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UVB-76 Explained
Useful Wheat writes "Recently slashdot covered the reappearance of UVB-76. The function of the mysterious transmitter has been revealed: UVB-76 is used to transfer orders to military personnel, along with the time at which they should be executed. 'Words for the radio messages and code tables are selected mainly from the scientific terms of chemistry (Brohman), Geology (ganomatit), philology (Izafat), geography (Bong), Zoology (kariama), history (Scythian), cooking (drying), sports (krolist) and others, as well as rare Russian words (glashatel).' The page continues to list all 23 transmissions that have been made from the station in the past, showing that UVB-76 may be more active than believed."
Two things. 1. ITS *WILLIAM* of Ockham. Ockham was his home. 2. Thats not what William's idea was. His idea was that the solution that has NO leaps is always correct. Both of your options require leaps of faith. You have no direct proof of a situation so you assume a likely story. We don't know its used for anything at all beyond transmitting a signal. So trying to answer that with no real evidence is directly going against William of Ockham's theory. In short, you used the wrong idea to present your argument.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."