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Earth Keeps Pulsating Every 26 Seconds. No One Knows Why.
Popular Mechanics ^ | 10/30/2020 | CAROLINE DELBERT

Posted on 11/04/2020 10:57:01 PM PST by Viking2002

Why is Earth pulsating every 26 seconds, and why can’t scientists explain it after 60 years? This is an enigma wrapped in a periodically predictable mystery motion. It could be a harmonic phenomenon, a regular seismic chirp caused by the sun’s energy, or a beacon drawing scientists to its source to begin a treasure hunt.

➡ The world is weird. We'll show you how it works.

In the early 1960s, a geologist named Jack Oliver first documented the pulse, also known as a "microseism," according to Discover. Oliver, who worked at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory at the time, heard the noise, but didn't have the advanced instruments seismologists have now at his disposal.

Since then, scientists have spent a lot of time listening to the pulse and even finding out where it comes from: “a part of the Gulf of Guinea called the Bight of Bonny,” Discover says.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Humor; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
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To: fwdude

Perusing the misses’ underwear section, no doubt. *chuckle*


21 posted on 11/04/2020 11:31:09 PM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Viking2002

Like this new one better. Found on YT. Sounds like Radar having a party.

The New Russian Woodpecker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IpjPbdKSFM

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rEdf196
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I caught this strange OTHR like signal while surfing the websdr site sounding very much like the old classic Russian Woodpecker which originally operated from 1976 to 1989. I remember it well. This signal also at 10 beats per second which gave off a powerful variable pulsing sound when in AM mode but I think it is a problem related to websdr I have Heard other CW, RTTY and time signals with similar pops and pulses.The signal climbed in frequency through the 14 mhz ham band and many SW broadcast .stations with little regard for their band space. Could this be the new Woodpecker I have been hearing about for the last few months? I would say the signal is considerably less powerful and narrower than the classic woodpecker of old, which was up to 50+ KHZ wide or more back in the day. some say its the same Duga facilities making the signals but I would guess it is a much smaller more modern system. I don’t even know if its Russian or not. I have not heard it yet here on Vancouver Island.


22 posted on 11/04/2020 11:31:54 PM PST by Norski
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To: Don W

Thanks, I thought I was alone....


23 posted on 11/04/2020 11:32:08 PM PST by datura
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To: PghBaldy

Yonada only needed a course correction. Ours has a case of the vapors.


24 posted on 11/04/2020 11:33:19 PM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Viking2002

Mother Earth is female.

No guy will ever know why she has her “times.”


25 posted on 11/04/2020 11:33:28 PM PST by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Viking2002

....Called to the blackboard or the bell rings and you have a stiffy from musing over some class hottie or the milf teacher

Put your books in front....we didn’t have back packs like now

Man....


26 posted on 11/04/2020 11:33:49 PM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: TBP

They have pacemakers now that’ll detect and correct that. But it would be one whopper to install one on Earth.


27 posted on 11/04/2020 11:34:28 PM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: freedumb2003

Sounds like my wife. She’s been on the menopause carousel for months now and I wish she’d get off before I choke her. LOL


28 posted on 11/04/2020 11:36:42 PM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Viking2002

It is very interesting.


29 posted on 11/04/2020 11:37:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Viking2002

I had beans.


30 posted on 11/04/2020 11:40:45 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: wardaddy

Hell, you just described me from about ‘75 onward. LOL


31 posted on 11/04/2020 11:44:01 PM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Norski

I remember hearing the Russian woodpecker all the time, in the 70s, when I was trying to communicate with other hams. It was usually 20 or 30 over S 9. Impossible to talk over.


32 posted on 11/05/2020 12:00:30 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot.)
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To: Mark17

The Lincolnshire Poacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXPqUU6fI0


33 posted on 11/05/2020 12:03:31 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Viking2002
OH, COME ON, PEOPLE!!

32 freaking replies to this article already, and not one single one of you has yet to relate it to politics? To Algore? To Trump? To Pelosi?

Your all losing yer mojo!

34 posted on 11/05/2020 12:06:01 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("May You Live in Interesting Times": Ancient Chinese Curse. The Wuhanic Plague: Modern Chinese Curse)
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I’m going with low blood pressure.


35 posted on 11/05/2020 12:09:11 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

I’m gonna take you out to the back 40 and put you down like a lame horse. [/sarc]


36 posted on 11/05/2020 12:16:51 AM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Mark17

Perhaps that was the reason for it?

Have heard something like that. Block VOA maybe?


37 posted on 11/05/2020 12:21:34 AM PST by Norski
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To: Viking2002

Ever heard the 3744 hz?


38 posted on 11/05/2020 12:27:39 AM PST by Norski
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To: Norski; dfwgator
I heard it all the time on the Ham bands. I don’t know what it was, but I heard a rumor it was Russian air defense radars, but I don’t know for sure what it was. I DO remember it was very annoying. 🤗
39 posted on 11/05/2020 12:29:44 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot.)
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To: Norski

No, I haven’t. Interesting?


40 posted on 11/05/2020 12:37:58 AM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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