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NASA Is Falling Apart Rapidly

Elaine Meinel Supkis

NASA is lost in space. The Mars mission maniacs still believe they will jet for the stars but realistic people can see the writing on the walls: we are going bankrupt and because of spending a trillion dollars trying to secure the oil in Iraq, we have no more money for space cadets. Everything is falling apart.

From the BBC:

At a time when climate change impacts are accelerating, our ability to observe those impacts from space is deteriorating.

Cuts in US government funding for Nasa programmes will dramatically weaken scientists' capacity to monitor and understand the planet's climate; at least, so says a major study from the National Research Council (NRC), published earlier this year.

If present trends continue, they conclude, by 2015 the number of US Earth-observing satellite missions will be reduced by half, putting the scientific systems they support "at risk of collapse".

This ticks me off. Mars is a geologically crippled planet with barely anything happening due to it losing most of its water and atmosphere over the eons. No more volcanoes erupt. There is a spring and winter still but it can't even cook up a small rainstorm, just sand storms and dust devils. I bet it doesn't even have earthquakes.

But this planet is the most special one in the universe, it is extremely dynamic on every level all the way to the active core. It is tremendously complex and we still know so very little. Looking at the earth from above means being able to see the larger picture and this is very important for us creatures living here on the uncertain and ever-changing surface. Just like watching that interesting old star, the sun, is life and death.

But because Bush and his doomsday cult creeps hate this earth and view it as a place to rape and pillage for their own lusts, they are uninterested in looking at it from afar and protecting it from the many dangers that lurk out there in space. Bush doesn't care about Mars, either. He needed those fools in the the Space Exploration community to help him take power and in return, they get to play children's games, pretending they are Darth Vader.

The real beneficiaries of government largess has been the doomsday cultists building various missile weapons systems that will enable us to launch WWIII. These people are also building huge bomb shelters in hidden places at taxpayer expense. They believe the way to protect this planet is to blow up as many humans as possible so the Master Race survives and runs the joint using superior technology.

These people infest all levels of the government. They are extremely dangerous. Note how this spring, they have been busy ramming their missiles down Europe's throats, egging on the Russians and daring them to meet us, missile to missle.

A stupid mistake since China is Russia's closest ally and Germany has been placating Russia since 1982. Both don't want WWIII. Not that the doomsdayers care.

From Florida Today:

Congressional investigators questioned NASA's top attorney behind closed doors Friday about his role in destroying copies of a recorded meeting between the NASA administrator and the agency's watchdog office.

Michael Wholley approved the action, NASA acknowledged Friday. The recordings were of an April 10 meeting called to discuss an integrity report. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin did not want the gathering recorded because he wanted employees to feel free to talk, agency spokesman David Mould said.

The Democrats have been investigating all sorts of things and this matter has gotten press coverage but it is the tip of the iceberg. Bush has put into positions of responsiblity, an army of 'Brownies' whose sole function is to gum up the works and hinder scientists studying this planet. They don't want the condition of this planet to make the news and motivate people to stop the rapine and destruction of it. Also, they want people to hate this planet and not care if it is blown up and made toxic via nuclear bombs.

From ABC:

Three key members of Congress called for the removal Monday of NASA's inspector general, saying he abused his authority, was too chummy with NASA leaders and created a "hostile" workplace in the auditing office.

The call for the dismissal of NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb came after the lawmakers received a report on Cobb's conduct from the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which has been investigating complaints about Cobb dating back to 2005.

The entire government is filled with such people as Cobb. He was there to work with Griffin to destroy the life sciences and the teams of scientists working on earth projects. He also was there to keep the money flowing to the corporations that make stuff for NASA and which are all Bush Pioneers, paying him bribes to keep the money flowing.

And they make little money off of science satellites, their milch kuh is the Space Shuttle. This white elephant herd of clumsy space vehicles is growing smaller and smaller via blowing up and killing everyone. There are no more shuttles being built and the ones being used are very old with ancient computers from the Atari era and the dream of many launches every year dwindled from day one to hair-raising rarity.

