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Listening to Leonids

Posted by michael on from the ground-control-to-major-tom dept.

Bill Kendrick writes: "An interesting article was posted by NASA about reports of people hearing Leonids as they burnt up in the atmosphere. And not 5 minutes later, like you'd expect, but instantly. Apparently this is thanks to very low frequency radio signals given off by the meteors as they burn."

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  1. northern (and southern) lights do this too... by killthiskid · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    I remember reading about the same type of thing occuring during very intense northern lights. Same sort of thing, where the event and sound occured at the same time, and there couldn't possibly be time for the sound to travel the distance.

    IRC, it was the same sort of thing, an ELF interaction directly in the brain.

    So my thought is, could we use this for actual communication? Cause voices in someones head?