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Move Over Nessie, Here Comes Bloop
great throwdini writes "CNN
is carrying news
(published in this week's
New Scientist)
that scientists have
revealed the existence of a recording
that may point to the presence of
an unknown biological ocean-dweller
nicknamed 'Bloop.' Some suggest a "sea monster" (possibly a giant squid) may be responsible for creating the ruckus. Slashdotters have commented on the discovery of giant
squid
and
octopi
in the past, so maybe the idea of a deep-sea
monster isn't so far-fetched?"
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Bored scientists having fun that day!
Evidence: Loud bloop! sound coming from the ocean.
Conclusion: Monster squid.
Personally, I think it is the sound of a journalist's brain rolling out of his head, and over the side of the boat.
Step into a huge movement. Don't Tread In Me.
I told him not to go swimming after eating them baked beans.
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...if they were just a little more sensitive:
"Psst... Hey Flipper! I'll give you ten clams to squeak right into that microphone over there!"
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here's a link to a wave file of Bloop, sped up 16 times. Fark had this earlier today.
Huge aquatic beast? Never before encountered? Stirring at a time when nuclear trouble is in the air?
Duh. It's clearly Godzilla.
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Godzilla...or Cthulhu?
Christina! Bring me an axe!
They call him Bloop, Bloop, bigger than whales
no-one you see, is louder than he,
and we know Bloop, lives in a world of choice,
making loud bloop noise, under the sea!
This is my
Huh... sounded like a rock plunking into water to me.
I guess I question how they justify thinking it was an animal, and not just some gas escaping from a sac of some sort (rock, vegetation, rotting marine life?)
Ovisouly I am no marine scientist, but it seems that something that sounds like air escaping in water could have a lot more origins than just a "sea monster".
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Which means you probably saw that (A) the by-line wasn't "Geraldo Rivera", and (B) the theory of biological origin was put forth, not by the reporter, but various marine scientists and researchers who saw certain tell-tale characteristics in the sound signature.
Strangely enough, the BBC is reporting that a team of Swedish scientists has discovered evidence of an unidentified monster like Scotland's legendary "Nessie" in a lake in south-eastern Norway. The "Roemsjoen monster" is similar to another Norwegian deep sea creature, affectionately known as Thelma. What is this deep sea world coming too??
Yes, the sound file as posted sounds like a boring water bubble; but keep in mind that they sped it up 16 times normal speed. Try slowing it down (Window's Sound Recorder will do this, for anyone running a win-box looking for an easy solution). Even at 4x slower (4x faster than it's natural speed) it starts to sound like "something", but gets extremely hard to hear. Turn your volume and bass way up. It's actually pretty cool. I envy anyone who's got the Sub that can hear it at normal speed. Is it a "Monster"? Maybe, probably not. But it doesn't sound like a water bubble at normal speed.
...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
My most-excellent friend Sara made a few observations about squid. Namely, that contrary to the CNN.com article, squid != octopus and that using the word multi-tentacled (as opposed to all those tentacle-less species of squid out there)to describe one does little but make the Hentai perves on your mailing list perk up.
1. It's massive.
2. It might be a "giant squid" (Heh.)
3. It's in the Pacific ocean.
It's obviously Cthulhu guys, doesn't anyone read Lovecraft? He's supposely sleeping at the bottom of the ocean...though calling an ancient evil something silly like "Bloop" might have him wake up in an uproar.
I see someone threw one of these guys onto the ice last night at Joe Lewis...
"...and here comes and earchquake," he says.
if it's Godzilla, only the Japanese are fucked.
It's coming to eat us, of course.
These are Earth farts. We've been giving our dear mother some pretty severe "gastrointestinal" grief lately.
PegQuin--I've got a sneakin' suspicion