Roastacon Day 3: UVB-76 Has Stopped Transmitting

Geek forums are abuzz today with the news that “the Buzzer” is dead. UVB-76—a Cold War Era shortwave transmitter that’s been beaming the same eerie, repetitive signal on the same fixed frequency since at least 1982, has abruptly gone silent.

As we know from the movies, this can only mean one of two things: 1) We are all going to die horribly in the last reel or 2) We will discover that Mr. Mittens, the space station’s rascally feline mascot, harmlessly short-circuited the Doomsday Beacon when “he” scratched out a cozy nest behind the heat-exchanger in preparation for birthing a litter of adorable kittens. Then we’ll all die.

The sudden extinction of UVB-76 may or may not be causally tethered to last night’s initiation of the Creative-Class Access Blogotron Accelerator, but true Forteans understand that these things are rarely just “coincidence.”

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/06/10 at 12:44 PM • Permalink

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The leftospheric particles over DC are fully, positively charged after the Roastaconalian extended Creative-Class Debauch, which culminated in eco-friendly brunch at a fair-trade, organic, carbon-neutral boite in—-somewhere Washingtonian. I’ve no idea. But Treetinis were on the menu!

So was Iraqi hash, which was quite surprisingly tasty. We’ve evidently improved our recipe since 2003.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 06/06/10 at 05:47 PM

They plant the trees in India, which totally mystifies me.

Comment by Tom65 on 06/06/10 at 10:03 PM

Despite the notable absence of eminences such as Webster Tarpley and Lady Humpsalot For-Bling,I think it was a smashing (smashed?) success. And had we wanted to order a shitload of pizzas, we could’ve figured out how to do it.