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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. frizzy hair? by Nate+Fox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Simple materials like aluminum foil, thin wires, pine needles -- even dry or frizzy hair -- can intercept and respond to a VLF field.

    I bet Weird Al was having the multimedia show of a lifetime!

    1. Re:frizzy hair? by Raven42rac · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well if were talking about Weird Al, then the abbreviation would have to be changed to UHF, hahahaha, I kill me.

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  2. More likely ... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    One /. reader at Nasa close with his computer close to the antennas saw this earlier post and tried out the program.

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  3. Angry Humpbacks by hubbabubba · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear this sort of thing really pisses off whales.

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  4. Re:How the fuck does this work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    In short, the fucking radio waves make smallish objects like hair and fucking pine needles vibrate, like a fucking microwave does to fucking water particles, but on a much fucking grander scale, which you would already fucking know if you had read the fucking article.

    This fucking insightful post was brought to you by the letter F, and fucking Tourette's Syndrome.

    Love,
    Anonymous Fucking Coward

  5. YES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    hahahaha, I kill me.
    Let's all have a turn.

  6. Re:Douglas Addams, froody dude, now turned prophet by shogun · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess I'll hold out for the frictionless car.

    That might run very smoothly however, braking and steering might be a little difficult though...

  7. Re:Douglas Addams, froody dude, now turned prophet by martyn+s · · Score: 2, Funny

    A frictionless car would have problems accelerating too.