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accidentally stumbled upon this on youtube. The sounds of Jupiter are recorded by NASA and it actually sounds like a beautiful ambient song... I think it's pretty amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs

The sounds of the rings of Uranus are pretty amazing too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxEa5KdPFRw

Saturn (used to be my favourite planet but not so sure now ) sounds very very creepy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38pJhxCzR-I

I laughed out loud at the comment on the first video. "shut the fuck up jupiter" - honestly, sometimes the human psyche amazes and delights me. Humor is wonderful. (not being sarcastic - little things just amaze me is all)

Anyway yes, I have heard these, they are amazing and awesome. Space makes all KINDS of sounds. I can't wait til more recordings like this pop up on the internet - I want to hear quasars, black holes, supernovas, I wanna hear it all

And finally...

TheSilenceEchoes wrote:The sounds of the rings of Uranus are pretty amazing too

Didn't know you were into that, but I could put together some recordings for you...

AWESOME THREAD

Word. Good stuff!

I dont understand how space can make a sound.
I thought that there can be no sound traveling within a vaccume?

I havent actualy watched them yet, just about too...

lots of people are saying that in the comments of these vids. lots of people are also explaining that it's particles traveling through space, not actual sound. the patterns of those particles are being transcribed into audio by scientists.

turquoise70 wrote:lots of people are saying that in the comments of these vids. lots of people are also explaining that it's particles traveling through space, not actual sound. the patterns of those particles are being transcribed into audio by scientists.

woah, thats pretty cool. I wonder how they measure the particle count, and also what sort of timeframe these recordings were taken over. The probably had to be sped up loads, to put it in the audio range. I'll perhaps do some googling and try to find some concrete answers about this.

turquoise70 wrote:lots of people are saying that in the comments of these vids. lots of people are also explaining that it's particles traveling through space, not actual sound. the patterns of those particles are being transcribed into audio by scientists.

Yeah, this. Plus with the amount of energy and particles out there i'm sure there's an atmosphere whether it consists of radiation or not of SOME kind within a certain distance. Though super subtle and obviously amplified by supersensative devices.

This is great stuff, really amazing. Jupiter is beautiful. Knowing it comes from Jupiter and thinking of it singing so many MANY miles away from earth gives me a special feeling... it's like it's singing to anything that has ears or instruments that can hear it.

NASA wrote:Soaring to the depths of our universe, gallant spacecraft roam the cosmos, snapping images of celestial wonders. Some spacecraft have instruments capable of capturing radio emissions. When scientists convert these to sound waves, the results are eerie to hear.

Actualy according to the description in the youtube videos this apears to perhaps not to be the same thing from what i've quoted. Crazy stuff though, Jupiter is totaly great.

It's electromagnetic waves converted into audio. You can convert anything into audio. I'm reminded of old school tracking programs that had the ability to convert virtually any kind of computer file into audio. My friends and I used to write giant text documents just to drag them into Impulse Tracker and convert them into what were referred to as "text synths". I also did this with .bmp images. Funny thing, the wave form view would depict the image as if it were sitting on its side, with the brighter colors rising higher than the darker ones. Of course, Aphex Twin also utilized something similar in a couple of his compositions.

I like the sounds of this Jupiter a lot better

Yeah, importing files as Raw Data in Audacity can yield interesting results word of advice::: Don't import the entire game of Crysis. It took 2 hours and was all white noise the entire time besides this brief moment where it started bubbling and crackling.

Spenner wrote:Yeah, importing files as Raw Data in Audacity can yield interesting results word of advice::: Don't import the entire game of Crysis. It took 2 hours and was all white noise the entire time besides this brief moment where it started bubbling and crackling.

my god, i never thought of this

time to write letters to everyone i'm angry at and make a song out of it

Waterbagel wrote:

Spenner wrote:Yeah, importing files as Raw Data in Audacity can yield interesting results word of advice::: Don't import the entire game of Crysis. It took 2 hours and was all white noise the entire time besides this brief moment where it started bubbling and crackling.

my god, i never thought of this

time to write letters to everyone i'm angry at and make a song out of it

lol, excellent!

turquoise70 wrote:

TheSilenceEchoes wrote:The sounds of the rings of Uranus are pretty amazing too

Didn't know you were into that, but I could put together some recordings for you...

Almost lost it. Good one.

Ok that just blew my mind. Some of the most beautiful drone ambient I've ever heard. Definitely gonna get those CD's.

wow.. that sounds absolutely beautiful Space is one of the most fascinating things in the world to me, I always want to learn more about it. I really hope space exploration becomes a reality in our life time.

And the Infinite, I don't think there's anything crazier than the Infinite, I'm always amazed by the fact that I can't even imagine it.

I did try though.

The909Virus wrote:wow.. that sounds absolutely beautiful Space is one of the most fascinating things in the world to me, I always want to learn more about it. I really hope space exploration becomes a reality in our life time.

space exploration, while fantastic sounding, is a little.. impractical.

it's best (and vastly cheaper/safer) to observe from our own little blue mote of dust, and innovating better ways to observe and theorize about the workings of our universe.

Waterbagel wrote:

The909Virus wrote:wow.. that sounds absolutely beautiful Space is one of the most fascinating things in the world to me, I always want to learn more about it. I really hope space exploration becomes a reality in our life time.

space exploration, while fantastic sounding, is a little.. impractical.

it's best (and vastly cheaper/safer) to observe from our own little blue mote of dust, and innovating better ways to observe and theorize about the workings of our universe.

I saw Thor last Friday, and in it, a small team of freelance scientists are looking for an Einstien-Rosen Bridge (wormhole). Well, one is there, and it connects our planet to the planet where the Thor mythology originated from. The same week that Thor came out...

http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... ound-earth

this was announced. Who knows what's right down the road.