Move Over Nessie, Here Comes Bloop

great throwdini writes "CNN is carrying news (published in this week's New Scientist) that scientists have revealed the existence of a recording that may point to the presence of an unknown biological ocean-dweller nicknamed 'Bloop.' Some suggest a "sea monster" (possibly a giant squid) may be responsible for creating the ruckus. Slashdotters have commented on the discovery of giant squid and octopi in the past, so maybe the idea of a deep-sea monster isn't so far-fetched?"

Naturally!

[Peter Trepan]

Evidence: Loud bloop! sound coming from the ocean.

Conclusion: Monster squid.

Personally, I think it is the sound of a journalist's brain rolling out of his head, and over the side of the boat.

Re: Naturally!

[Black Parrot]

> Evidence: Loud bloop! sound coming from the ocean.

> Conclusion: Monster squid.

Null Hypothesis: Whale fart.

the 2-minute offense

[realgone]

Hmmm... You replied 14 minutes after the /. article went up and, let's be honest, your post didn't take all that long to type. So I'm sure you had at least 12 whole minutes of free time to actually read the article in question, right?

Which means you probably saw that (A) the by-line wasn't "Geraldo Rivera", and (B) the theory of biological origin was put forth, not by the reporter, but various marine scientists and researchers who saw certain tell-tale characteristics in the sound signature.

Its CowboyNeal

[Unknown Poltroon]

I told him not to go swimming after eating them baked beans.

What the mics would have heard...

[dankow]

...if they were just a little more sensitive:

"Psst... Hey Flipper! I'll give you ten clams to squeak right into that microphone over there!"

Hear the Bloop

[Jodrell]

here's a link [noaa.gov] to a wave file of Bloop, sped up 16 times. Fark [fark.com] had this earlier today.

Re:Hear the Bloop

[eggstasy]

If you "fix" the sound, by slowing it down those same 16 times and increasing the volume (it is inaudible after the stretching), it is actually a very interesting sound.Frightening, really.It's a popcorn-meets-earthquake kind of sound.
Hope you have a good subwoofer, this is very low frequency stuff. If anyone cares to get [netfirms.com] the "fixed" wav its about 2.5 mb, or just 1 compressed with RAR. No mp3 sorry, it totally mangled the sound when i tried it.

Re:Hear the Bloop

[texchanchan]

NOAA has a bunch of mysterious sounds [noaa.gov], each scarier than the next. Try "Julia [noaa.gov]" or "Slowdown [noaa.gov]" on for size, but not if you're by yourself in the dark thinking about what lives on this planet that we don't know about.

It's pretty obvious to me

[nosferatu-man]

Huge aquatic beast? Never before encountered? Stirring at a time when nuclear trouble is in the air?

Duh. It's clearly Godzilla.

'j

No...No..."...many tentacled..."

[defeated]

Godzilla...or Cthulhu?

Re:No...No..."...many tentacled..."

[nosferatu-man]

Yikes. Either way, we're fucked.

'jfb

not everyone

[blablablastuff]

if it's Godzilla, only the Japanese are fucked.

Re:It's pretty obvious to me

[alacqua]

Actually, its Mozilla.

Re:It's pretty obvious to me

[tm2b]

Nah.

It's just Sigmund [tvshowsondvd.com].

Re:It's pretty obvious to me

[Brandeissansoo]

Someone get the tiny mothera twins to start singing!

They call him Bloop

[vidnet]

To make sure we don't start labelling Bloop as a monster and hunt him down, here's his new theme song to underline size, loudness and independence :)

They call him Bloop, Bloop, bigger than whales
no-one you see, is louder than he,
and we know Bloop, lives in a world of choice,
making loud bloop noise, under the sea!

This is my .sigh...

That's amazing?

[Eagle7]

Huh... sounded like a rock plunking into water to me.

I guess I question how they justify thinking it was an animal, and not just some gas escaping from a sac of some sort (rock, vegetation, rotting marine life?)

Ovisouly I am no marine scientist, but it seems that something that sounds like air escaping in water could have a lot more origins than just a "sea monster".

Re:That's amazing?

[Dr. Manhattan]

I guess I question how they justify thinking it was an animal...

Well, they heard it repeatedly, not just once. And the frequency characteristics resemble those of other animal sounds.

Move over "Bloop", here comes "Thelma"

[subbie]

Strangely enough, the BBC is reporting [bbc.co.uk] that a team of Swedish scientists has discovered evidence of an unidentified monster like Scotland's legendary "Nessie" in a lake in south-eastern Norway. The "Roemsjoen monster" is similar to another Norwegian deep sea creature, affectionately known as Thelma. What is this deep sea world coming too??

What is this deep sea world coming too??

[blablablastuff]

It's coming to eat us, of course.

Listen at the Real Speed!

[still_sick]

Yes, the sound file as posted sounds like a boring water bubble; but keep in mind that they sped it up 16 times normal speed. Try slowing it down (Window's Sound Recorder will do this, for anyone running a win-box looking for an easy solution). Even at 4x slower (4x faster than it's natural speed) it starts to sound like "something", but gets extremely hard to hear. Turn your volume and bass way up. It's actually pretty cool. I envy anyone who's got the Sub that can hear it at normal speed. Is it a "Monster"? Maybe, probably not. But it doesn't sound like a water bubble at normal speed.

Notes from a marine biologist

[MajorGoddess]

My most-excellent friend Sara made a few observations about squid. Namely, that contrary to the CNN.com article, squid != octopus and that using the word multi-tentacled (as opposed to all those tentacle-less species of squid out there)to describe one does little but make the Hentai perves on your mailing list perk up.

Bloop

[PegQuin]

These are Earth farts. We've been giving our dear mother some pretty severe "gastrointestinal" grief lately.