Homer Hickam,
Friday, August 29, 2003:

Take a look at the Shuttle stack and what do you see? A fragile spaceplane sitting on the back of a huge propellant tank between two massive solid rocket boosters. The tank holds liquid oxygen and hydrogen and towers above the spaceplane. It is the foam off this tank that hit Columbia and knocked a hole in her wing. But why is there foam at all? Because without it, ice would form on the super-cooled tank and hit the spaceplane. But why would ice or foam hit it in the first place? Because of where the spaceplane sits. But why does it sit there? Because the Shuttle Main Engines (SME's) need to come back to Earth and therefore must be attached to the spaceplane to be returned. And why do the SME's need to be returned? So that they can be reused. And why do they have to be reused? Because, theoretically, it's cheaper to refurbish them than build new ones. Therefore, the spaceplane we think of as the Shuttle has to sit right in the middle of all the turmoil of launch because we once believed it would be cheaper to bring back those engines and rebuild them than to build new ones. That has not proved to be the case-far from it-but it has left us with a crew sitting in the most vulnerable position possible in terms of engineering design and safety. Simply put, had that spaceplane been on top of the stack, the destruction of Columbia would not have occurred because its wings would have been out of the line of fire. Challenger would probably not have happened, either. Had the spaceplane been above the explosion, it likely would have been able to punch out and glide back home.

Despite the latest disaster, NASA kept on launching the shuttle but reduced it to only once a month or less. But even this has proven to be impossible and it has now been many months since the last one was supposed to go. Meanwhile, the staff working on or for the Space Shuttle is falling apart and ending up in the news. Kidnapping, suicide-murders and simple depression plagues NASA. Instead of feeling like they are forging ahead into the future, they are flying backwards into the past.

This sense of losing ground has demoralized the staff and in the Jet Propulsion Lab and science community, the astronomers and biologists and geologists using the stream of intensely interesting data pouring in---they are all filled with fury and frustration because they can see their 'eyes' in space shutting down as old satellites degrade. They need to keep these programs going and extend them.

By Gregg Easterbrook April 1980

NASA longed to abandon the familiar one-shot rocket-whose stages, once fired, went tumbling into the sea or burned up, taking their titanium castings and navigational computers with them. The Saturn V moon rocket, for example, weighed 3,050 tons at blast-off, and you got exactly seven tons back--that dinky little "command module" the men rode in. "We wanted to have only miniscule involvement with the rocket concept in the future," Day says.

At first NASA asked for an all-reusable shuttle. Grumman and McDonnell-Douglas came up with a plan that called for two huge winged ships, each with its own pilots and engines, mated piggyback. They would blast off together, with the larger ship-the booster-spitting fire for the first 10 to 20 miles of altitude. Then, fuel spent, it would circle back to land like an airplane. The smaller ship would continue into orbit, drop its cargo, reenter the atmosphere, and also land like a plane: NASA believed this system would be economical to operate, but would cost $10 billion to build. The Office of Management and Budget balked. Ten billion, it gasped--out of the question!

What could you do, OMB asked, for $5 billion? Design of the horse was referred to committee, where a compromise was found. A partially reusable shuttle was conceived.

I remember the negotiations over the Space Shuttle. It so happened, this was also when we were in trouble with paying for both the Vietnam war and the USA hit the Hubbert Oil Peak, the first nation to do so. Inflation was beginning to rage as world oil prices shot up due to wars in the Middle East. Inflation at home began to rage. The USA has to try to sell the idea of space exploration to a worried Congress that felt back then, they had to balance the budget.

Since then, balancing the budget has become old hat and only one year since, under Clinton, has it been anywhere near balanced, often it runs deep in the red and since Bush took over, very deep in the red as it ignores reality. NASA thought it could ignore reality just like the Pentagon but they now realize they are Bush's enemies and he wants to destroy the scientists who are the backbone of NASA and the most important component.

The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped,Sunday, Feb. 02, 2003 By GREGG EASTERBROOK :

Any new space system that reduced costs would be, to the contractors, killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Just a few weeks ago, NASA canceled a program called the Space Launch Initiative, whose goal was to design a much cheaper and more reliable replacement for the shuttle. Along with the cancellation, NASA announced that the shuttle fleet would remain in operation until 2020, meaning that Columbia was supposed to continue flying into outer space even when its airframe was more than 40 years old! True, B-52s have flown as long. But they don't endure three times the force of gravity on takeoff and 2000*none on re-entry.

The space station is a failed experiment. We really don't know what to do with it. I would say, it was conceived of too small and too petty. Either go for it all the way or don't do it at all, in this case. Building space colonies means cutting the Pentagon's budget by 2/3rds and committing vast resources. But this is not politically possible. So the entire idea should have been canned.

