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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."
"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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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