Eerie Sounds from Saturn 217
Mick Ohrberg writes "Scientists at NASA have now heard proof (called 'Saturn kilometric radiation') that Saturn has a phenomenon similar to the earths' Northern Lights (aurora borealis). Talking about the eerie sounding noise, Dr. Bill Kurth with the University of Iowa, says "We believe that the changing frequencies are related to tiny radio sources moving up and down along Saturn's magnetic field lines."
It couldn't sound any spookier if they added a Theremin."
Just Because... (Score:5, Funny)
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"exactly a million to one, with any luck..."
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We prefer the term Saturnian, you insensitive clod!
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Hoax (Score:4, Funny)
I am supprised we did not hear Robbie the Robot ask if we need something!
Re:Just Because... (Score:2)
Useless comparisons like this can perhaps enlighten a scientoist but hardly arouse the interest of common earthlings.
Anyways we can barely see beyond ourselves, can we now?
It's their defence system (Score:2, Funny)
Re:all these worlds... (Score:2)
Wahhh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wahhh (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wahhh (Score:4, Interesting)
Question: at what level of vacuum does sound cease to propagate? I imagine "cease to propagate" might be subjective? Or perhaps there's a definite line like "when the mean free path of the gas molecules is large compared to the chamber dimensions" (a gas molecule hits the wall more often than it hits another gas molecule) (as in turbopumps, is that even correct?)... though what that would mean in outer space isn't clear to me.
Re:Wahhh (Score:3, Interesting)
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This is just WAY cool (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:This is just WAY cool (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:This is just WAY cool (Score:2)
Re:This is just WAY cool (Score:2)
Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! Expressing your personal feelings on /. only invites ridicule and bad joke references. In this case I understand your excitement because those sounds must remind you so much of your travels to all those far strange planets in the 1950s when you were a kid with your family and that creepy Dr. Smith.
Re:This is just WAY cool (Score:2)
Ah. Whistlers, etc. (Score:5, Informative)
The "dawn chorus" (not recorded by me!) can be found here: ahref=http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/sounds/so
Fixed Link (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Ah. Whistlers, etc. (Score:4, Informative)
I found here [uiowa.edu] a sample of AKR emission from earth's magnetosphere. This sample has a higher frequency shift than the one from the first link in the fine article, but also I think they are similar, in both cases structures that oscilates with high to low-frequencies, and then high again, can be heard (that, or I need new earphones :)
Maybe you would like to compare the spectrograms:
Earth's AKR [uiowa.edu] emission.
Saturn's AKR [uiowa.edu] emission.
Also, one of the samples [uiowa.edu] from cassini is very similar (IMO) to this [uiowa.edu] sample of a chorus emission at earth's magnetosphere (more info here [uiowa.edu], in the sense that there are some structures rising from low to high-frequency.
Sadly, the spectrogram [uiowa.edu] is not so clear, like the one from cassini [uiowa.edu]
Very interesting stuff. Yes, I did some work in that area. No, I am not a space physicist. And finally, yes, I have this [uiowa.edu] page in my bookmarks.
Re:Ah. Whistlers, etc. (Score:2)
Nifty (Score:1)
Forbidden planet (Score:5, Interesting)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0049223/ [imdb.com]
"Pardon me. I was... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Forbidden planet (Score:2)
"And that was Rings of Dust by Azuza Maklar and the Merangins. A lovely tune written in the 29403.425's. We're going to take a short commercial break right now, but please stay with us for a long evening of soothing klakbar instrumentals on WSAT."
Re:Forbidden planet (Score:2, Interesting)
MORBIUS: "Gentlemen, that was recorded by Krell musicians over 2000 centuries ago."
Re:Forbidden planet (Score:2)
Interesting comparison. Louis and Bebe Barron [wikipedia.org] were the first to create a completely electronic film score, for Forbidden Planet. According to a piece I heard on NPR (text overview and audio here [npr.org]), the sounds created were truly one-of-a-kind. So much so, that they could only *be* created once -- one way of generating a distinct sound was to build an electronic device that was designed to overload itself, with the eerie sounds genera
Eerie recordings (Score:3, Funny)
Geez! (Score:5, Funny)
If NASA gets slashdotted... (Score:2)
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I seem to vaguely remember an old sci fi B movie called "The Sirens of Saturn".
