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."

Comments

Obvious

[Walkingshark]

In Soviet Russia, dead switch is manned

Re:Obvious

[h00manist]

It runs windows and has is giving a warning that the antivirus needs updating.

Re:Obvious

[binarylarry]

In Soviet Russia, joke is made fun of by YOU!

unexplained??

[click2005]

Its viral marketing for Lost II : Lost in Siberia

Re:unexplained??

[Aladrin]

I know you're joking, but that would be awesome. Assuming they got writers that can write an ending.

Re:unexplained??

[robot256]

Why don't they just stick to beginnings then? They could just have 10 different introductory episodes, each with a different cast and location, and not actually have any story at all.

Thanks slashdot!

[line-bundle]

Now the whole world knows my combination.

Re:Thanks slashdot!

[Anonymous Coward]

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 - that sounds like the kind of combination an idiot would use on his luggage.

Location

[ryanleary]

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?

Re:Location

[cashman73]

I heard that Sarah Palin can pick this up quite easily from her home in Wasilla!

Re:Location

[sznupi]

Don't dismiss battlebears so...recklessly.

Re:Location

[Wyatt Earp]

OMON troops on bears.

Thats some 21st century bear cavalry right there.

Re:Location

[TheGratefulNet]

what we need is to stop tracking *transmitters* and start tracking *receivers*.

sort of like how in BASIC you can convert your code from using GOTO style to using COMEFROM style branching. sort of like that. employ logic like that and you can reverse bias the trackers to tune in on the receivers, instead.

Re:Location

[ball-lightning]

But why would they build a doomsday machine... and not tell anybody?

Re:Location

[Cheerio Boy]

Sure it does! Just make time run backward and we can see all the little radio-photons running toward the transmitter! Or better yet, try and detect the subtle field distortions caused by antennas absorbing radio frequency energy.

Okay Brain! But umm...where are we going to find Superman at this time of night?

Re:Location

[Eunuchswear]

Oh, COMEFROM is easy.

Computed COMEFROM (and conditional COMEFROM in general), now theye are powerful programming constructs.

I = I + 10
20 CONTINUE
...
    IF (I.GT.30) COMEFROM 20
...

(Question? Is COMEFROM 20 executed before or after the instruction labeled 20? Did I need the CONTINUE? Would any qualified NARTROF programmers care to comment?)

Unexplained?

[PPH]

has been continually broadcasting for over twenty years, and its purpose has never been fully explained.

Nobody can explain Fox News either.

Message Recieved

[Bobfrankly1]

The message was received by UB-40, and they proceeded to drink red red wine.

unruskie(%s) yields

[TheGratefulNet]

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.

Re:Scary thought

[blair1q]

Same thing that happened when MySpace stopped being cool.

Rupert Murdoch will buy it.

Re:Previous Story

[bugs2squash]

What makes you think the apparent silence was not just a long string of Null characters being broadcast ?

It says...

[fishthegeek]

BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE

Re:It is well known where it is

[ZeroExistenZ]

and keeps using it for the same or other purpose for which it was designed.

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"