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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. Naturally! by Peter+Trepan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Its CowboyNeal by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I told him not to go swimming after eating them baked beans.

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  3. What the mics would have heard... by dankow · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...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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  4. Hear the Bloop by Jodrell · · Score: 3, Informative

    here's a link to a wave file of Bloop, sped up 16 times. Fark had this earlier today.

    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.

    2. Re:Hear the Bloop by texchanchan · · Score: 2

      NOAA has a bunch of mysterious sounds, each scarier than the next. Try "Julia" or "Slowdown" on for size, but not if you're by yourself in the dark thinking about what lives on this planet that we don't know about.

  5. It's pretty obvious to me by nosferatu-man · · Score: 3, Funny

    Huge aquatic beast? Never before encountered? Stirring at a time when nuclear trouble is in the air?

    Duh. It's clearly Godzilla.

    'j

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    1. Re:It's pretty obvious to me by alacqua · · Score: 2

      Actually, its Mozilla.

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    2. Re:It's pretty obvious to me by tm2b · · Score: 2

      Nah.

      It's just Sigmund.

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  6. Re:No...No..."...many tentacled..." by nosferatu-man · · Score: 2

    Yikes. Either way, we're fucked.

    'jfb

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  7. That's amazing? by Eagle7 · · Score: 2

    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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    1. Re:That's amazing? by Dr.+Manhattan · · Score: 2
      I guess I question how they justify thinking it was an animal...

      Well, they heard it repeatedly, not just once. And the frequency characteristics resemble those of other animal sounds.

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  8. the 2-minute offense by realgone · · Score: 2
    Hmmm... You replied 14 minutes after the /. article went up and, let's be honest, your post didn't take all that long to type. So I'm sure you had at least 12 whole minutes of free time to actually read the article in question, right?

    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.

  9. Listen at the Real Speed! by still_sick · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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