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Turn the lights out and make sure this is the last thing you listen to before you go to bed!
Sweet Dreams!
Alert the MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
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Just Great... (Score:3, Funny)
No wonder its eerie... (Score:5, Informative)
If you compressed the time of my voice down about 22 times and shifted its frequency down by a factor of 44, I think I would sound eerie as well!
Then again... you might not need to shift my voice to make it sound eerie...
NeoThermic
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Re:No wonder its eerie... (Score:4, Funny)
That, sir, is why you lie.
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In Soviet Russia, old unfunny jokes post YOU!
Okay, I could't resist. You may flame me now.
Re:No wonder its eerie... (Score:4, Funny)
So you're the one that keeps calling me at 1:00AM! You're gonna get it, buddy. *shakes fist*
INSPIRE (Score:5, Informative)
News? (Score:5, Funny)
Aha! (Score:4, Funny)
Usually the erie sounds... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Usually the erie sounds... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah - but only if said probe is immediately preceded by a finger pulling probe.
Vader likes what he hears (Score:2)
I hear that Darth Vader desperatly wants to replace his Crazy Frog ringtone with this sound. Apparently he didn't have to think too long about it. After all, It's far more suitable for a Dark Lord.
I'm sure Jamster will find a way to ruin it though with Axel F over the top or something...
Theremins are not obsolete! (Score:5, Informative)
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One interesting snippet:
After rave reviews at Moscow electronics conferences, Theremin demonstrated the device to Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin personally. Lenin was so impressed with the device that he began taking lessons in playing it, commissioned 600 of the instruments for distribution throughout the Soviet Union, and sent Theremin on a trip around the world to demonstrate the latest Soviet technology and the invention of electronic music.
Yeah, right... (Score:5, Funny)
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Obsolete.com (Score:2)
This sounds like the Forbidden Planet Soundtrack (Score:2)
Well, I know what I'm playing out my darkened windows to Trick-or-Treaters come Halloween!
brains......BRAINS! (Score:1)
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BRAINS!
When do we want them?
BRAINS
Romero's one from the 60's was better. Then there's the Return of the Living Dead flicks. (no forget I said that)
Another recording (Score:2, Interesting)
http://cassini.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/cass
They're coming... (Score:2)
Heh. Just kidding. They've been here for years already.
Eerie sounds from Earth! (Score:2)
Cool, but by no means new (Score:2)
ITS AN ALARM CLOCK ON SATAUN' (Score:3, Funny)
from the woooooooooo-woooooooooooo dept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubb_Rubb/ [wikipedia.org]
Yous asposed to be awake on sataun' when the aurora comes.
50's B Sci-Fi movies were RIGHT after all! (Score:3, Funny)
It's bringing back some great memories of watching bad 50's sci-fi movies as a kid.
For some reason I keep picturing a fat gorilla-suited space alien in a diving helmet... [amazon.com].
Oh no... I've played it too many times... I've alerted the terrible space aliens that have been monitoring our airwaves!
Everybody run! Save your selves! Save your wives!
Theme Music... (Score:2)
Is it just me... (Score:2)
Not saying "it's jesus!!!", but to me it seems to be looking left (its right) with its mouth open at the bottom around 6:40.
Kinda freaky to me (besides the audio).
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You can get strange sounds from almost any data (Score:3, Interesting)
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So neither the frequencies, nor the rate of tonal change is accurate.
Re:You can get strange sounds from almost any data (Score:2)
The ear is very good at doing an audio-range FFT
****NEWS HEADLINE**** (Score:2, Funny)
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In an apparent effort to win over their "Fellow Americans," NASA hired Hollywood dream killer Wes Craven to create sound bites to scare the raggity ends off of every internet surfers' eyelashes.
Saturn in 2001 (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Saturn in 2001 (Score:5, Insightful)
Arthur C. Clarke actually retained Saturn as the destination in the novel (not a 'novelisation'; it was written concurrently in order to help develop the film). The novel also varies in several other areas; notably the "pod bay doors" scene in the film is handled differently, albeit to the same ends. The 'stargate' is also different.
The difference is as much one of tone and style, however. The novel is more ACC "factual" and explains things in a way the film never tries to.