I want a host of probes sent throughout this solar system as well as probes seeking a way of looking at our solar system from above the galactic plane. This concept is nearly impossible for our present abilities but it must be done because we have to 'see' what the heck is going on up there. As well as sending probes to that dark area just outside of the sun's windstream: that place where those comets and meteorites come out of with so little warning.

From Australia, The Age:

With only three years remaining before the space-shuttle fleet's planned retirement, NASA managers have begun tackling the thorny issues that will dictate the program's end.

Critical facilities must be overhauled to support planned human missions to the moon. Billions of dollars' worth of obsolete shuttle hardware must be disposed of.

And, most difficult of all, thousands of jobs must be shifted or eliminated as the shuttle era ends and the new Constellation project takes off.

Shutting down the Shuttle program irritates many Congress critters as well as being a sore point for anyone running for office. It is a big money maker soaking up tax dollars and like the many Pentagon programs, was scattered about the nation so all of Congress would want to keep it going. Of course, the fact that there are barely any shuttles left and they are viewed increasingly as a terrifying prospect when they are launched, this is demoralizing not just NASA but the entire USA which cringes when launches occur.

And I remember a similar period back in the 1950's: Russia's rockets were beating our own and this upset everyone for we were losing the space race. But the Soviet state got bogged down in trying to keep Eastern Europe, parts of Russia itself and Afghanistan under the Soviet boot heels and this cost a lot of money and created massive bad will that grew greater by the day and financing this tyranny was making it harder and harder for Russia to have any sort of space program.

And here we are, imitating them! Closing our borders to professors and intellectuals, hindering and harrassing scientists and creative people, spending a fortune trying to keep a grip on our vast empire, running deep in the red, debasing our currency, destroying our entire industrial base. And we want to conquer space?

We can't even walk in daylight in many of our inner cities! We are fearful of ourselves as mass murderers run riot even in the halls of NASA! Spying on each other and the entire planet uses up precious satellites and resources rather than looking outwards at the rest of creation!

We are as doomed as the Soviets.

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The 62 Million Year Extinction Cycle Explained

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Astronomers detect a 62 million year cycle whereby the earth, instead of being part of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, actually moves on a different plane entirely, I have talked about this in the past in several articles: the sun isn't native to this galaxy but rather, was born within a small 'hobbit' star cluster/galaxy which was captured by the bigger galaxy and we go through vast changes in our stellar environment as our sun moves through various parts of the galactic plane.

From National Geographic:

Mikhail Medvedev and Adrian Melott, both of the University of Kansas, presented their new theory at a meeting of the American Physical Society earlier this month.

The theory offers the first explanation for a mysterious pattern previously noted in the fossil record.

"There are 62-million-year ups and downs in the number of marine animals over the last 550 million years," Melott said.

One of the wonders of Nature is how things like to cycle. Cycling isn't straightforwards, it usually means circular motion or waves or things making waves by moving in circles, etc. If the movements of galaxies through time and space could be seen as if they are snakes moving across sand dunes, for example, we could then trace their paths. But of course, we cannot. We can only try to figure out from what we see to day, what happened in the past.

We can now plainly see thanks to modern optics, galaxies are sucked into each other's orbs and they merge quite violently. And 'active' galaxies are filled with very hot, white stars. We can see some really spectacular fireworks within some of our neighboring galaxies. The nearer to the source of these crashes, the hotter and brighter the stars. Our own star isn't hot and white, it is a yellow star and thus, has a long life.

Looking at other galaxies, I can only say, we are so fortunate that our little star has been captured by a galaxy that has only sucked in very small mini-galaxies and is not participating in one of those epic mass-collisions we see all around us.

From the National Geographic:

The Kansas researchers discovered that high rates of extinction in the cycle coincide almost perfectly with periodic "excursions" of the solar system outside the central plane of the Milky Way galaxy.

"Excursions to galactic north coincide with drops in biodiversity," Melott said.

During these periods, which include some of the largest mass extinctions known from the fossil record, Earth is bombarded with high levels of cosmic radiation.

Funny, that. Do all the hot, white stars take little strolls away from the general gravitational pool? I doubt this. We now can see that when various mini-galaxies or dwarf and hobbit galaxies fall into the gravitational grip of a big galaxy, they usually get stretched out with the family of stars losing contact with each other but since they fall in from all sorts of directions, they can even have polar orbits vis a vis the greater galaxy!

