NOAA Identifies Mystery Noise as Minke Whale

Anonymous Cowherd writes "An underwater noise that has long confounded Navy sonar operators turned out to be a call of the minke whale, the Sacramento Bee reports. Scientists at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego made the discovery this fall when they heard the noise during a research expedition and saw a minke whale surfacing. While the story mentions minkes in the North Pacific, here's a sample from an Atlantic minke."

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[brejc8]

Whale researchers have found what the annoying sound that keeps interrupting their recordings of Minke Whales. The sonar pings have been desturbing whase scientists for years. The source was unknown until recently when a submarine surfaced shortly after destroying a research crews sound recording.

Ah...

[afabbro]

...so that explains the probe nearing the earth right now, disabling all power grids in its path. Judging by the pollution count in the atmosphere...

They are mistaken!

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

This is really the sound of millions of linux supporters crying out, then suddenly silenced as it was once again proven that Linux is still harder to use than Windows.

speaking of sampling

[josephgrossberg]

When do we get the P. Diddy remix?

Electric shaver?

[bhaskin]

Whoever it is thinks that sounds like an electric shaver is in bad need of a new shaver.