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DC's Lost Radio Station Still Transmitting Inauguration Road Closures from 2013
- metalliqaz 6y agoI really wish they were able to report where it was from. He seems to have had a good relationship with his contact in the government, perhaps he should follow up.
- floatingatoll 6y agoThere could be national security implications preventing that; e.g. it was broadcasting for an event protected by the Secret Service, so presumably they had non-zero involvement in its deployment planning.
- therealcamino 6y agoIt was run by the local DC Department of Transportation, not the federal government, so it's not likely to be too sensitive.
- thakoppno 6y agoHow many 9s of uptime is that?
- theamk 6y agoThat's statistics for you. While the large server room will have failures pretty frequently, an individual device may easily operate for a long time. Most of my desktops lasted for many years without any failures. Some devices, like garage openers or sprinker controllers, lasted even longer -- they operated for 20+ years.
- hehetrthrthrjn 6y agoImagine many years in the future, long after humanity has destroyed itself and become extinct, aliens land and all they encounter is this message transmitting on a loop. It would become a hallowed relic of a mysterious civilization, uninterpretable but surely containing some powerful wisdom that was left behind in order to warn others.
- someonehere 6y agoI remember a Ray Bradbury story in elementary school I read. Don’t remember the short story title, but it was an automated house that did all its chores under the reader’s assumption all the automation was happening while the owners were out at work or running errands. Turns out that all the humans were wiped out by an atomic bomb as I remember the story describing irradiated shadows/outlines of people on the side of the house. Your comment reminded me of that story.
- 8bitsrule 6y agoBecause it was Bradbury, I remembered the 'rain' in that title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh... Audio for your nostalgia available here (Ep. 11): https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles/Dimension_X_1950-06-17__11_ThereWillComeSoftRain-ZeroHour.mp3 https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles/Dimensi...
- EricE 6y agoRussian animation of it is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc
- fogihujy 6y agoUntil they find a pair of solar-powered speakers blasting "Africa" on repeat, in the middle of a desert.
- beamatronic 6y agoA society could mass produce such transmitters and land them on any asteroids that happened by.
- grkvlt 6y ago> uninterpretable therefore (as i assume is the tradition with all archaologists, alien or otherwise) classified as 'for ceremonial or religious purposes' - and, since it was for a presedential inaugiuration, they're not wrong either...
- ncmncm 6y agotl;dr: Word got out, somebody turned it off, nobody knows who, nobody knows where it was, nobody knows why it was on. No answers, only questions.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoSomewhere in some unused office or walled off closet there is a Linux 2.4 server still responding to a ping.
- sidpatil 6y agohttps://www.bradleymonk.com/wp/weve-lost-server-54/ https://www.bradleymonk.com/wp/weve-lost-server-54/ http://bash.org/?5273 http://bash.org/?5273 https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/69y8px/ever_lose_a_server_physically_tell_us_your_story/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/69y8px/ever_lose_...
- cybert00th 6y agoFor goodness sakes! They don't even say where it was broadcasting from!