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Earth's Constant Hum Explained
MattSparkes writes "It has been known for some time that there is a constant hum that emanates from the Earth, which can be heard near 10 millihertz on a seismometer. The problem was that nobody knew what caused it. It has now been shown that it is caused by waves on the bottom of the sea, and more specifically 'by the combination of two waves of the same frequency travelling in opposite directions.'"
Ohm-mani-padme-hum
When I'm in a quiet room I can often hear a quiet hum. It started after I went to an Arctic Monkeys concert...
Matthew Sparkes
I've always just assumed it was the Earth purring.
Nothing is impossible. We just haven't quite worked out how to do it yet.
The sound of the Earth meditating upon its naval should be a comfort to all of us.
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Spelling, its only fun it you can mess with it.
For the love of God, make it stop!
The opposite of progress is congress
So all this time I guess I should have put the tinfoil in my shoes.
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...as Douglas Adams might have said.
All this time, I just assumed it was because it couldn't remember the words.
Your article was very interesting, but it's wrong. I have a better idea. You see, the center of the earth is full of bees. They make the earth hum and the turtle stack keeps turning to find out what's buzzing. You see? Mine's a much better explaination: explains the humming and the rotation of the Earth!
Demented But Determined.
It is probably driving the whales crazy. They think it's the Voices...
Nothing witty
When I shutdown my PC. Turns out the bearing was on its way out.
Task Mangler
The Thetans?
Take off every 'sig' !!
They didn't say what causes the waves !
Everybody knows this is Great Cthulhu snoring in his sleep
Now please lose 2D6 sanity points
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
I always thought it was the Balrog humming.
These atheistic God-denying scientists attribute the constant hum detected by the seismometers to some random wave action at the ocean floors. But they ignore the fact that it violates the second law of thermodynamics (whatever it is). The real cause for the hum is the intelligent shaking by the Shaker. We demand equal time in all classrooms and seminars and conferences, wherever these surfologists congregate to rebut their theory (not fact) with our scientifically formulated real sceintific fact that intelligent shaking is the fundamental cause for all the hum on earth.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
If this humming is omnipresent, it means that every music is "sampling" it without authorization. We then sue RIAA out of existence for unlicensed sampling.
PROFIT!
Nobody's figured out how to ground the dang thing.
Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.
Read her post again, it wasn't a ground loop -- it was the motor. The live lead was erroneously connected to the outside of the windings. She swapped over the connections so the live was on the inside and the neutral was on the outside, thus shielding it.
Maybe the Earth just doesn't know the words.
You SO win the prize for 'AC reply that is most obviously by the original poster, ever'
A winner is you!
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
We're living inside an inter-galactic boy band.
Venus is the hot one and will turn out to be gay (natch, I mean Venus?)
Earth is the um, down-to-earth one - full of life.
Mars - the cold and distant one - always at war with the other members
Jupiter - slightly overweight - jolly
Saturn - Gaudy over-compensator wears lots of jewelry and rings - looks up to Jupiter
Hot headed Mercury - left in a huff to form his own band - his manager is the real star though.
Uranus was an asshole and left before fame came.
Neptune - always blue, committed suicide after what happened to Pluto...
Pluto? Well, Pluto was thrown out when it was discovered he never could sing.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
The Spongebob Squarepants cartoon was accurate all the time when it showed that there ARE beaches on the bottom of the ocean!!! We now know for sure that they have waves and everything. Who need Atlantis? If we could only find Bikini Bottom.
your going to be frustrated for a long time then.
You could try religeon, they have *all* the answers, so long as you don't actually ask any questions....
Bad gas. Those beans are AWFUL.
its a small world after all
MAKE IT STOP!!!
I visited disneyworld once. That damned song scarred me for life.
He/she wasn't really thinking about it in those terms when he/she quickly typed out a joke trying to score mod points!
Take off every 'sig' !!