There’s an emergency at the Facility down the road, and everyone in a six-mile radius is very likely fucked.
What is the sound that announces your fate?
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oooooOOOOOOOIPP, oooooOOOOOOOOIPP
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WAAAARK … WAAAARK … WAAAARK
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dyOOT! … dyOOT! … dyOOT!
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Something else? (please spell)
Not necessarily an alarm in the literal sense, but the USA’s EAS sound can send a shiver down my spine. Especially if you weren’t expecting it
I love EAS messages. The first part is actually three bursts of machine-readable data encoded as audio, and it’s completely incidental that it’s such a freaky sound.
There have been incidents of EAS-equipped devices triggering an alarm because an otherwise benign broadcast transmitted a valid EAS message without the short end-of-message bursts.