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Things That Sound, Move, or Smell Like a Nuclear Explosion
- privong 12y agoIf you include "look", you can gamma ray bursts[0] to the list. As summarized in the wikipedia article, gamma ray bursts were originally discovered by the Vela satellites, which were looking for nuclear weapons tests in space. They discovered multiple bursts of gamma rays, coming from outside the solar system. Some of these bursts (the long ones, longer than about 2 seconds)) are now know to be associated with supernovae, while the origin of the short bursts is still uncertain. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst
- mattquiros 12y agoJust an observation: Is there a particular reason why the sheep are flocking around the infrasound detector? First picture.
- maxerickson 12y agoI would guess they are just being a flock of sheep. The map here: http://www.ctbto.org/map/ http://www.ctbto.org/map/ (fiddle with the controls on the right to get it to show monitoring stations) doesn't show an infrasound detector in Schauinsland. Oh, the flickr link says it isn't one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctbto/3817611688/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctbto/3817611688/ The photos there show the infrasound detectors as more than a nondescript shed.