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Pittsburgh's Grant Building has a replica of a 1930s-era morse code aviation beacon that's supposed to blink out the letters P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H. On July 5th, 2009, it wasn't really doing that. If I have the time, I'll add some titles and an unlabeled version of the clip.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• grant
• building
• pittsburgh
• morse
• code
• aviation
• beacon

[alanr4447a]

Well, only one thing to do....officially change the name of the city!

Then ever'thin'll be down in the 'Bkrrh!

[newherkimer]

just heard about this on All Things Considered, haha

[KtwMjsuperfan]

Why Does It have a Beacon??? (I don't exactly know what this is for...)

[lacrossestar83]

I SAW THIS ON THE RADIO

[sirlouie]

FYI, I can now see the flashing beacon from my desk today, 28 Sep 2009, due to the cloud cover. It currently says P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R but it stops there. The G from G-20 must have left and gotten the H out of there. :) (I know, I know - hey, it made ME laugh!)

[Baseballstorm47]

i saw it on the kdka news too

[RADSPYstealth]

haha just saw that on kdka news

[mwmalecky]

kudos for that.

[heeiiii]

fail

[opinion56]

who gives a shit

[avt1889]

I heard about this on NPR yesterday. Interesting how very few people paid attention to this until someone figured out the error.