Pittsburgh’s Grant Building Is Signalling .. Pitetsbkrrh?

So I didn’t realize that the flashing becon on top of the Grant Building was anythign but that,a flashing becon for planes. But apparently it’s suppossed to be flashing out morse code for P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H….except well…it isn’t. Tom Stepleton,a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon (w00t CMU!),was observing the beacon one day,and saw a a string of dots and dashes that translatted to a K. He immediately realized something was off,and created the above video which shows the beacon spelling out P-I-T-E-T-S-B-K-R-R-H. The current owners of the Grant Building are aware of the problem (now?) and working to fix it soon…as an engineer I don’t see how hard it could be to fix this…(Found on Gizmodo)

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