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[Caid Ivik]

a czech anarchist art-group Ztohoven hit the live-panorama broadcast, showing a nuclear explosion over Krkonose mountains; Czech Television staff spreads curses on them, but otherwise people get it positively - finally, public TV becomes really public...

http://aktualne.centrum.cz/video/?id=92965

there's nothing like a smell of nuke in the morning  ;D

[Andrew]

So are you saying this group hacked into a live feed showing the landscape and included a nuke going off?

Pretty cool, although kinda scary. I'd be scared if I were watching a live feed from where I'm from and saw a nuke go off :P

[Tezcatlipoca]

Well Andrew, I think gathering from what Caid said and what appears on the video is that this public access channel shows a live feed of this valley in the Krkonose mountains, and this group of artists with a fun sense of humor artificially added in a simulation of a small atomic explosion into the looping feed. I'm guessing some measure of a protest against the ongoing development of a US/NATO missile defense shield?

[Andrew]

Why is the USA putting missile defence in Eastern Europe?

That doesn't make sense. Are they trying to put defence in countries next to Russia?

I couldn't figure that out last week when it was said that Bush wants to put their missile defence system in countries in Europe.