alt Hacker NewsListen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
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A weird little trivia: for some time period the Skyking test messages used band names and other pop culture references as the content of test messages. Iron Maiden, The Cure, Duran Duran, Rush, Hansen... And of course test messages may be sent erroneously so we end up with the nuclear command channel carrying messages like "DISREGARD 'THE CURE' TRANSMITTED AT 19" (https://eam.watch/view/d4272f25-fd33-47a4-9b37-6c55a8ea3d0e)
This is a cool idea. I'm actually quite glad that AI generated stuff is still so very obvious. The world will be a darker place when it isn't.
More on "Skyking" here: https://lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/skyking/
Nice and soothing for when you're already a bit nervous about what the next 13 minutes might bring.
So these messages are presumably encrypted with a one time pad, and some lookup book of what each message of just a few characters means?
And I assume there are also a high bandwidth comms channels, and this is just the backup which is presumably tested each day.
Some context for those not exposed to this previously.
Messages usually mean nothing. An uptick in activity means.. nothing. We're on the tail end of a major exercise so upticks in chatter are probably related to that.
Anyone who posts anything along the lines of "but there were 5x more messages or a really big message so N is going to happen!" is a crazy person. Ignore them.
It's neat, but it's not prophetic.
> Skyking, Skyking, DO NOT ANSWER
This might be the source of the "DO NOT ANSWER" phrase from Three Body Problem.
Founding Listener :)
Latency.
“Skyking, Skyking, do not answer…”
> Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't.
> Preformatted is what you can hear: the same shape every time.
> hearing it is all anyone outside the force can do.
> The day has a shape.
I would recommend switching to a newer Claude model.