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Vanda was still stunned.
Assets were not retasked easily, but he understood the reason as he
looked again at the cycling characters that had caused yet another decision
to be made in spite of the cost:
THIS IS THE VOICE OF COMMAND Z.
REGARDING THE TERROR ALERT AT METEOR CRATER
ARIZONA
WE TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DESIGN,
CONTENT, CONTEXT, AND DELIVERY OF THE PACKAGE BURIED ON THE CRATER FLOOR;
WHOSE IGNITION IS IMMINENT
THERE MAY BE ANOTHER MESSAGE
REPEATING...
Same as 2002... and 2006.
Bringing out the worst in Human Nature was no longer enough.
The balloon had actually gone up this time. 18 of them. Enough to lift
a mini-nuke. Any one or all of them could have been filled with anthrax.
Instead, the spherical "package" had separated - spilling hundreds of
what turned out to be bumper stickers - into the crater as the lower
half slid harmlessly down it's tether to the fenced area on the crater
floor where the whole thing had been attached. Harmless, and foolishly
risky. Until the balloons started showing up on television, and the
bumper stickers on a website of interest that explained that the slogans
had been gleaned from normal citizens prior to the '06 mid-terms in
order to influence same.
Vanda even had his favorite: "CONFIDENT,
COCKY, LAZY, DEAD".
He had first red-flagged Zann after those shows in Colorado
Springs that almost let the DREAMLAND cat out of the
bag. 12 years later, D had, in fact, replaced R, but Vanda still had
his job, and his job had become neutralizing Zann. Tycho however, was
still out there and getting far too close to getting on the air and
tipping the balance of power the wrong way... away from those who intended
to keep it. He'd actually sent an email to SETI, which had been intercepted
guaranteeing there would be no response:
In the movie "Contact", the Analog output
of earth's signal is shown as starting w/ the Rolling Stones and ending
w/ Hitler's Munich speech. FIRST, is there a technical term for that
envelope of Analog/Signal information? I think DeChardin refers to the
Noosphere, but that includes consciousness. Also, I realize that there
is no "Stones" point as the transmission are continuing... but...
SECOND, when Analog television ends
in 244 days, will that create a trailing edge to the envelope that the
Munich broadcast started?
THIRD, Am I the only one wondering
about this? So far, I've been told that not all analog signals will
disappear (the Stones could have been on the radio, in which case, the
Contact opening was a stretch as it didn't represent only signals like
the one returned from Vega).. Does that mean someone listening to OUR
output from 1936(?) would just notice a weaker signal after February,
or actual silence on the band(?) they were paying attention too? Seth
Shostak said recently that something like this might be a theoretical
reason we've heard nothing(?) ourselves, which seems to indicate that
Digital won't do in the "Search" business.
Someone tried to explain this all away
by claiming a 3 second burst of Laser light could go on indefinitely
- stopping only when it hit something. I explained that there would
still be only a 3 second burst which would have a start and an end,
even if it went on forever. That's when the contact sequence entered
my mind as once again, with Hitler as the starting point for all the
signal since, there would have to be an end point when the signal is
shut down.
"CAN'T GET NO. SATISFACTION."
Tycho Zann / 06.18.2008
June 18. Not bad for someone not on THE LIST. Good thing he WAS the
only one wondering.
Shostak would have to be talked to. Noory shouldn't have let that slip
either. Fools. But to paraphrase a forgotten Astronaut's wife: "convenient
fools sometimes".
At least Zann, and his weaponized playlist would never get on COAST
TO COAST AM. Bill Mumy yes - the grandson of Erich
Zann and his uber-music... NEVER.
But SETI?
In all these years, only one author had written: "...the Stockholm
Syndrome - the fondness and loyalty one could supposedly come to feel
for even the most brutal captor. Since 9-11, America had developed
Stockholm Syndrome towards it's own government".
Since ZERO HOUR, the American Military had been charging
into other people's countries like Patty Hearst into a bank.
Given a third term, everyone else might have figured it out. Maybe
even freed themselves.
Now, even that would not happen, and no Battlestar Galactica freak
was going to UNDO anything. Especially the "imminent... something".
Time to flip the switch.
Jordan Vanda opened the TRANSITION: RESET (GIT MO) Protocols, and tried to put
all thoughts of limbic pacing, the Signal, and a fully entrained Human
Race out of his mind, while following the orders that would ensure slavery
for any American outside of the super-hardened (R)efuges like the one
he - and the Elect he served - would escape to.
Only his concerns about February 17, 2009, Tycho Zann, and COMMAND
Z remained.
Until the new message came up.
MSECTOR
6-4 / w3/08/11/28
T-81
& HOLDING... previous DEADLINE rescinded.
RESET:
Transition Protocol deemed adequate until further notice.
So, They weren't going to null everyone out after all. Just turn them into idiots. Trackable idiots paying for their own idiocy. Maybe 24 hours of Mork & Mindy WOULD be enough. If not, there was always the LOCKUP Thanksgiving Marathon, and back-to-back chances to see "My Cousin Vinny", "MIDWAY", "Confessions of a Serial Killer" or "ARMAGEDDON" for the 3rd month in a row. ARMAGEDDON! Soon, 13 channels of shit would become a fond memory. Extinction could wait. Thank GOD he was in TV. Jordan Vanda's next thought was how quickly Zann would find out & what he would do when he did. This was the guy who had sat through MEN IN BLACK with shades on just in case the movie itself was the Neuralyzer. If his run at SETI was any indication, he probably knew that any Advanced Civilization would have been watching the planet's total electronic output since the "Munich" signal. Especially the World Wide Web, where Zann had the advantage. An advantage he had used so effectively in 1997. It would be an interesting 81 days. At least T-62* was still GO, with 999** right behind it
* On December 17th, 2008, local television stations broadcast a "TEST" spot so that anyone unsure if their TV would work after TRANSITION could verify same. The 2nd level entrainment signal lasted only a minute but all viewers that tuned in longer than the first 10 seconds, were exposed to limbic triggers to be fired at a later time. In this way, even those without the correct digital equipment on or after February 17, 2009, could still be accessed, as per future operational protocols.
** With all the pre-fabricated anger sweeping the nation, and concern over what the President of the United States will say to American elementary students, no one pays any attention to the hour-long TRANSITION carrier wave that the children are subjected to during the September 9th, 2009, cover speech; the first use of the DTV Protocol on civilians. Children. RESET indeed .
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