Subj : Re: Are there any simple BBC internet radio programs for the Pi? To : All From : The Natural Philosopher Date : Thu Aug 29 2024 00:05:13 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 -- You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .