Tuesday, January 24, 2012

What The Sky Sounds Like

I watched a video of loud sky noises. The National Weather Service said the cause of this sound is:

STRANGE SOUNDS BEING REPORTED ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND…

THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF VERY STRANGE SOUNDS FROM THE WOODVILLE AREA SINCE ABOUT 645 PM EST. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BELIEVES THIS PHENOMENON IS BEING CAUSED BY THUNDER FROM DISTANT LIGHTNING STROKES… BOUNCING OFF A VERY STABLE LAYER ABOVE THE GROUND. THIS IS CALLED DUCTING…AND CAN ALLOW SOUND TO TRAVEL UNUSUALLY LONG DISTANCES. THIS SOUND HAS BEEN MISTAKENLY ATTRIBUTED TO POSSIBLE TORNADOES…BUT WE AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT THERE ARE NO TORNADOES … AND NONE ARE EXPECTED.”

Then I saw this video which is the sound Earth makes as heard from space, with this caveat:

“So what you are hearing is not what it would be like if you just stuck an ear out the window of a space ship. First of all you would probably either die or go deaf in that ear for the rest of your life because of the pressure of the vacuum. What the remote sensors on the satellite are doing is analyzing different radio frequencies coming off the surface of the earth and converting it into audible sound waves for you and I to hear. So you’re not hearing whales, you’re not hearing cars or even wind. You’re merely hearing the general frequencies of the Earth in an audible format.”

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