The Hundred Million Mile Pipe Organ

jd writes "Scientists have announced that the gigantic coils of plasma in the solar atmosphere, known as coronal loops, actually carry sound waves much like a pipe organ. Micro-flares on the surface of the sun create powerful blasts of charged particles, which are then guided through the coronal loops, creating the standing waves. Sheffield University is hosting movies and audio recordings of the sun's performance."

Re:Mummy

[Tablizer]

What does it sound like when God farts?

A perfect being would not fart, it seems to me. Farting is allegedly part of humanity's punishment for eating an apple without underwear on and talking dirty to a snake (er....something like that).
     

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[Anonymous Coward]

A perfect being would not fart, it seems to me. Farting is allegedly part of humanity's punishment for eating an apple without underwear on and talking dirty to a snake

Bets?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj1KGZSFmfs [youtube.com]

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[Bertie]

If there is a God, farting is absolute proof that He has a sense of humour.

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[Dunbal]

Assuming there IS a god in the first place.

Well? One good troll deserves another...

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[BakaHoushi]

Personally, I'm not religious... at all... but I like to sum up life as this:
Even God has to shit sometimes, and just hope you're not standing under Him.

I translated the song and it says...

[Tablizer]

..."La la la, I'm going to heat up and cook that little blue planet, just for the hell of it, la la la...."

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[number1scatterbrain]

La, La, La, that little blue planet is heating up and cooking itself, La, La, La...

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[ScrewMaster]

La, La, La, that little blue planet is heating up and cooking itself, La, La, La...

I can see how you got your nickname.

I dunno ... I thought both of you were pretty funny. One of the most oblique references to global warming I've ever heard.

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[number1scatterbrain]

Let me guess. You gave yourself your nickname.

Now you have really done it.

[Bender Unit 22]

Let's hope that the RIAA does not hear about this or they will require the sun to be DRM'ed by Sony's fantastic systems.

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[The_Wilschon]

Ye gods, no! A rootkit on the sun? The botnet turf wars we have now are bad enough, but when one of the nets takes over the rooted sun, we'll all be cooked!

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[TuringTest]

I wouldn't mind if ALL rootkit & DRM devices were thrown into the sun...

Re:Now you have really done it.

[Hotawa Hawk-eye]

No, tell the RIAA. They'll send their technicians to the sun to install DRM, and when their technicians come back radiation-blasted to report that they failed, they'll send in the lawyers. Two for one deal!

Re:Now you have really done it.

[Dolphinzilla]

it will be OK - they said they are going to go there at night...

"A series of tubes"

[davidwr]

That's what a certain Alaskan Senator called them.

not bad

[kbox]

Sounds better than creed.

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[fractalVisionz]

Sounds better than creed.

Indeed. However, it actually sounds like a pulse jet engine [wikipedia.org], here is a video [youtube.com].

I'm sorry.

[CrazyJim1]

I'm not clicking on something called wang_mov.avi

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[CrazyJim1]

Ok, downloaded Quicktime so I could get these files. I think it's pretty cool that there is sound in space. Maybe you could even hear a Tie Fighter as it roars past you.

Re:I'm sorry.

[smoker2]

I'm not clicking on something called wang_mov.avi again !

There, fixed that for ya ;)

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[MarkRose]

It's people like you that killed Wang [wikipedia.org].

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[stonefry]

What about limb-eruption.mpeg

poto....

[Himring]

So, 2001 space odyssey missed it as far as a score. It shoulda been phantom of the opera....

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[weeboo0104]

Nope, 2001 had it right. The opening from "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss (used in "2001 - A space odyssey" calls for a pipe organ in the orchesteral score.

University of Sheffield

[sdaug]

The correct name is The University of Sheffield, not Sheffield University.

move along

[P3NIS_CLEAVER]

...nothing to see here. This is no replacement for a Tool concert.

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[ptbob]

It's not a replacement, it's the light show!

Ah Ha!

[gethor]

So that's what I've been hearing! And all this time I thought it was the North Star!

