NASA Music Out of This World

Koyaanisqatsi writes "With detection instruments on NASA's Voyagers, Galileo, Cassini and other spacecraft, University of Iowa physicist Dr. Don Gurnett recorded waves that course through outer space. Gurnett converted the plasma waves into sounds which inspired a 10-movement musical composition called "Sun Rings." Sample the sounds from Galileo, Voyager and Cassini. (Full Story)"

Comments

Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Now we'll get sued by the Alien RIAA.

In space...

[Anonymous Coward]

no one can hear your 10-movement musical composition

That's odd

[Salsaman]

I played one of the wavs backwards, and I could distinctly hear the words "European Space Agency engineers are weenies".

and then

[chamenos]

we'll finally find out where celine dion really came from, won't we? and as usual, canada would be really sorry about all the inconvenience they caused. mmhmm...

kthxbye~!

Re:and then

[__aaaaxm1522]

Sorry for the inconvenience? That's just something our politicians tell yours. We've been using the US as a toxic waste dump for bad talent for *years* and you people haven't caught on yet! Celine Dion, Alanis Morrisette, William Shatner, Lorne Greene, and our latest triumph, April Lavigne!

If it wasn't for you guys, we'd have to put up with them here. The US is the Botany Bay of the Canadian Entertainment Industry!

10-movement musical composition called "Sun Rings.

[3-State Bit]

insert something about holst.

Thats not space

[Anonymous Coward]

thats just

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

The best part

[jukal]

...with stories from space like this, is that they could as well let you download a sample made of the scientist's toilet experience, and no-one would notice any difference. Anyway, listening to this is very fancy....because... you know... it's from space - it must be awesome!

bah.

[Inominate]

Well it beats the silent "music".
But not by much.

some crackling and squealing patterns

[techNETia]

Riley listened carefully to some crackling and squealing patterns from the magnetic field the Galileo spacecraft discovered surrounding Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. "It sounded to me like a voice saying, 'beebopterismo,' [...]

This guy should come over to the playground in my neighbourhood, he'll be able to record a lot of music! Beebopterismo's, hiphopterismo's, as much as he likes, and not to forget... the swing!!

If..

[Frank of Earth]

.. Lance made it into space, we could have had a quartet.

Sample the sounds from Galileo, Voyager and Cassini and now featuring Lance Bass!

Whale songs?

[Xpilot]

It's actually whale songs coming from an alien probe. We've got to send Captain Kirk back in time to get 2 humpback whales to reply. Oh wait they're not extinct yet.