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List of Unexplained Sounds

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SDR (software-defined radio) enthusiasts also found something they can't identify: whistlers. You can see/hear them in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hv--BR0ddE

also briefly addressed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRcaxpbYCw

edit: not on topic, should have refrained from posting as it's a VLF radio phenomenon and not a sound.

Re: List of Unexplained Sounds

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I don't understand this.

What, is there an archive out there that has every recorded sound by every single human being and along with has complete information about the recording, and only these 7 clips are not understood?

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post #2

Interesting that most of them are detected in 1997 (4 out of 6 specific ones).

Also, by the same thing: Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array.

I can't find much about it after ten seconds' worth of googling, but maybe that's when it was constructed?

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post #5

I don't understand this. What, is there an archive out there that has every recorded sound by every single human being and along with has complete information about the recording, and only these 7 clips are not understood?

> This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

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post #5

I don't understand this. What, is there an archive out there that has every recorded sound by every single human being and along with has complete information about the recording, and only these 7 clips are not understood?

it goes the other way (grouping of things, rather than subsetting):

1. X sound is found and nobody understands what causes it

2. X gets a wikipedia page

3. someone creates a list of various pages such as X

4. optional, some other people add more pages such as X having noticed the list

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post #5

I don't understand this. What, is there an archive out there that has every recorded sound by every single human being and along with has complete information about the recording, and only these 7 clips are not understood?

Partly - the specific ones all seem NOAA originated, which iirr is the American oceanographer group. They along with Navy proper have very vested interests in identifing unusual ocean sounds. But just as you can find parrots that say good morning, given enough fish swimming past enough deep seamicrophones, eventually one ofthem will sound like they are whistling a braoadway tune

sorry folks, fun, creepy but in the end self selecting and probably in the strange things happen on the planet category.

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