Other sounds of the universe

[RichPowers]

Here are some sounds of Jovian "radio storms":

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/radiojove_ sbursts.htm [nasa.gov]
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/radiojove_ lbursts.htm [nasa.gov]

And my favorite: a University of Washington professor used temperature variations in the cosmic background radiation to create the "sound of the Big Bang." This allows us to hear the first 760 thousand years of the universe. Of course the frequencies are boosted because the actual Big Bang frequencies are far too low to be heard by humans. Amazing stuff.

http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.html [washington.edu]

Nobody?

[proxy318]

Gonna make me do this? Sigh...

"That's a big organ".

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[number1scatterbrain]

You say that to all the boys, don't you, Paris?

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[speculatrix]

oblig star wars quote... "look at the size of that thing".

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[rts008]

Is that a 'Hundred Million Mile Pipe Organ' in yer pocket, or are ya just glad to see me?

I think it's Tito Puente or the ID4 aliens...

[trimbo]

It sounds like a drumroll Tito Puente [wikipedia.org] might have done. It's about the right pitch for one of his timbales.

Although, it also kind of sounds like the signal being sent around on satellites in ID4 [imdb.com].

So basically it's either a message from one of the greatest Latin drummers or aliens hell bent on destroying the earth. Have a nice weekend everyone!

I hate to nit pick, but..

[DigitAl56K]

.. AU audio files, MOV video files, and AVI files using a legacy video compressor Microsoft doesn't even ship any more?

I'm sure the research is great. I'll pass until you make it presentable.

Try http://www.drdivx.com/ [drdivx.com] and http://www.mp3dev.org/ [mp3dev.org] .

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[NeuroManson]

Or I could just sum it up for you, and save you from having to install anything at all:
"OooooOOOooooOooOoooooOOOOOooOOOooooOOOoOoOoooooOO OOooOooOooooooOoOooooOOOoOOooOooOOoOoOooOo"

Any attempts at reverse engineering, however, will be rigorously pursued in court.

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[chazchaz101]

These files are probably the native output of the software/equipment they're using.

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[Petrushka]

What's the big deal? You have the permissions and can take the trouble to install the enormously bloated DivX package, but not VLC, which will happily deal with pretty much anything? Sorry, but it sounds like it takes very little to irk you.

space sound recordings

[jovius]

There exists a wonderful collection of elecromagnetic waves made audible called "NASA space probe recordings" and "Symphonies of the Planets". The latter has five volumes total. They raised the frequencies of the voyager space craft recordings of the interplanetary magnetic and electric fields to audible range and released the resulting darkish ambient soundscapes.

Vindication!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah! So sound can travel in space! Take that, sci-fi nerds!

i bet...

[dunkelfalke]

... that this organ was also made by bloody stupid johnson [wikipedia.org]

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[MightyMartian]

From the article, the loops are up to 100 million km. 100 million km 100 million miles. So the tile is a bit exaggerated. Mistakes like this lead to problems with Mars probes...

And imagine what happens with the anal ones!

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[azenpunk]

i always thought they should have renamed that probe to "mars excavator" posthumously

My sun...

[Brad1138]

Plays the pipe organ at Milky Way U

That's Bach!

[Anonymous Coward]

Playing his organ in heaven. 3

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[rabidGoat]

More evidence that Donald Knuth http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.ht ml [stanford.edu] was made a little more in God's image than the rest of us.

Solar pipe organ

[proto opus]

Moody Blues, for the win.

Not to rain on their parade but...

[loourker]

I hate to say this, but it really sounds like a noisy power supply. I mean it sounds like harmonics of 60 cycles.

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[Petrushka]

Well, I'd venture a guess that it's not being played at the native sample rate ...

Hey! Play it backwards, it says...

[mnemotronic]

Play the .au files backwards, and you distinctly hear "Turn me in, Glickman". An obvious reference to our glorious leader, MPAA pres. Dan "I'd love to turn you on to your new cell-mate" Glickman.

Sunn O))) has nothing on this.

[BeneathTheVeil]

Wow, that right there is some true droning doom. ...and no, I don't expect any slashdotters to get the reference.

The Song Stays The Same...

[JumperCables233]

Can you imagine the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" with a hundred million mile pipe organ! Sweet!!!