Our orbital plane is at a diagonal. Everything is somewhat cock-eyed vis a vis all the stars forming out of the interstellar dust and dirt that seems to be flowing in from all over the place. This dirty black stuff which doesn't emit light cloaks our galaxy so we barely can see any of the bright stars forming out of this mucky mess. The brutally bright core of this galaxy is nearly totally hidden from view or night would be as bright as day!

Since we are slowly being drawn into this galaxy and since it is also dragging in lots of dirt, as our little star, the Sun, rotates on its older path, it moves in and out of bands of space junk. These periods can be quite hazardous.

Our solar system travels through the disk-shaped Milky Way on a complicated circuit that takes about 225 million years to complete. At regular intervals, the system's wanderings take it up and down through the thin central portion of the disk. The sun reaches its farthest distance from the central plane every 62 million years.

The entire galactic disk, meanwhile, is hurtling through the hot gas that surrounds it at about 125 miles (200 kilometers) a second.

Wait! Wait! Is the Universe filled with 'hot gas'? Or are we in hot gas because we are part of a group of galaxies called 'the Local Group' (I love these utilitarian names!)? And the Great Attractor is attracting all this gas, right? And we are moving through it and not moving with it? What is this?

Looking at motion we have to remember our galaxy is rotating. In a circle. Like down a drain-type circle. In addition, we are moving towards the Great Attractor. Which I am assuming is rotating and moving probably in a circle, too. A big, big circle, of course. Anyway, our earth has been circling this star called the sun and it has been probably part of a small star cluster or mini-dwarf-hobbit galaxy and now we are trying to circle the Milky Way and we are off base because we are foreigners.

When the concept of a 'Hobbit' galaxy was suggested in January, I wrote a lot about this:

Life on our earth evolved in only 1 billion years. What if one of the companion yellow suns in our hobbit galaxy evolved life 3 billion years ago? Then they would have been the creatures who watched apprehensively as this quiet, peaceful group of old stars fell into the Milky Way and were torn from each other and exposed to vast explosions and disasters. Somehow, our own planet managed to survive. Occassionally, infalling material from that time passes by like we are seeing this week, zipping around the sun.

From Xinhua:

Seven of the new galaxies are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way, while the eighth appears to float freely in space.

The new Local Group members are even smaller and fainter than other known dwarf galaxies, with luminosities ranging from only a thousand to at most a few hundred thousand times that of our sun.

The dimness could be the result of stellar age, as seven of the new galaxies contain mostly old stars. Of these seven, two are located in the constellation Canes Venatici, one in Bootes, one in Leo, one in Coma Berenices, one in Ursa Major and one in Hercules.

Our eccentric orbit of this galaxy can't have gone on so close to the Orion Arm for 5 billion years. We would be much closer to the center by now if our sun formed while part of the Orion Arm. Since we glide up and down due to the spiral effect of our passage through space relative to the flatter plane of the Milky Way, note that few if any hot white stars get to have eccentric wanderings!---we go in and out of lots of different levels of density and gases of various sorts.

Probably our sun flared into existence out of the little galaxy it belonged to when the smaller galaxy began to suffer tidal pulls from the looming Milky Way. I bet that 5 billion years ago, if there were astronomers on this planet, they would have had a most spectacular view of this huge galaxy seen from a 32 degree angle!

Indeed, wouldn't it be logical that our sun hasn't always been in the Orion arm but has been in various other places vis a vis the rest of this galactic system? We don't know! Just like it took a long time for people to emotionally accept the idea that the earth went around the sun, so it is with our sun; it goes around the galaxy in an erratic way because it is alien.

From Rob Gendler Astropics:

A description of our local region within the Milky Way would not be complete without a mention of Gould's Belt. In 1879 the astronomer Benjamin Gould reported his survey of the distribution of bright stars in the local Milky Way. Gould's work showed that a true local subsystem of young stars and gas existed in a rotating flat disk inclined some 20 degrees to the proper disk of the Milky Way. The disk extends some 2000 light years across and contains some of the most famous astronomical objects including the Pleiades, the Orion Nebula and Horsehead regions, the California Nebula, the Coal Sack and the Rho Ophiuchus clouds near Antares. Gould's Belt must be a young structure between 30 and 40 million years old by virtue of the young stars it contains but its origins are still unclear. One theory is that an errant supercloud collided with a major spiral arm of the Milky Way about 100 million years ago. The shock wave resulted in the process of braking and compression of the gas of the supercloud into a flat rotating disk. The older stars drifted out of the disk leaving the younger stars to form Gould's Belt.

