🚀 go-pugleaf

On 10 Feb 2018 21:37:38 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:

>On 2018-02-10, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 16:43:52 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>
>>> <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>>> In 1963, Western Union, under contract with the US Air Force, installed 
>>>> a nationwide nuclear weapon detonation detection system.  If there
>>>> was an attack, the airforce would be immediately notified.
>>>> 
>>>> The system worked by having special sensors that would only be
>>>> triggered by the intense light of a nuclear weapon.  Other light
>>>> (sunlight, lightning, etc) would not affect it.  Upon receipt of
>>>> the blast light, the sensor would send a off signal before the blast
>>>> shock wave (travels slower) and destroyed the sensor and wires.
>>>> Areas would have multiple sensors in case one was destroyed.
>>>> 
>>>> The sensors and warning system is described in the WUTR:
>>>> http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/17-1/p032.htm
>>>> 
>>>
>>> There is a story that there is one radio station in Russia (Moscow)  that
>>> broadcasts nothing but a continuous tone. Supposedly, if it ever stops
>>> broadcasting it will trigger a fail-safe launch on nukes. I read a story
>>> about this, but later it turned up in several factual contexts.
>>
>> I love Number Stations. No idea what their purpose is today, just loving
>> them. :-)
>>
>> Could put up my own station, announcing random numbers. Having some three
>> letter agencies wasting their time investigating. *g*
>
>They say Guantanamo is nice this time of year

Actually it's nice most of the year (I've been there).  Probably not a
good place to be a prisoner . . .

However it's unlikely that that would happen to a US citizen in the
US.  More likely you'd have your station confiscated for broadcasting
without a license.