At this site, you can download the sounds that stars and planets make as they spin. Very cool.
[quote begins from article at "World Science.com"]
“[T]he sun and other stars do actually ‘sing,’” said astronomer Donald Kurtz of The University of Central Lancashire in Preston, U.K.... Stars—themselves spherical—can produce notes through their vibrations, like musical instruments. .Stars produce ghostly whistling, drumming, humming or rumbling sounds, said Kurtz, though their frequencies—or speeds of vibration—must be artificially boosted to bring them into human hearing range......At a lecture...Kurtz demonstrated how Bach would sound if played by the stars, combining pitches from different stars into a computer-projected melody. He also used helium, cymbals and bottles to recreate stellar sounds. “Stars have natural vibrations that are sound waves, just as musical instruments do,” Kurtz explained..... "For the star, the vibrations start by changes in the passage of energy from the nuclear inferno in the heart of the star on its way to the surface, and escape into space.” Early last year, researchers published a paper noting that a massive quake had left a so-called neutron star vibrating like a bell, sounding a note corresponding to what humans designate as F sharp. Early this year, scientists reported that not only stars vibrate musically—the whole Milky Way is oscillating as well, like a drumhead.
[quote from article ends; fascinating links in the original]
I find this thought curiously comforting---that one might hear the massive vibrations of planets and systems as music.
....I'LL SEE YOU ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
Speaking of music, the spheres, and massive (yet strangely comforting) vibrations....
Peter Clifton, an Australian producer and rock video director, appears to be the person in possession of some of the missing footage of the Apollo moon landing (or some of it).
[quote begins from The Sydney Morning Herald online, One Small Step in Hunt for Moon Film world Didn't See by Carmel Egan]
Mr Clifton said: "On a visit to Washington I went to [the] Smithsonian and asked if they had any shots of rocket ships travelling. They said, 'Well, we can give you highlights of the moon shot.'
"A week later a delivery came to my film studio in Los Angeles with the can of film. When I opened it up I was gobsmacked because instead of getting a couple of minutes I got nearly half an hour of a complete film.
"So I took a couple of shots out of it and cut it together with the Dark Side Of The Moon demo for the Floyd film. But I was so busy I never got a chance to finish it and the film just went into the vaults.
"I didn't think another thing about it until a few nights ago when I was watching television and it came on the news. And I thought, 'I have got that stuff.' "
Mr Clifton's business partner and catalogue manager Drew Thompson said their 16-millimetre film version of the Apollo 11 landing contains images never released to the public.
And that too is very cool.
Apparently there's hope---at least according to the above-referenced article--- that NASA can somehow use the "documentation associated with" for that shipment to Clifton to locate the warehouse[s] or other facility[ies] where 700 boxes of transmissions are stored.
The passive voice construction of the sentence in the Sydney Morning Herald article quoted above ["it is hoped that"] doesn't make it clear whether this is NASA's hope, the writer's, or The Sydney Herald's, but it sounds a bit of a long shot. Do they have that documentation? Does Clifton?
In the meantime, we'll have to hope for the best.
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