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Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

https://missileer.watch
42•liotier•1h ago

Comments

jacquesm•55m ago
Nice and soothing for when you're already a bit nervous about what the next 13 minutes might bring.
yread•41m ago
Reading this comment when it was exactly 13 minutes old
markus_zhang•27m ago
It shows 13 mins ago for me.
stackghost•37m ago
Is there something extra scary happening?

Usual news headlines on the sources I frequent.

jacquesm•29m ago
> Is there something extra scary happening?

You might get something out of how frequently there are announcements on this channel. That's the only real info you're going to get out of this unless you're in a very select group.

qaz_plm•52m ago
“Skyking, Skyking, do not answer…”
paaloeye•48m ago
Founding Listener :)
FrankWilhoit•37m ago
Latency.
londons_explore•36m ago
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.

jacquesm•30m ago
I think this is the primary.

High bandwidth comms are likely a lot more fragile than this. At the same time: there will be many different transmission channels, and I would expect this one to be useless immediately if someone really did something nasty.

throwaway89864•27m ago
You can probably just point Claude or ChatGPT to decrypt it, it would find that there's some silly and obvious cipher is used that survived from the 60ies, with a 56 bit private key. /this is a wild guess, I don't have any special clearance or access/
jacquesm•24m ago
Not a chance. OTP for sure.
metabagel•18m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
rvba•24m ago
ytxm•24m ago
More on "Skyking" here: https://lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/skyking/
rafram•23m ago
> 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.

vorpalhex•21m ago
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.

dist-epoch•18m ago
> Skyking, Skyking, DO NOT ANSWER

This might be the source of the "DO NOT ANSWER" phrase from Three Body Problem.

LeoPanthera•13m ago
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.
I also dont know anything but Im sure AI / cloud / blockchain / mongoDB / (insert fad here) will solve it due to synergy and other buzzwords.
netsharc•11m ago
Sheesh, hopefully a governmental department that has the NSA nearby would've been warned about this...

Then again, it is the government...

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