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The deep sea broad spectrum sounds recorded in the summer of 1997, commonly refered to as "the Bloop", now appears to have had their origins tracked down. Much speculation about what could have generated these sounds have gone on for more than a decade, and NOAA scientists may or may not have...

greetings. Something has puzzled me for a long time, and perhaps some of you as well: I live far from the noises of human activity, and often listen to the cacophony of insect, bird, and amphibian sounds. When a cicada hatch happens, for instance, they normally cover a square-mile of forest...

Biowave Harmonic Subsonic plant growth enhancer Just got the latest edition of the Maximum Yield magazine (hydroponics industry magazine, kinda like the free music press of the hydroponics world) and noticed a particularly woo item as a new product, called the "Biowave". Here's the blurb from...

Back in the early 70's Quadraphonic sound was introduced and the system that sold the most records was the CBS SQ system. It was a phase-matrix where the rear channels were encoded via broadband 90 degree phase shifts. The performance was poor until Martin Willcocks invented the Directional...

I remember hearing a bunch of cases in which people when exposed to certain infrasonic frequencies ended up feeling sensatsions of abject terror, odd visual disturbances and such. I classify this as science related as this doesn't really belong in the religion forum. Either way... did these...

Hello everybody, Just a few questions that are on my mind. 1) If something is travelling faster than sound, is it correct to say that an observer towards whom the object is travelling will see it closing in in complete silence (barring any ambiant noise, of course)? If so, at which point...

I'm looking for a utility to let me capture the audio track from a DVD, preferably freeware or shareware. I just want to rip off sections of the audio for other uses. I've been doing it the "hard" way by digitizing the audio from the Line Out jacks on my computer's amplifier through a Microtrak...

I was playing my melodica recently, and it got me thinking. For those who don't know, it's basically a wind-powered (i.e. breath-powered) keyboard. As the name suggests, it's really for melodies, and is therefore most suited to single notes. If you play more than one note, the air is thus...

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/09/science-nervessound-20070309.html I do not claim to know anything about neuroscience, but wouldn't the fact that at least rudimentary machine/brain interfaces have been constructed using electrodes connected to a computer indicate contrary to this...

In the last few days my computer has started playing crackly static in the background whenever music is played. I've determined it is not the speakers, as the same thing occurs when plugging known good headphones into the line out jack. It occurs regardless of whether I'm playing a cd, streaming...

The Jesus and Mary DNA Awakening Test uses the electro-magnetic energies of sound to activate the spiritual energies of the “History DNA Gene” in the pineal gland of descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. This unique DNA Awakening Test combines recent discoveries of science with the wisdom...

... on my PC. If I play a video clip I get no sound. Also, when I try to play iTunes, nothing happens - that is, the track (or CD) doesn't run through the song. (It's as if it's on pause.) I go to: Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Device Properties And it tells me "No Audio Device"...

This question is currently plaguing me. I apologize if it has been covered before. Since we already know that when a master tape is digitized or a digital master created, how is that new releases that are remastered sound different? What has changed? If the CD's originally released were...

My main Linux box is an old P3 running Fedora Core 3. I mainly use it for coding and testing and so haven't worried too much about cleaning up some of the peripheral issues remaining from the installation. I did have some free time this morning, though, so I thought I'd at least try to get the...

This question is bothering me. If I transmit a sound wave through a medium, ie air, and it reaches a denser medium, ie water, what percentage is transmitted and what percentage is reflected.

eg most appear to believe that most Christians are militant fundies. This does not exactly display brilliant powers of deduction (or even a casual grasp of reality).

I've read the gospels off and on since my childhood, and Jesus just never impressed me as very intelligent. He suffers in comparison with ancient poets, philosophers, statesmen and historians, whose surviving writings often reveal shrewd insights into the human condition, derived from...

While Rolfe is exploring the moon illusion, let's have another. Are sounds really louder in fog- possibly transmitted more effciently maybe more quickly in saturated air? Or do they just seem louder because you are concentrating on hearing when visibility is reduced?

Had a discussion going in another thread that brought this subject up. I know nothing about what happens in a recording studio. I am interested in the technology behind recording and mixing the music that I buy. Is this typically done directly to digital now? Is it a well-known format, such...

... parted by the tsunami earthquake ..... as recorded by submarine microphones. Sound: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~tolstoy/research/tsun_eq.wav Researcher's site and article here: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~tolstoy/research/

I have recently discovered a fairly new (since October 2004) local radio program called Dimensions which is sort of an Art Bell Coast to Coast wannabe. Last week they had a really atrocious psychic, but I was unable to call in. Tomorrow night the guest is Major (retired) Paul Smith -- a...

Look here - unfortunately in Japanese (and some Czech): http://national.jp/product/conveni/battery/oxyride/lab/music/index.html Click on the two orchestras, and see the pie chart showing 83% of the members claim that the test portable CD players sounded better with the new batteries. This...

Yesterday the Seattle Times had an article about a proposed wind generation facilility in Nantucket Sound, including an interesting photo I wish I could share. (More on the photo is a sec.) For some background, here's a (biased) site that opposes the project. The gist of the newspaper article...

http://www.ctnow.com/news/health/hc-soundhealing.artjun21,1,7503684.story?coll=hc-headlines-custom-specials Was my email to the author any good? Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Christopher Arthur" Subject: Making Noise, Getting Well To: XXXXXXX@aol.com I understand...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=62&u=/ap/20040617/ap_on_re_us/emergency_warnings_1 " Emergency alerts for everything from tornadoes to missing children and terror warnings will get out to the public through an expanded weather radio network, the government...

A very cool concept, reported in the NYT and other places. This guy proposes the aural concomitant of the big bang. The sounds are embedded in the presentation found on hi web site here

This one time, at band camp.... our director had us do an exercise, the entire band would play a single note and we would all stop at the exact same time, then listen to the sound bounce off the back wall of the auditorium. We were told to listen for the different "groups" of instruments as it...

Story #1: Exxon may soon pass GE as world's biggest company - May 7 2004 Story#2: Exxon's Valdez Fines Still Unpaid - March 24, 2004 10 years later an not a dime. Simply another case of the two-tiered legal system that exsists in the US. One for the rich, one for the poor....sad.

If anyone wishes specifically to discuss our silent friends' inability to answer simple questions then could that discussion go here and leave the sister thread (http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39140) as a clean (and copyable) list?

I'd like to create this as a consolidated thread that will just list teh big glaring questions that have been met with silence by our homeopath apologists. I've been meaning to do this for a while to keep track of their deceptions. I'm going to create a side-thread...