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NASA probe hears "shriek" in space as it leaves solar system (audio)
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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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KEYWORDS: mystery; nasa; science; scream; space; voyager; voyager1
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Uh oh...
1 posted on 09/15/2013 2:54:35 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

Probably made a hole, and we’re going to leak.


2 posted on 09/15/2013 2:56:16 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dallas59

It took that long for news of Obama’s election to reach the spacecraft.


3 posted on 09/15/2013 2:56:28 PM PDT by relictele ("An elective despotism was not the government we fought for..." - James Madison)
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To: Dallas59

Reminds me of the “sferics” you can hear just below the longwave band on a radio.


4 posted on 09/15/2013 2:57:27 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

In space no can hear .....


5 posted on 09/15/2013 2:57:55 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: Dallas59

heh heh heh....


6 posted on 09/15/2013 2:58:26 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Dallas59

translation: “KAHN!!!!”


7 posted on 09/15/2013 2:58:32 PM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Dallas59

no “one”...fat fingers..


8 posted on 09/15/2013 3:00:57 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: Dallas59

9 posted on 09/15/2013 3:01:02 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Dallas59

"They're heeeeere..."

-PJ

10 posted on 09/15/2013 3:03:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Dallas59

Interpretation: “You gotta pay the toll to cross the barrier! You gotta pay!!!”

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NASA has many recording of ‘sounds from space and Earth’. The universe is not quiet.


11 posted on 09/15/2013 3:04:08 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Dallas59

12 posted on 09/15/2013 3:05:45 PM PDT by jsh3180
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To: smokingfrog

It found the Great Barrier!

-PJ

13 posted on 09/15/2013 3:05:50 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Dallas59

I’m freeeeee!!!!!


14 posted on 09/15/2013 3:06:08 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Dallas59
Reavers

No Power in the 'verse is as scary as they are...

15 posted on 09/15/2013 3:07:06 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Dallas59

“SHRIEK! Who let the humans out...”


16 posted on 09/15/2013 3:08:20 PM PDT by SES1066 (To expect courteous government is insanity!)
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To: Dallas59

Did we just hear from the SG1 Wraith?


17 posted on 09/15/2013 3:11:41 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Dallas59

Maybe it ran over a Tribble.


18 posted on 09/15/2013 3:14:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: bk1000

Ping


19 posted on 09/15/2013 3:15:11 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Dallas59

“wraithlike”.

“KHAN!”


20 posted on 09/15/2013 3:17:06 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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