alt Hacker NewsListen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
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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.
Very interesting website and well made. A lot of info i did not know so far. I have listened to it a while back when the Kerch bridge, Ukraine, was targeted, there was something going on with those messages the day before. But we cant decrypt those messages, only to listen when they were broadcasted and how many of it. A sudden spike in activity can tell us something, but we dont need to go in panic mode.
Is there some reason it's written 11175 kHz instead of 11.175 MHz?
I love this site. Everytime I heard skyking messages it was on 8775 khz I think, if anyone can explain that I'd love to hear if there are multiple freqs.
Also: has electronic music such as techno sampled these yet...? Seems rife for a dancefloor hit!
> Skyking, Skyking, DO NOT ANSWER
This might be the source of the "DO NOT ANSWER" phrase from Three Body Problem.
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.
"We cannot launch our missiles unless both you and I agree!"
Re: the partial EAM from "Crimson Tide".
Interested to learn more about the Missileer device listed on the site...
I just want to know why the crew’s chairs have such thick thick head rests? That just seems like a waste of material
Founding Listener :)
Ah, some nice white noise to fall asleep to...
Until the apocalypse arrives that is.
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.
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.
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)