This could be problematic: I will note that thinking of this as an 'arrant cloud' that happens to 'collide' with our massive galaxy is funny. Wherever this cloud was moving in the past, once it came within the jurisdiction of the gravitational pool of this rotating galaxy, it rotated into it just like all the other junk that has added onto this system. Our sun is not a hot star nor was it very near any of these which is why I am assuming there wasn't much hot gas with the mini-galaxy our sun belonged to so when it was captured by the Milky Way, the impact was minor. As it is, when stars blow up or we get exposed to the violence of the elements burning around the galactic clusters that are flying through space towards each other, the grip that living things have on this planet are weakened badly.

Here is another article I wrote about all this:

Um, 4 billion years ago, our sun was born in this 'errant supercloud'. Stars born in smaller galaxies form groups. How shall I put it? Galaxies minding their own business, breezing along their ARC in the cosmos, sail along with old stars, all pretty much stable yellow guys along with assorted amounts of gases and thingies we call 'dust' and 'comets' and whatevers. Junk. And this largish mass with a non-blackhole center, namely, not very intensely organized but still enough gravity to form stars of middling size like our own sun, when two galaxies finally get within each other's tidal surges, they light up like a Christmas tree!

In a now-classic 1974 paper, Richard Stothers and Jay Frogel ["The Local Complex of O and B Stars. I. Distribution of Stars and Interstellar Dust," R. Stothers and J. A. Frogel (1974), Astron. J., 79, 456.* -- WebEd.] mapped out the spatial extent of the belt. Using newly determined distances for B5 and hotter stars, they found two highly flattened stellar systems inclined by 19° – 22° to each other -- the underlying galactic field and Gould’s belt. Figure 1 below shows an edge-on view from within the galactic mid-plane. The dots represent stars of spectral type B5 and earlier (hotter). The Sun is at the intersection of the X and Z axes, and the galactic centre is well out of the view to the right, 8,500 parsecs (pc) distant. The intersection of these planes coincides almost exactly with the position of the Sun. Actually, the Sun is about 20 pc above the galactic plane, but is, within the errors, precisely in the plane of Gould’s belt. The stellar density decreases with distance from the Sun because stars at greater distances are less completely sampled.

Astronomers like to imagine that if we have an increase in cosmic rays, mutations speed up and this causes extinctions. And I say, this is silly. Evolution needs mutations! This is what makes it run! But the force that creates changes in life forms is environmental. If old niches suddenly disappear because the weather changes, many life forms collapse or go extinct. And many, many have over the eons. Today, the earth is covered with life forms although humans are trying to destroy this.

When major extinctions happen that depopulate huge parts of the earth, this means habitat niches have changed in ways that living things can't deal with through simple mutation. Namely, even the mutants die. This happens when things get very hot or very cold, very fast. Since our sun is the main force that runs our energy systems, a sudden flaring of the sun because of gravitational disturbances vis a vis the Galactic plane, just for example, can cause the planet to overheat. Since sea extinctions are cyclic, this means we are probably seeing the sun's surge in energy on a 62 million year cycle?

If the sun is hyper-active, this means it probably spits out x-rays and the solar wind would be terrific and this would do bad things to the ozone layer too. And so it isn't the mutations but the generaly destruction of the environment that would be the killer. Namely, only select, protected communities can survive and of them, many are mutants and thus, the older life forms don't show up exactly as they were before.

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Sun Plays E Flat Music

Elaine Meinel Supkis

I finally go to listen to the 'music' of the sun and it sounded like just one monotonous note: E flat, I would guess, more or less. This reminded me of the huge black hole in the Perseus sector that plays B flat. So I thought it would be fun to have some music of the spheres here.

From the BBC:

Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun's atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say.

These "coronal loops" carry acoustic waves in much the same way that sound is carried through a pipe organ.

Solar explosions called micro-flares generate sound booms which are then propagated along the coronal loops.

Click here to listen to the roaring sounds.

I listened carefully and then went to the piano and tried to reproduce it. As I thought, it was sort of E flat to E major, namely, it has some depth to it, the vibrations are not as clear as a bell or a plucked string but more like the roar of a waterfall. Indeed, describing this irritating noise as 'music' was a big stretch or maybe it sounded like those ghetto boom boxes so beloved by tone deaf kids trying to blast the neighborhood but instead, blasted out their speakers.

From the BBC:

"These loops can be up to 100 million kilometres long and guide waves and oscillations in a similar way to a pipe organ," said Dr Youra Taroyan, from the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) at the University of Sheffield.

