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The Hundred Million Mile Pipe Organ
jd writes "Scientists have announced that the gigantic coils of plasma in the solar atmosphere, known as coronal loops, actually carry sound waves much like a pipe organ. Micro-flares on the surface of the sun create powerful blasts of charged particles, which are then guided through the coronal loops, creating the standing waves. Sheffield University is hosting movies and audio recordings of the sun's performance."
..."La la la, I'm going to heat up and cook that little blue planet, just for the hell of it, la la la...."
Table-ized A.I.
What does it sound like when God farts?
A perfect being would not fart, it seems to me. Farting is allegedly part of humanity's punishment for eating an apple without underwear on and talking dirty to a snake (er....something like that).
Table-ized A.I.
Let's hope that the RIAA does not hear about this or they will require the sun to be DRM'ed by Sony's fantastic systems.
That's what a certain Alaskan Senator called them.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Sounds better than creed.
God Be Gone
I'm not clicking on something called wang_mov.avi
God spoke to me.
So, 2001 space odyssey missed it as far as a score. It shoulda been phantom of the opera....
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The correct name is The University of Sheffield, not Sheffield University.
So that's what I've been hearing! And all this time I thought it was the North Star!
Here are some sounds of Jovian "radio storms":
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/radiojove
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/radiojove
And my favorite: a University of Washington professor used temperature variations in the cosmic background radiation to create the "sound of the Big Bang." This allows us to hear the first 760 thousand years of the universe. Of course the frequencies are boosted because the actual Big Bang frequencies are far too low to be heard by humans. Amazing stuff.
http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.htm
Gonna make me do this? Sigh...
"That's a big organ".
Saying your "phone ran out of batteries" is like saying your "car ran out of gas tanks".
It sounds like a drumroll Tito Puente might have done. It's about the right pitch for one of his timbales.
Although, it also kind of sounds like the signal being sent around on satellites in ID4.
So basically it's either a message from one of the greatest Latin drummers or aliens hell bent on destroying the earth. Have a nice weekend everyone!
There exists a wonderful collection of elecromagnetic waves made audible called "NASA space probe recordings" and "Symphonies of the Planets". The latter has five volumes total. They raised the frequencies of the voyager space craft recordings of the interplanetary magnetic and electric fields to audible range and released the resulting darkish ambient soundscapes.
... that this organ was also made by bloody stupid johnson
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The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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Any attempts at reverse engineering, however, will be rigorously pursued in court.
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