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Listen to the Sky

Posted by michael on from the snap-crackle-pop dept.

disposable60 writes "Sky Ear will be a one-night event in which a glowing "cloud" of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sky."

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  1. So where do all these phones land? by Alex+Reynolds · · Score: 0, Troll

    So much for laws against littering. Helium balloons don't stay aloft forever.

  2. Re:That's incredible by snot.dotted · · Score: 1, Troll

    The guy thats doing this is a failed architec, he teaches now.check out http://www.haque.co.uk/ for the most pretentious arty twaddle you've ever seen in you life. Well if its a windy night, it would be fun to see it all braking its guy rope and seeing it drift into the flight path over Heathrow airport. A quick quote from his website "To chart this unexplored territory, shortly before dusk in Spring 2004 the Sky Ear structure will be released from its ground moorings and slowly float up into the sky sampling the electromagnetic spectrum as it rises, rather like a vertical radar sweep." The rf spectrum is hardly unexplored, over used a crowded maybe. The various government agencies constanly monitor all parts of the RF spectrum.