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Posted on 09/15/2013 2:54:35 PM PDT by Dallas59
A strange, unearthly “shriek” greeted NASA’s Voyager I spacecraft as it became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
A strange rising “howl” was detected by instruments aboard the 36-year-old probe, which has travelled 12 billion miles away from our sun.
The sound was transmitted back to scientists on Earth, over a distance so vast radio waves take 17 hours to reach us. Science site iO9 described the sounds as “creepy” and “wraithlike”.
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Interesting.
Brin was one of the better SF writers of the late 20th Century. He seems to have largely dropped off the radar, though.
[Courtesy of the great FReeper, Roscoe Karns]
Talk about desparate to keep the budget going ...
Old-timers of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, know that sound is the screech that the 5kW Koehler generator makes in Building 3 at Area 57 (wink).
They know that the Voyagers ran out of juice, when their on-board computers both burned up trying to play a game of chess with each other!
“Send more Chuck Berry.”
Maybe it is the “sounds of hell from Siberia” played on Coast To Coast AM several moons ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvnxeX2SQso
After running the digital recording through a Morgusatronic Stabilizer, the unencrypted message read, “Klaatu, Barada, Nikto”.
Actually this is all due to a spelling error and should
have read, “NASA hears SHREK in interstellar space.”
17 hours? No. More like 17 minutes (still impressive).
Sounds like a soccer crowd
The Dosadi Experiment. As we get loose the universe cries in terror.
I find this wraithlike shriek to be disconcerting. I mean, what’s up with that? Yikes!
The sound of our own solar system howling its rage at the universe.
Now THAT was funny!
Our first adventure into the hinterland of deep space, and we make roadkill of a poor, innocent tribble.
Lets hope the intergalactic green weenies don’t take revenge.
I envision a WAY big spaceship showing up in DC, and a “Day the Earth Stood Still” robot reading us the riot act.
“Hey, Yo! Carbon Life Forms, you just did a hit an run on a protected intergalactic species! That crap’s gonna cost ya!”
First meeting with aliens gone way bad.
I’ll stop now, my brain cells just went on a voyage.
*snicker*
Yep, that “salt vampire” scene did include an epic Shatner scream. Chekov seems to have a more piercing scream, though. The probe probably picked up one of those scenes where he’s strapped down to a sickbay bed, writhing in pain.
Welcome to the `80s!
If any readers should want to hear the sound file,...
NASA probe hears shriek in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-AQwdX9rY
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