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.

[JaguarXKE]

That’s just the sound of all the liberals when they heard Rush had inked a $400M deal through 2016!

[r9etb]

More usefully, if Earth emits these “screams,” other planets probably do, too.... Which suggests that radio telescopes can be used to identify candidate planets around other stars.

[militant2]

Mother Earth is screaming because we heartless humans are raping her and causing her to overheat.....(BARF)

Militant

[Sybeck1]

Just an alarm to keep the curious away......

[Berlin_Freeper]

[mirkwood]

(More usefully, if Earth emits these “screams,” other planets probably do, too.... Which suggests that radio telescopes can be used to identify candidate planets around other stars.)

We already have. There are a bunch already found that possess the atmosphere that would be inducive to life.

[fanfan]

If this was the 70’s the hippies would be introducing us to “The Song of the Earth”.

But, it’s 2008, so now it’s “screaming”.

[GreenHornet]

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.

It's probably just the daily Air America broadcasts.

[martin_fierro]

One man's screams are another alien's music

[Domandred]

Sounds caused by the solar wind colliding with the Earth’s magnetic fields and they are calling it “Earth’s screams”? Wouldn’t the same effect be recorded say from any other planet with magnetic field? For that matter even a moon?

I don’t think our magnetic field is unique is it?

[airborne]

There are a bunch already found that possess the atmosphere that would be inducive to life.

So what are we waiting for?

Let's get busy building rockets to send all the tree hugging, global warming believing liberals to one!

Al Gore's the captain!

[indcons]

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

[shineon]

[mknj]

I think it’s probably the humpback whale sounds from Star Trek 4

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The Sound of Jupiter: NASA-Voyager Recording

[Who is John Galt?]

Sorry, folks - that was just me - I had the temperature dialed down too far in the shower this morning, in an effort to save 'Mother Earth' by not 'wasting' $0.0001 worth of NATURAL gas...

/s>

[ushr435]

You mean when the earth was being threatened by a giant screeching beef log?

[LiberConservative]

Sounds like my ex-wife.

[Unam Sanctam]

The planet is having a fever...

[FatherofFive]

Hillary after losing to B Hussein Obama (May peace be upon him)

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Must be the Earth’s cries of anguish over Global Warming. (Just kidding!)
Sounds are not heard in space. For the liberals among you, there is no air in space, and sound needs air in order to travel.

[Spok]

“That’s just the sound of all the liberals when they heard Rush had inked a $400M deal through 2016!”

I’d give a month’s pay to have seen Dan Rather’s face when he heard about LImbaugh’s salary!!

[Chode]

SO WHAT... so does everything else

...Space Sounds

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[count-your-change]

That can’t be a real picture, moonbatosity is misspelled.

[MrEdd]

That can’t be a real picture, moonbatosity is misspelled.

The engraver was a terrible copyist.

[count-your-change]

How can I take a man seriously when he wears a short dress without white knee socks? I mean, really, has he no fashion taste at all?

[RetSignman]

They can’t fool me...that’s the soundtrack from Alfred Hichcocks “The Birds”.

[varon]

OMG, how embarrassing. Among all the floaters in the universe, earth is known as the “screamer”...............

[Salamander]

The infernal “scream” won’t play for me.
It’s just a blank screen with no buttons to push.

[Jaded]

So that’s what’s going on at the beginning of Independence Day. Ooh, I need to have my annual viewing of it! Yippee!!!!!

[Jaded]

Bad, bad Martin. 51 seconds was more than I could handle. What quantity/quality of illicit drugs did John do to allow that in concert? Or consider it “music”?

[doug from upland]

What is YOUP?

[rawcatslyentist]

Preposterous! Now if you had a smelloscope.....

Of course we had to rename Uranus, to avoid all the bad jokes. It's now Urectum, let me locate it for you.

[JRios1968]

[Enchante]

Howard Dean: "You see, I was just screaming in support of GAIA!!! This is how Mother Earth does it!"

[Enchante]

So now when the aliens come to destroy Planet Earth we'll know it's because of all the racket we've been making across the cosmos......

ALIENS: "WE'RE MAD AS HELL AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

[RightWhale]

The whistles and hisses of the aurora could be recorded out there by space aliens, but that is not the same as the title of this piece.

[Tainan]

message back to earth:

"SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY!"

[Baynative]

[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.