DC's Lost Radio Station Still Transmitting Inauguration Road Closures from 2013

There could be national security implications preventing that; e.g. it was broadcasting for an event protected by the Secret Service, so presumably they had non-zero involvement in its deployment planning.

I remember a Ray Bradbury story in elementary school I read. Don’t remember the short story title, but it was an automated house that did all its chores under the reader’s assumption all the automation was happening while the owners were out at work or running errands. Turns out that all the humans were wiped out by an atomic bomb as I remember the story describing irradiated shadows/outlines of people on the side of the house.

Your comment reminded me of that story.

Until they find a pair of solar-powered speakers blasting "Africa" on repeat, in the middle of a desert.

> uninterpretable

therefore (as i assume is the tradition with all archaologists, alien or otherwise) classified as 'for ceremonial or religious purposes' - and, since it was for a presedential inaugiuration, they're not wrong either...

A society could mass produce such transmitters and land them on any asteroids that happened by.

That's statistics for you. While the large server room will have failures pretty frequently, an individual device may easily operate for a long time.

Most of my desktops lasted for many years without any failures. Some devices, like garage openers or sprinker controllers, lasted even longer -- they operated for 20+ years.

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