time pad. It's like you grabbed some random crypto sounding words and slung them together.
We all know the combination to your luggage is 1-2-3-4-5.
Consider this: if you want to hide something, hide it in plain view.
But I can imagine this is also a great inside joke, imagine this:
Young eager cadet: "Sergei, what is this?"
"Our top of the line distraction and nuclear defence device!"
"How does it work?"
"We keep on broadcasting this pendula going over this magnetic field"
"Why?"
"Oh, you see... The CIA is listening since 1982 and can imagine it's a nuclear reaction device or anything they can come up with. We use it joke around since the signal can be picked up everywhere in Russia."
"How?"
"Do you see this microphone?"
"Yes..."
"Say, I met this girl Naimina and I want to share story and her number and zipcode with my comrades..."
reaches for microphone: "UVB-76, UVB-76 -- 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 -- 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4"
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Wow. That is really dumb of them. I don't feel so bad now (I sometimes have to think hard to remember how to spell the letter Q).
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
The phrase "100-calorie pack" popped in my head when I read your post. I'm going to hell for sure.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY