The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth 223
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."
Great (Score:5, Funny)
If anyone ever makes first contact with us, it will to complain about the noise. Not a good start.
I thought (Score:4, Funny)
Humming sound (Score:5, Funny)
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?
In other words... (Score:5, Funny)
Earth sounds like a 16 kbps MP3 encoding of /dev/random
Found it on Youtube (Score:4, Funny)
Here's a copy on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI [youtube.com]
Re:Great (Score:5, Funny)
[X] We're ALIENS! We dont HAVE ears, you ignorant clod!
It could be worse ... "You mean that wasn't the call to dinner? Well, we're hungry, and we've got this great book - How to serve Man."
To us... (Score:3, Funny)
...it's a scream. To the aliens, it's the siren's call of potential conquest.
It's as if... (Score:5, Funny)
...a million voices cried out at once...
It all depends on the encoding, doesn't it? (Score:5, Funny)
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.)
Re:Great (Score:5, Funny)
Complaint. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Right but that's (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Awful, ear-piercing reporting (Score:4, Funny)
I did that once, but I had to turn it off once it started playing the newest Brittany Spears hit.
Re:Great (Score:4, Funny)
Let's not be too hasty, the book "How to Serve Man" could be their title for the "Idiot's Guide to Being an Ood"
In addition... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Incomplete summary (Score:1, Funny)
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
Codecs?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It all depends on the encoding, doesn't it? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great (Score:4, Funny)
And due to an incidental wormhole, Ignoxtrix Umglalaut was released after George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby", and contains rifts and lyrics oddly similar to Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". So, the IGRIRAA can shove it down their six gullets into their four compartmented bowels until it rests where the Alpha Proxima doesn't shine.
I am so suing you for taking my novella and turning it into an AC /. post.
Bug-away (Score:1, Funny)
That's why aliens aren't visiting us in large numbers. We have a giant bug-away!
Re:Great (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great (Score:5, Funny)
Breakdancing aliens might make the movie worth not poking your eyes out
You didn't see Men in Black then?
Re:Found it on Youtube (Score:3, Funny)
Someone, prepare a defense, find us Yoko Ono!
Re:Great (Score:3, Funny)
Don't you mean 'Under Pressure', by Queen?