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Scientists Discover Singing Iceberg
Ant writes "ABC News Online reports that scientists, monitoring earth movements in Antarctica, say they have found a singing iceberg. They say the sound waves from the iceberg cannot be heard by humans, with a frequency of around 0.5 hertz. They resemble a swarm of bees or an orchestra warming up when played at higher speed."
First off, I suspect if you took almost anything and "listened" to it, you would find some such rhythm and/or pattern (either by speeding it up, as in this article, or by slowing it down). To then leap to "singing" is truly a leap. Of course the last line of the article may be some indicator:
Methinks the author may be confusing Britney Spears, et. al., with purveyors of music.
I farted and it sounded like a 50 cent song. Who the fuck cares?
Of course not! The RIAA has already signed the iceberg to an exclusive 10-year contract.
We all know Britney Spears likes to go up and down....little whore that she is...
Does it take requests? All I can imagine, like anyone else here (And call me Captain Obvious if you wish) is that it's "singing" because of it being so close to fracture. Stress causes noise in large items, like buildings, trees and obviously now icebergs.
"Through the desolate summits swept ranging, intermittent gusts of the terrible antarctic wind; whose cadences sometimes held vague suggestions of a wild and half-sentient musical piping ... and which for some subconscious mnemonic reason seemed to me disquieting and even dimly terrible." -- H.P. Lovecraft, 'At The Mountains of Madness'
Cthulhu fhtagn! Iä! Iä!
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Is it coming out to CD soon?
Demented But Determined.
that's no iceberg! it's a singing space station!
also, it's atlantis! with resonance and amplitude etc. of the iceberg they powered their hover crafts and tv's!
RIAA already launched a lawsuit against the iceberg, after noticing that it's playing back tunes stolen from the Internets.
"Continuing this education and enforcement campaign is critical to fostering an environment where both online mafia services and traditional extortion can flourish", said Cary Sherman, President, RIAA. "Virtually every week, we see evidence that the music community's anti-piracy program is having its intended effect."
Many supporters of the iceberg, now dubbed as "the Singing Iceberg", have claimed that the sounds emitted by the iceberg are not even near any of the songs made by the artists represented by RIAA.
Mr. Sherman is sure that -- as most of the RIAA lawsuits -- this will be settled outside the courtroom. Therefore RIAA doesn't have to prove its claims, and they still get a nice amount of money. "And that's what America is all about", he finished emotionally.
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It's always stories like this, that I like best. A blackhole or something is out there oscillating 86 octaves below a low E. The Sun makes a buzzing noise that sounds a lot like static as it expands and contracts slightly every day. Elephants make low noises, too... and today, we've discovered an iceberg vibrating one half a time per second.
Usually I like science, but ya know, everything out there, even you, vibrates... do we need a story on it ?
I can't wait to pirate the iceberg's next album...
500 MHz +/- 100 MHz
"They resemble a swarm of bees or an orchestra warming up when played at higher speed."
And the sound resembles a human voice when played at higher speed, different modulations, and with occasional pauses inserted!
and was not impressed.
I tried and tried to dance to it but none of my usual "mowing the lawn", "churning the butter", "pulling the weeds", or "climbing the ladder" sweet dance moves seemed to fit...
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<Sabdo> on one of those speech-to-text programs my friend ripped ass onto the mic.
<Sabdo> and it typed out "France"
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The next article on this topic will be that the bees will be joining forces with the RIAA and issuing cease and decist orders to all icebergs and to every human with "ice", "berg", or "borg" in their name.
This is almost as bad as when they told us all about a black hole emitting a Bb thirty octaves lower than middle C. (A period in the wave was about a lightyear long, or something ridiculous like that.) Or whatever the specifics were.
... that's sort of pointless to me. Bird calls, the buzz of cicadas and the sound of tropical storm-force winds growling through a neighborhood are wonderful, but not this.
... ah, crap. This useless article got my attention. I guess it worked, then. Dammit.
As someone who studies music, I'm fascinated by nature creating "music," but if it needs to be sped up to be heard, well
Find me some icebergs that are creating sound at audible frequencies, and then you might get my attention
geeze what a pose
[accoustic oil^H^H^Hearthquake monitoring station].. dit
"eh? what the hell is that, some sort of song?"
[trajectory to ice-berg, nuke sub #72 sneaks a peak..]
"alles klar! its an iceberg stuck in an ocean river... how pretty.."
kids, its science and poetry, wrapped up a bit. quite being so fascist about not seeing the whole picture all the time.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
This "singing" iceberg is just like a river "singing" or the ocean "singing", or the wind howling. Nothing more, nothing less.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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And of course, with most stories referencing odd videos or sounds (etc.) there is no sound sample provided with the story. :(
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when im chewing a piece of ice... in slow motion.
coincidence?
Wow it's amazingly: heej babaluba and she's my snowball.. :)
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