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Listen To The Universe On Your iPod
ptorrone writes "The New York Times had a great story about Dr. Mark Whittle, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia who has taken the cosmic background radiation of the universe and made a series of sounds. The folks over at Engadget made the sounds available in MP3s so you can listen to them on your computer, iPod or whatever. Also, If you'd like to read more about Dr. Mark Whittle's work visit his site, there are a lot of presentations and information regarding Big Bang Acoustics."
Is it coincidental that the MP3s sound an awful lot like a bomb fuse burning and then a toilet flushing?
The Universe was created by the big bang in the high-school men's bathroom!
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...if you want to hear the sounds of the Big Bang!
before this turns up sampled in a hip-hop song?
Fucking A, for the love of free beer, would you stop pimping Apple?
/. editors add/allow such flamebait in the articles just to enjoy the flame fests. And like a retard I just complied....
I think the
Damnit, knew I shouldn't have left the tinfoil hat at home today.
IOException - Can't Speak
Teenager 2: The universe, man, the universe.
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Just what I need to spend 300 bucks or more on an electronic device to hear the universe.
I have been doing this with a Sea Shell for decades
Let me know if you hear sounds in prime number intervals.
so I can *see* the universe.
eleven plus two / twelve plus one
I just hear some cosmic fart...oh wait my microphone is on.
before Puff Daddy remixes it.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
To experience the original sound of the big bang in all its glory, turn your volume gain up 11 billion deciBels. Amplifiers that only go to +10 GdB gain just wont cut it for true audiophools.
the AC
Some slight hearing loss may occur. Don't try this at home, go to a friends house.
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
Personally I would have thought Space Invaders, but I really can't argue with the universe can I?
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
... I'll probably listen to the Big Crunch before the Big Bang.
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You hear Carl Sagan saying "billlllions and billllions"...
First the Universe, the next thing we'll be listening to is bit-by-bit samples of old *nix binaries.
>cool hack that enables your iPod to listen to some E.T. radio station or something
.ogg files? ;-)
perhaps they only wanted to emphasize that these were not
Pythagoras didn't need an iPod...
I'm sure the original poster views all his IR astronomy images in their most accurate respresentation.
Due to limitations of slashdot, I'm unable to present such an image here, but I can show you the negative of such a photo:
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Then again, it's not as though God would find a music industry lawyer in heaven, right?
Definitely sounds like the old defender video game... or else the aliens really do sound like that and Atari managed to hit the nail on the head.... Either way, I'm scared.
Of blankness, I know nothing.
Just this morning saw an Outer Limits episode where teenagers who listened to a certain recording of noise from outer space become zombies and began to turn into aliens. I had to go to work so I didn't catch the twist (not that the Outer Limits really has Twilight Zone quality twists), but it seems a bit strange to me that MP3 records of sound from space would now be made available after I just watched that show this morning. Or maybe I'm just not getting enough sleep.