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The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth
onehitwonder writes "Astronomers have discovered that the Earth emits awful, ear-piercing chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, according to an article up at Space.com. The sounds are created by charged particles from the solar wind colliding with Earth's magnetic field. This article explains more about the sounds and links to an audio recording of it."
If anyone ever makes first contact with us, it will to complain about the noise. Not a good start.
that in space, no one can hear you whistle.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Our planet is also known to hum, a mysterious low-frequency sound thought to be caused by the churning ocean or the roiling atmosphere.
No, that's from our warp engines. How else do you move a planet around?
Earth sounds like a 16 kbps MP3 encoding of /dev/random
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Here's a copy on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
...it's a scream. To the aliens, it's the siren's call of potential conquest.
--I'm so big, my sig has its own sig.
-- See?
...a million voices cried out at once...
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
The emission could just as well be playing a Britney Spears song -- its just that the programmers at Kl'agnorf Multidimensional Muzzak borked their encoding routine.
(Unborking their encoding routine would probably cause an interstellar war, though, as the Intergalactic Association Of Recording Artists claims that Spears was clearly pirating Pu'oluk's Fuzzion album. And doing a poor job of it, which they privately concede they wouldn't have thought possible.)
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Dear Magrathea Customer Support,
it has come to our attention that the planet, namely the EARTH, which we purchased from you some millennia ago, may now be faulty. It appears to emit a high pitched screeching noise as it turns around its star. We are not sure at this point if it's perhaps an intermittent fault, however Benji can hear it every time he's out in his spaceship.
We understand that the planet is still covered by warranty, thus we would be grateful if you could send some engineers around to have a look at it. Mornings suit us best.
Kind regards
The Mice.
What kind of racist thinks Mexicans can't hear at all? I would think their incidence of deafness would be roughly the same as any other population.
I did that once, but I had to turn it off once it started playing the newest Brittany Spears hit.
Further baffling the astronomers, the sun appears to emit a deep, villainous laugh.
I wonder if anybody's got a model worked out yet to explain how a narrow planar beam gets generated.
Imagine a planet sized disco-ball.
god exists, and he's groovy :D
Nah man, its not really chirps and whistles, their just using the wrong codecs to listen to it... try using mplayer!!!
That's why aliens aren't visiting us in large numbers. We have a giant bug-away!