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Example at 0:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew In addition to being a very distinctive interruption i
by wrs 2y ago
Example at 0:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew
In addition to being a very distinctive interruption in regular programming (somewhat panic-inducing if you grew up in the 1980s thinking an ICBM could arrive at any moment), there are weather/emergency radios that will automatically turn on when they hear the tones.
Edit: Actually we 1980s kids are more susceptible to the old two-tone EAS Attention Signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emergency_broadcast_system.ogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emergency_broadcast_syste...
- dmonitor 2y agoThey played those tones? That's incredibly reckless. They're still frequently used on television broadcasts to warn about dangerous storms (hurricanes, etc)
- zoklet-enjoyer 2y agoThat's the sound of summer
- dylan604 2y agoBecause there's no such thing as climate change, we get those earlier in spring, and even into winter (Boxing Day tornado in 2015). So no longer just the sound of summer
- dylan604 2y agoFrom my faded memory, I thought they were referred to as Emergency Broadcasting System[0]. The 90s memories confuse it with Emergency Broadcast Network[1]. Not exactly the same thing though [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network