This audio recording of Earth's magnetic field is the "stuff of nightmares"

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Yep, my new ring tone.

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Sounds like the collapse of civilization.

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The new Forbidden Planet movie score.

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Bah. They could have easily kept adjusting it until it sounded like white noise, and it would still be just as “representative”.

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So, not only does Earth’s magnetic field protect us from the solar winds, its “sound” keeps invading aliens away from us. Big smoochy kiss for you, magnetic field! Have a cookie!

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Sounds like something by Einstürzende Neubauten

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It sounds exactly like someone recording an earthquake from within their home, while sometimes catching their own panicked breathing. Hope that’s not foreshadowing…

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Nah. Holger Czukay.

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Yep, definitely more likely to be his work.

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He cooked up some weird but wonderful stuff in his lab, that’s for sure.

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Is it me, or does the Earth seem to have too many keys It’s fumbling for while holding a lot of cans and glass to take to the recycling center…during an earthquake, which is toppling over piles of pennies that were carefully counted? Probably me.

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So, was the frequency increased or decreased to make it audible to the human ear?

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Shhhhhh

Can’t you hear it?

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I think it is at my window, right now!

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Scary? It sounds like every decent-sized sailboat I’ve ever been on: random clinks, groaning planks, dripping water, weird unidentifiable noises, at their loudest of course when you’re trying to sleep. I had to double-check that I hadn’t clicked on a wrong link somehow.

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Right? Hardly the stuff of nightmares

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A very good analogy, too, I think.

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I was reminded of Breathe intro

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