Ahouxr.117
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!houxi!houxr!pete
Mon Feb 22 19:16:54 1982
Re: Strangelove precursors - Eeeeeeee
(3) Anybody got any ideas on where the screenplay-writers got the idea
that nuclear explosions cause telephones to go "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."?
Feedback?? Screams of pain from the switching equipment? The beginning
of a recording, "the number you have reached is no longer in service..."
- Glenn Golden
The idea that nuclear explosions cause telephones to go
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." may come from the fact that priority military
communications lines, (I doubt if this includes an ambassador's telephones),
are equipped with 'continuity detectors' that monitor the connections of
the telephone channels to our major military sites all over the world.
A bulldozer plowing through a cable is, therefore, just as destructive as a
nuclear bomb.
I understand that such a device is used on our 'MOSCOW LINK' between
the US and the USSR.
- Pete Costello -
P.S. An Eloctromagnetic pulse (EMP) can be generated by a nuclear explosion
with potentials of thousands of volts over 100's or 1000's of miles. No
doubt UNIX(tm) systems will go "Eeeeeeeee" then. (Not to mention all of us!)
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