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Which reminds me of a catastrophe movie, where all countries launched all their nukes, and earth became radioactively poisoned. A submarine survived, looking for signs of life, and they received sporadic messages like "the whales are fine" (which made sense to them since whales live under-water). They went to the origin of the signal, only to find a computer turning on and off because of its solar panel, sending messages at every boot.


> They went to the origin of the signal, only to find a computer turning on and off because of its solar panel, sending messages at every boot.

In the original film [0] and book, the signal is caused by a soda-bottle being knocked by a window-blind against a Morse-code telegraph key.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)


This would be an interesting watch, I tried searching but couldn't find it, can you share the name of the movie?


I think it's On the Beach, a remake of a 1950s movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/

Here's the original: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/


Brilliant book too! Well worth a read.


Which sort of reminds me of SOMA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(video_game)


oh crap... now I had some sort of flashback from Fallout 4 (Yangtze) :)

Thanks guys for sharing the link of the movie.




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