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Or long well written articles, that could be on s/technology or s/news, but will probably get deleted there for some obscur rules

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The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (www.bbc.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ooli to c/goodlongread

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One such idea is that it’s acting as a “Dead Hand” signal; in the event Russia is hit by a nuclear attack, the drone will stop and automatically trigger a retaliation. No questions asked, just total nuclear obliteration on both sides.

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[–] Steveanonymous 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I bought a shortwave radio just to listen to number stations. There is an album iirc called the conet project that has a collection of them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Wilco used samples of it for their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the name of which comes from one of the clips. That got me into this whole phenomenon.