I'm beginning to see the logic behind a secret handshake Seriously though, what with all the threads on skies "unusually" lighting at night and darkening during the day these last 2 weeks... and ATS downtime. It's made me wonder more about the benefits of at least the concept of a "Pssst... I'm a fellow ATS member and I think so much outside the box, I'm doubting there is a box" signal to one another.

If, and lets think positively, there was a short-term but large scale blackout, it would be comforting to know that this largely thoughtful, questioning, peaceful, enlightened, intelligent community wouldn't evaporate at a crucial moment for communication.

On the other hand, as we all may know from experience, not everyone thinks like ATS members and lurkers. The fear of looking outside the box creates odd and occasionally unpleasant reactions from nonATS types. So, we wouldn't want to go around asking strangers willy nilly if they were conspiracy theorists in the hopes of finding each other.

Any ideas of how to keep the ATS network alive without www access?

*Staff Edit - Please do not use all caps in thread titles.




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Count me out. Some people at ATS are the very people I never want knowing who I am!

Just sayin'.

We'll also be the ones mumbling to ourselves "I knew this was going to happen...I knew it..." Over and over again...

Originally posted by seagull
We'll also be the ones mumbling to ourselves "I knew this was going to happen...I knew it..." Over and over again...

I believe that a couple of "I told you so"s will be mixed into the mumbling as well.

A frequency would be a good idea.That we could all tune in to and listen for.If am and fm frequencies are down/jammed then carrier wave or morse communications.
But the frequencies will all be monitored by various so maybe not a good idea if you are talking about a war situation but if was a major disaster like an earthquake then it could be a good idea.

Thanks to whoever did the lower casing. And I see I can just edit it like any other post. I'm one of the dimmer enlightened ones.





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maybe after this - a thread about surviving the survivalists

meantime - a scarlet A?

somewhere conspicuously inconspicuous

Originally posted by trusername
But of course if you're face to face with people, it's much easier to decide how much you want to connect and reveal about yourself.

It's also easier to then decide that you (general) rrrrreally shouldn't have retained an aire of "cyber warrior" and spoke to that other person in such an ill manner on the Internet !!! mmuuaahh !! lol

Maybe a pre-set meeting spot and time? Say at Noon on the 2nd day into a blackout ATS members meet outside city halls?

Originally posted by trusername

Maybe a pre-set meeting spot and time? Say at Noon on the 2nd day into a blackout ATS members meet outside city halls?

Nope, no good.
That's where the American Thoracic Society meets.
Could get confusing.



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