This is actually sound coming from Saturn in the form of radio frequencies. It's creepy as shit.

People of Earth! Our nova cannon is aimed at the heart of the sun! You have one Earth year to surrender all your Brain Eno CDs to us, or your puny planet will be vapouried!

How does that actually work then? What's the science? I don't get it...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IXS0.01._PE25_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

He used these nasa recordings of planetary noise on this disc. Sounds cool, spaces you out!

And that equals sound? Or does it just equal frequencies which, if you choose to stick them through a speaker, can be heard as sound?

but ... but ... it sounds like the early human league!

Saturn emissions sound remarkably similar to the ending of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2GO3GcZwF0

I want that music. It came out on vinyl a couple of years ago in a tiny edition.

I want that music. It came out on vinyl a couple of years ago in a tiny edition.

You can find some of it here: http://ufoseries.com/music/index.html

Is that Barry Gray? If so, I have a bunch of mp3s of that stuff. Hit me up Ned.

BTW, totally ironic. When I listened to the original sound at the top of this thread, I thought it sounded like a mash-up of Barry Gray and the Louis & Bebe Barron Forbidden Planet soundtrack music.

It seems way too musical to be real. I like it.

icoming from Saturn in the form of radio frequencies
How does that actually work then? What's the science? I don't get it...

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:18 (4 years ago)

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And that equals sound? Or does it just equal frequencies which, if you choose to stick them through a speaker, can be heard as sound?

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:24 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

I don't know much about electromagnetism or how radio waves propagate themselves or anything, but I guess this all seems like a weird concept if you don't know that sound waves and radio waves are both composed of frequencies?* I'm not quite sure where the confusion is, I guess. The frequencies probably had to be pitch bent a number of octaves and brought into an audible range, but it doesn't really seem like such a preposterous concept to me.

Is there some reverb or delay over that recording, btw?

(*wait, but then again so is light, so I dunno? Hmmm!)

I would imagine the sound coming from Uranus would be creepy as shit as well. (surprised it took four years for some 10-year old joker like me to post that one, to be honest)

I think it's kind of soothing.

Saturn and Enceladus are linked by electromagnetic currents. Sounds available at: http://www.universetoday.com/85056/enceladus-and-saturn-are-linked-by-electromagnetic-currents/

The geysers and jets of Enceladus have just become more intriguing. A glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn’s north pole appears to be evidence of a magnetic connection between the planet and the icy, geyser-spewing moon. Data from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed that the jets of gas and icy grains that emanate from the south pole of Enceladus become electrically charged and form an ionosphere, and the motion of Enceladus and its ionosphere through a magnetic bubble that surrounds Saturn acts like a dynamo, setting up a newly-discovered electrical current system that links the moon to the planet.