91 points

It’s measurements.

If the numbers repeat in a pattern, it’s fine as long as the pattern isn’t broken.

If the numbers don’t repeat in a pattern, it’s fine as long as it doesn’t become a pattern.

If the pattern or lack of it changes, start worrying. It will be fine as long as it resumes regular operation. Else, things have changed.

If the numbers are replaced with words, something of importance was discovered. It will be fine as long as the words don’t mention you directly.

If the words weave a tale or address you/somebody else, you need to wake up. It is time to wake up.

If you can’t wake up, I’m sorry, you’ve missed your number or sequence. Try again on a different frequency.

It’s usually that kind of thing that attracts the curious.

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45 points

Dude this is fucking me up right before bed

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8 points

No need to tell me about it. I wrote that before going to sleep.

Or was it during…? Huh.

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1 point

Why, why do I have Lemmy open just before bed. :| I’m fascinated but also creeped.

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10 points

Yeah, I’m just gonna…not look into this potential rabbit hole.

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1 point

Not looking into it is how they get you!

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62 points

This shit again. Those numbers are nothing to worry about at all, they’re just meant for the Russian sleepers sitting in their apartments next to NATO military facilities, telling them to continue not setting off their hydrogen bombs. I don’t know why people worry about this.

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29 points

Exactly! It’s when you DON’T hear numbers that you’ve gotta worry.

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14 points

I don’t worry, why would I worry? After all the numbers haven’t stopped…yet.

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8 points

A lot of them did shut down after the fall of the USSR actually.

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I lost interest in numbers stations and am much more interested in trying to figure out who was responsible for the Max Headroom hijacking of 2 TV stations in Chicago that occurred in the late 80’s.

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10 points

That was wild. It’s hard to imagine that actually happening, but I know it did.

The structure of how TV was setup seems like it would be insanity now. They just used fast scan TV EM signals and bounced them wherever. If you got in the middle between them, or simply pointed a much more powerful transmitter/antenna array at the relay, you could override the signal.

Crazy. WTF.

I recently was looking for anything I could find for the max headroom TV series and couldn’t find a thing anywhere.

Oh well.

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4 points

There was some urban legend about the (6 ?) beep signals at the end if the TV day that supposedly shut down tv relay stations. You’d hear it as a last thing in the night when broadcasting shut down.

One legend said someone stopped all TV maliciously with it, another that a alarm clock on live TV did the same. Wonder if there was any truth to it.

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38 points

An odd combination of mysterious, ominous, and boring as fuck.

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11 points

Accurate.

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30 points

I remember back when I found the Conet project CD boxset uploaded on the internet when I was into number stations.

It is a collection of number station recordings, released to try and get attention and focus people’s efforts to find and decode these signals.

A subtype of number stations are polytone stations, they broadcast tones that a computer can interpret into the message, so when you hear it, it is just what sounds like random tones played randomly at high speed.

The full recording also has a few more sections, there is often an identification string, like a peice of music to help agents tune in to the source, then there is a sync broadcast to have the computer figure out the timings, I have heard this as a rapid stacato tone signal.

Anyway, one of the most terrifying experiences I have had with media was when I was at a LAN party, I was playing OpenTTD with my friends in coop, while listening to the Conet project.

I get to a track that just starts with a slow droning rythm, I zone out from the sound and it is kinda nice with a slow, allmost meditative tempo in my headphones.

This goes on for minutes as I relax, then suddenly, the sound speeds up and a different stacato rythm starts.

And before I could react, my ears are filled with weird random beeps at a high speed.

I just ripped my headphones off my head as it sort of felt as if my brain was being reprogrammed, the long slow drone part felt as if it was made to soften my brain up, for the fast beeps to affect me.

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16 points

I, too, enjoy consuming toadstools.

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5 points

I have never done shrooms or any drug.

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5 points

Well then no wonder your brain’s so susceptible to radio programming. Take some shrooms to fortify yourself man!

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8 points

“…must…kill…mickey…mouse…”

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2 points

You almost got snowcrashed

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