Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/10/9-inch-ice-core-dropped-down-a.html
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(in before “pew pew pew”)
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“ Fool of a Took !" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.”
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Soundtrack to a arcade game.
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“So what happens if we have a wider hole?”
“And a bigger lump of ice?”
“Hell, yeah!”
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Drop firecrackers down it, I bet that would sound amazing
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In San Francisco’s old Exploratorium (and likely the new; I don’t remember) there is a similarly long tube, a small angle off from horizontal. If you clap at the end that’s at human level, a moment later you hear this same sound, both due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_dispersion .
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Even better than guy wires.
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you never expect to hear high frequency at the all together
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“No blasters! No blasters!”
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Christ, what an ice hole.
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Clearly it was the sound of the inhabitants trying to destroy this chunk of ice before it crushed their city at the bottom.
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Fah! Hundreds of years from now, if there’s any ice left, future researchers will be confused by this odd piece of ice at the bottom of a sample core.
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Future scientist: “Upon examining the deep ice in Antarctica, it appears that the atmosphere contained lots of sulfur and particulate carbon. What was surprising was the concentration of strontium carbonate, sodium nitrate, and copper chloride, which would tint the atmosphere in multiple colors.”
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Now where is the experimental music thread of a few days ago? That and the dropping a bolt into a turbine have been blown out of the water.
Sounds like an ambush from any 1960s Western TV series.
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