From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 28/08/2024 23:40, candycanearter07 wrote:   
   > druck  wrote at 20:33 this Wednesday (GMT):   
   >> On 28/08/2024 19:09, Chris Green wrote:   
   >>> At the moment Radio 4 on 198khz is the best option but I don't know   
   >>> how long that is going to last.   
   >>   
   >> Quite literally until the end of the world.   
   >>   
   >> Our Trident nuclear subs check to see if civilisation still exists by   
   >> tuning in to Radio 4 long wave, if they don't hear anything, they launch!   
   >>   
   >> ---druck   
   >   
   >   
   > That is slightly scary.   
      
   Indeed-  if true - which I doubt.   
   There is a James Follett radio play I was listening to earlier on which   
   a system of satellites was used as a watchdog timer to prevent nuclear   
   war, but unfortunately some experiment goes wrong and sends a load of   
   metallic chaff into low earth orbit so the submarine cant hear them...   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm0PE29vLpk   
      
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