Having seen the film some 6 years after first reading the book, I made what (in retrospect) I consider the mistake of treating them as the same thing in different form. At first, I saw the film as being similar to the book, but with less explanation; now I realise that at a deeper level the philosophy and approach of the book and film are fundamentally different, and to get the most out of the film, it's necessary to consider it on its own merits.
That's not to say I prefer the film; in some ways, I think it's overrated and pretentious (having initially given it an unconsidered free ride on my "favourites" list on the back of my liking of the novel, I realised that on its own merits I wasn't that keen on it).
The odd thing is the sequel, 2010. The novel of 2010 (which the 2010 film was based on) was an engrossing and natural sequel to the 2001 novel. This despite the fact it took the location of the action from the 2001 film (Jupiter) not the 2001 novel (Saturn); in terms of its logical style, and the quote "Oh my God... It's full of stars", it follows on from the novel, not the film.
The film 2010, which came later, perversely borrowed the "Oh my God" line from the novels (it never appeared in the original film), and the factual approach which worked in the novel combined with overly commercial sensibilities and a cheesey (and now very dated) cold-war subplot made the film less than brilliant and not a very naturalistic "sequel" to the first film.
At one stage I thought 2010 was a good film on its own merits (that is, if you hadn't seen 2001); although you need to know what happened in 2001 to get the most out of it, you could read the novel of it, so this isn't as stupid as it sounds.
My opinion of it has gone down somewhat, not because it ruins everything in 2001 by explaining it (2010:The Film is really the film of THE NOVEL of 2010; which was a sequel to THE NOVEL of 2001; it makes more sense that way than considering it as a simple sequel to the 2001 film). No, the problems I have with 2010 are:-
(a) Cheesy cold-war subplot (okay, ACC wrote this for the novel, but the sentimental aspects are ramped up in the film)....
(b) Hollywood Sentimentality (oh yeah, already mentioned that); not so much because it contrasts with the 2001 film's approach, but because it's formulaic
(c) Too much a straightforward sci-fi film; hasn't *tried* to do anything as original as Kubrick.
(d)
(e) Didn't they have sound in space in 2010? Yuk!
Oof. Sorry (Score:2, Funny)
Already heard it (Score:2)
Wow score one for the 1950's science fiction audio producers.
Space Mountain (Score:2)
The whistles go WOOO (Score:2, Redundant)
Mystery solved!
It's Bubb Rub & Lil' Sis [whoomp.com] checking out their latest dec-o-rashuns.
Voice of Saturn (Score:2)
Fun stuff!
Is this legal? (Score:2, Funny)
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It sounds even weirder because they used (Score:2, Interesting)
As a near record breaking whistler (Score:2)
When I whistle with someone at the same capacity, we can fluxuate the tones in a controlled manner, and the heterodyning sounds (imagine the sound you sometimes hear when tuning into LW radio - wooowhipduuuublebleble) are very loud, and feel like mini pick axes trying to hollow out your head.
I think it works fairly easily if two people whistle normally next to each other if they can hold a good tone.
To conf
Sound? (Score:2, Insightful)
Man, that ruins the whole ring it. ^_^
Ho ho hooooo (Score:2)
Don't you hear it? As if to say "I hurt", "I suffer".
Kirk & crew in 1986? (Score:2)
The Theremin - ultimate geek instrument (Score:2, Informative)
Some audio clips: Star Trek Intro [thereminvox.com], Sinners [thereminvox.com], Space Cruiser Yamato/Star Blazers [thereminvox.com], Heterodyne [thereminvox.com] (Commodore64 style!), Rotors of Raga [thereminvox.com] (entire archive [thereminvox.com])
You too can build your own Theremin [thereminworld.com]. For the less tech savvy, yo
See proof from 1998 (Score:2)
The sound is coming from Saturn? (Score:2, Funny)
Rush 2112? (Score:2)
Or is everyone else singing in their head "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"?
Everyone's is Missing the Obvious - This is HELL (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Everyone's is Missing the Obvious - This is HEL (Score:2, Funny)
Klaus Schulze was right! :-) (Score:2)
Just kidding, but it's still pretty damn fascinating.
The echoing sound... (Score:2, Interesting)
Or did the scientists throw in an echo effect? That would certainly ke