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Scientists Discover Singing Iceberg

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-can-it-carry-a-tune dept.

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."

7 of 32 comments (clear)

  1. The Hills Are Alive!....(with the sound of music) by yagu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. In Other news.. by bdigit · · Score: 5, Funny

    I farted and it sounded like a 50 cent song. Who the fuck cares?

  3. Yar? by dauthur · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  4. These researchers are in great danger ... by Louis+Guerin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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!

    L

  5. Link to the "song" :) by Walenzack · · Score: 5, Informative
    on a WAV file in this MSNBC article.

    --
    English is not my native language. Corrections are not only welcome but encouraged. Thanks.
    -Walenzack.
  6. Re:The Hills Are Alive!....(with the sound of musi by mike.newton · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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!

  7. France by dusik · · Score: 4, Funny

    "
    <Sabdo> on one of those speech-to-text programs my friend ripped ass onto the mic.
    <Sabdo> and it typed out "France"
    "