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Move Over Nessie, Here Comes Bloop

Posted by timothy on from the giant-squid-giant-burp dept.

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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  1. Re:Hear the Bloop by eggstasy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you "fix" the sound, by slowing it down those same 16 times and increasing the volume (it is inaudible after the stretching), it is actually a very interesting sound.Frightening, really.It's a popcorn-meets-earthquake kind of sound.
    Hope you have a good subwoofer, this is very low frequency stuff. If anyone cares to get the "fixed" wav its about 2.5 mb, or just 1 compressed with RAR. No mp3 sorry, it totally mangled the sound when i tried it.