The sound booms decay in less than an hour and dissipate in the very hot solar corona.

To make news, people have to kind of stretch the poetry a tad. And in this case, saying the sun's disturbances 'roar' would have a lot less impact than 'music like a church organ.' I looked up some other E flat information just for fun. So while reading this, we can listen to Beethoven's E flat Symphony #3

From Wikipedia:

E flat major is often associated with bold, heroic music, in part because of Beethoven's usage. His Eroica Symphony and his Emperor Concerto are both in this key.

Another reason is that it is a very good key for brass instruments (valveless 19th-century brass instruments specifically constructed to sound in this key were found to produce the most satisfying tone color). Thus, three of Mozart's completed horn concerti and Joseph Haydn's famous Trumpet Concerto are in E flat major, and so is Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony with its prominent horn theme in the first movement. Another famous heroic piece in the key of E flat major is Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life).

Listening to the sun heroically roaring was truly soul-lifting. The hero rises! Or rather, bellows into our ears. The sun's choice of pitch is also magical and inspirational.

From the Masons:

Such was the Masonic milieu when Wolfgang Mozart became a Master Mason.He must have been greatly moved and inspired by his experience. Almost immediately he composed his Freemason's Funeral Music and his music for the opening and closing of a Lodge. He now composed his opera, Don Giovanni, and his three great symphonies - the E flat, the G minor and the C major, as well as a great number of concertos and chamber-music works.

His last great opera, The Magic Flute, opened in Vienna on the evening of September 30, 1791. Mozart conducted the first two performances, when he was overtaken by his last illness. He lingered on while the opera had an unprecedented run of more than one hundred consecutive performances. It is said that in his sick bed, watch in hand, he would follow in imagination the performance of The Magic Flute in the theatre. Then he died after its 67th performance.

Well, so we now can worry about the sun being part of the Masonic conspiracy? Yes, they have the sun's rays on that pyramid with the eyeball on our dollar bills. The Japanese flag is the rising sun. Sunday is the day Christians go to Church! Sundaes are icecream dishes that make you very fat and are too tempting! Yes, this is leading to something big...

From NASA:

A truly enormous collection of thousands of galaxies, the Perseus Cluster - like other large galaxy clusters - is filled with hot, x-ray emitting gas. The x-ray hot gas (not the individual galaxies) appears in the left panel above, a false color image from the Chandra Observatory. The bright central source flanked by two dark cavities is the cluster's supermassive black hole. At right, the panel shows the x-ray image data specially processed to enhance contrasts and reveals a strikingly regular pattern of pressure waves rippling through the hot gas. In other words, sound waves, likely generated by bursts of activity from the black hole, are ringing through the Perseus Galaxy Cluster. Astronomers infer that these previously unknown sound waves are a source of energy which keeps the cluster gas so hot. So what note is the Perseus Cluster playing? Estimates of the distance between the wave peaks and sound speed in the cluster gas suggests the cosmic note is about 57 octaves below B-flat above middle C.

So, black holes are B flat. This sound is not noble, it is a 'splat' sound. Squish. Oozing in the lower registers, so deep in sound in this case, only creatures with special ears can hear it. Like elephants who make very deep noises far away from each other and we can't hear it nearly at all but their huge ears can and then there are whales who can hear very deep sounds from across the Pacific Ocean, watery pulsations.

From NPR:

During World War II, the New York Philharmonic was visiting the American Museum of Natural History. During rehearsal, somebody played a note that upset a resident live alligator named Oscar. Oscar, who'd been in the museum on 81st Street, suddenly began to bellow. Naturally, with so many scientists in residence, an experiment was quickly devised to see how to get Oscar to bellow again. Various musicians — string, percussive and brass — were brought to Oscar to play various notes. It turned out the culprit was B flat, one octave below middle C.

Alligators and probably Tyrannosaurus Rexes probably all love B flat. Probably they roar along because it is a love song to them or maybe a challenge to a duel. Certainly, I would not suggest going back in time and blowing a horn at B flat in the Jurassic era.

Click here to listen to an NPR story about a magical stairwell which harmonizes with B flat and echoes it for whole minutes after someone hums in B flat!

One big tuning fork! I would love to visit that place just to fool around. When we were young, we would go into the various observatories when no one was around to be bothered and would try to discover which pitches echoed the best. Naturally, we would yell, 'Pinnochio!' in these different pitches, being enamoured by the cartoon's whale. No wonder we would get ejected. Heh.

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