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."

Comments

The Hills Are Alive!....(with the sound of music)

[yagu]

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:

The tune even goes up and down, just like a real song

Methinks the author may be confusing Britney Spears, et. al., with purveyors of music.

Yar?

[dauthur]

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.