I thought I heard something

I thought I heard something but I had no idea........



Robert Roy BrittSenior Science WriterSPACE.com Tue Jul 1, 12:33 AM ET
Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, astronomers have discovered.

The sound is awful, a new recording from space reveals.

Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s. It is created high above the planet, where charged particles from the solar wind collide with Earth's magnetic field. It is related to the phenomenon that generates the colorful aurora, or Northern Lights.
The radio waves are blocked by the ionosphere, a charged layer atop our atmosphere, so they do not reach Earth. That's good, because the out-of-this-world radio waves are 10,000 times stronger than even the strongest military signal, the researchers said, and they would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet.
Theorists had long figured the radio waves, which were not well studied, oozed into space in an ever-widening cone, like light from a torch.
But new data from the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, a group of four high-flying satellites, reveals the bursts of radio waves head off to the cosmos in beam-like fashion, instead.
This means they're more detectable to anyone who might be listening.
The Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), as it is called, is beamed out in a narrow plane, as if someone had put a mask over a torch and left a slit for the radiation to escape.
This flat beam could be detected by aliens who've figured this process out, the researchers say. The knowledge could also be used by Earth's astronomers to detect planets around other stars, if they can build a new radio telescope big enough for the search. They could also learn more about Jupiter and Saturn by studying AKR, which should emit from the auroral activity on those worlds, too.
"Whenever you have aurora, you get AKR," said Robert Mutel, a University of Iowa researcher involved in the work.
The AKR bursts -- Mutel and colleagues studied 12,000 of them -- originate in spots the size of a large city a few thousand miles above Earth and above the region where the Northern Lights form.
"We can now determine exactly where the emission is coming from," Mutel said.
Our planet is also known to hum, a mysterious low-frequency sound thought to be caused by the churning ocean or the roiling atmosphere.
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I've often wondered what that humming sound was but always thought it was just in my head....now I feel a tad bit better.

I hope the sound doesn't change according to Supreme Court rulings...because there have been some opinions lately that cause me to scream.

The strangest ruling
(and each of us will have a different favorite)
... INJURED PATIENTS OR THEIR SURVIVORS MAY NOT SUE THE MAKERS OF ALLEGEDLY DEFECTIVE MEDICAL DEVICES IF THE DEVICES WERE APPROVED BY THE FDA.

Of course removing the Death Penalty for Child Rape might rank up there...but I have personal issues with the Death Penalty...but if the Death Penalty is going to exist then the rape of a child should probably be left in the equation.

The reduction of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is just flat out wrong. Especially when profits have been out of this world. $507 million dollars is about one day (?) of profits for Exxon Mobil. They should at the very least had to cough up a year of profits. They made $10 BILLION in the first quarter.

I've said it before and I'll say it again....the only reason to be President of the United States is so that you might possibly have a chance to nominate a Supreme Court Justice during your term....and if you win the lottery you can appoint two.

The Supreme Court has the final say in all matters.

No wonder the planet is making strange sounds.

Michael Timothy McAlevey