Even though I've never seen an entire episode of the new Battlestar Galactica, I've heard enough from my uncle to know that this picture is of nuclear detonations on the planet Caprica..
This page is best viewed using the Gnommish font (from Artemis Fowl). If you don't have the Gnommish font, I suggest Mark Rosenfelder's Verdurian font. And if you are totally sans Gnommish and sans Verdurian, I suggest your browser's default font.
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The sound you heard as you loaded this page was the BBC interval signal Lillibullero, which has actually mostly been replaced by Bow Bells in the BBC World Service English broadcasts. Back when my pen radio still had batteries, I would tune into the BBC every night - I need new batteries for the pen, because it was really handy. If I got sick of the BBC, I could hit the "Seek" button and listen to KBYU's broadcast of classical music, and I could hit the "Reset" button when I wanted to return to the BBC. If you are looking for more interval signals, you can get them in RealAudio format here.
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