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The ‘Bloop’ mystery solved
- parfe 14y agoA lot of the wild speculation regarding the bloop stemmed from the ultra low frequency audio being sped up 16x to be audible to the human ear.
- mertd 14y agoI was more fascinated by the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCw16_Yxid0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCw16_Yxid0). Interesting part starts at 45s.
- __david__ 14y agoMost of that sound is caused by artifacts of slowing the bloop down but keeping it in audible frequencies. Here's a more realistic version of the sound and a rationale of how it was made (needs a sub-woofer or some decent headphones to actually hear it): http://porkrind.org/missives/the-bloop/ http://porkrind.org/missives/the-bloop/
- andrewcooke 14y agohuh. thanks. so i guess this is obvious, given the context, but that sounds like an earthquake (a decent sized one) feels, if you see what i mean... (also, you can hear it with decent speakers - no sub-woofer. it's audible with BW 602s (large monitors) for example)
- eshvk 14y agoI confess to be slightly disappointed at this. Although there was speculation that this was indeed iceberg related, there was also speculation that possibly a living creature could be the source of this. Sad to say this but it appears that the age of discovering large animals is long past us.
- swordswinger12 14y agoDon't be so sure - the first pictures of a live giant squid are only around a decade old. The ocean is deep and dark.
- ZanderEarth32 14y agoVery true. Apparently we've only explored 5%, leaving 95% for a giant something to be living. It would be a sad day to realize there is nothing left to be discovered. Even at an older age I still find it fascinating and exciting to think there is something unknown, mystical and possibly magical in this world. [1]http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html
- lifeformed 14y agoWell, there's always more space to discover.
- charonn0 14y agoimagine the mysterious compression waves we'll find out there :)
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- whatshisface 14y agoGravity waves?
- charonn0 14y agoMaybe. Plus waves so strange that we haven't invented a word for them yet. Space is big and weird; we'll never be bored!
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- dhughes 14y agoFor some reason that reminded me of the climatic (pun?) scene where the bad guys' undersea under ice lair blows up and the ice falls down to the ocean floor facepalm
- ohashi 14y agoAh, you watched GI Joe too.
- pyre 14y agoWell, the base was man-made, who says that the ice wasn't? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water ;-)
- skrebbel 14y agoThat must've been one of the best scenes I've seen in a movie. Or, well, until Battleship.
- marknutter 14y agoIt's never a giant squid <kicks the dirt>
- cyanbane 14y agoI don't believe it was anything crazy and that I believe that there is probably a common answer for what this was, but I am amazed at the HN comments so far that take this post for certification of an idea.
- gosub 14y agoI semi-seriously think then someone got the idea for the 'solution' from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cRyd4LpJo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cRyd4LpJo
- atlantic 14y agoMy theory is, it was a weather balloon.