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Topic: B flat from space |
Gary Slabaugh
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Scottsdale, AZ
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 6:04 am |
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| The news today told about a space observatory that has picked up sound, to be specific a B flat from a dark hole 250 million light years away..talk about sustain! They say the b flat is 57 octaves below middle "C"..guess that would end the debate on whether to use a tuner or do it by ear. Wonder what string guage you would need? |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 6:29 am
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Great news! I always believed Jimi was still out there somewhere......
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Jackie Anderson
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Scarborough, ME
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 7:27 am
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| I was going to ask if that was J.I. or... but naw, it's got to be E.T. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 7:57 am
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| Wouldn't you know it would be close to 60 cycle hum! |
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Michael Haselman
From:
St. Paul
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 8:38 am
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If it was Jimi, he was playing a song in B, as he tuned 1/2 step down. Maybe "Fire"?
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 9:48 am
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| It would be interesting to know how they discovered that! Space is a vacuum, a nearly perfect one. Sound needs a medium (such as air or water, or some other mass) to propogate. Where there is no medium, there can be no "sound". Some celestial bodies, such as pulsars, do emit bursts of energy in the electromagnetic spectrum. But that's not sound. |
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Anders Brundell
From:
Falun, Sweden
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 11:58 am
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| Apparently they mean a frequency, not a sound. Many things have frequencies and are not sound (light waves, water waves, etc). |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 10 Sep 2003 12:16 pm
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| Actually, Donny, we're both wrong. If you look at the link posted on the other universal Bb topic, you will see that they are talking about pressure waves in interstellar gas, which is sound. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 13 Sep 2003 8:46 am
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I want a galaxy (one that can be tuned) for my home studio.
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Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I'm schizophrenic,
and so am I
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 13 Sep 2003 9:17 am
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I'm inclined to agree with David, I don't think they're "sound" at all. I think they're just smoke rings, plain and simple! 
And besides, interstellar gas is far too rarified to transmit acoustic energy. What they are seeing here is actually standing waves in cosmic dust caused by gravitational flux density variations. These anomalies are electromagnetic (and not acoustic) in nature. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 13 Sep 2003 9:31 am
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A Bb 57 octaves below the concert C!!! I wanna see a loudspeaker, that'll reproduce that!!
When I was a kid, it was common to tune your guitar to a telephone dial tone, which was suppose to be an A note. But I'm pretty sure, that on those cool ol' bakelite telephones my grandpaw had, the dial tone was Bb 
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