Earth's Screams Recorded in Space

FOXNews.com ^ | 2 July 2008 | Robert Roy Britt

[COBOL2Java]

Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, if they're out there.

The sound is awful, a new recording from space reveals.

Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s. It is created high above the planet, where charged particles from the solar wind collide with Earth's magnetic field.

• Click here to hear the sounds.

It is related to the phenomenon that generates the colorful aurora, or Northern Lights.

The radio waves are blocked by the ionosphere, a charged layer atop our atmosphere, so they do not reach Earth.

That's good, because the out-of-this-world radio waves are 10,000 times stronger than even the strongest military signal, the researchers said, and they would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet.

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Theorists had long figured the radio waves, which were not well studied, oozed into space in an ever-widening cone, like light from a torch.

But new data from the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, a group of four high-flying satellites, reveals the bursts of radio waves head off to the cosmos in beam-like fashion, instead.

This means they're more detectable to anyone who might be listening.

The Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), as it is called, is beamed out in a narrow plane, as if someone had put a mask over a torch and left a slit for the radiation to escape.

This flat beam could be detected by aliens who've figured this process out, the researchers say.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I rue the day when we start getting invoices from Jupiter and have to start paying Solar System Noise Credits.

[potlatch]

The scream lives on, but it could have been me they heard!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Those aliens are GREEN with envy. We have cows, they don’t.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream....

[potlatch]

Lol, it probably isn’t ice cream I would scream about but thanks for the thought.

[Teacher317]

Those aliens are GREEN with envy. We have cows, they don’t.

Hey, humans ARE cows for the aliens!

[Lady Jag]

Yes, we've all been there, haven't we.

Yes, I can feel it now.

[potlatch]

I FEEL A SCREAM COMING ON

 

lol, good graphic!

[lightman]

It’s the pain caused by global warming....LOL

Or possibly, confirmation of the truth of what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans in the first century--long before radio telescopes:

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now, and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:22-23)

[weegee]

Worst news yet is that Yoko Ono will now sing a duets album of showtune standards with Mother Earth.

[Slings and Arrows]

Beats rap music.

[Larry Lucido]

In space, no one can hear earth scream.

[Califreak]

It's all his fault!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks The Spirit of Allegiance.

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[.30Carbine]

If the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore. . . . . . like Intelligent Design.

[Mike Darancette]

In space no one can hear you scream.

[Just another Joe]

One person’s screaming is another person’s singing.

[skinkinthegrass]

...they were recording YOKO ONOs' Shrieking