Singing sand dunes

[MumblingMickey]

hmmm... I wonder if this might be a better explanation for the 'hum' in Taos, New Mexico.... well its either that or the 'other' explanation of aliens, ghosts, magic and secret government conspiracies...

So on one side is the science explanation, which demonstrates its findings... and on the other bat shit crazy explanations based on nothing by uneducated townsfolk superstitions...

hmmm... its so hard to decide...

[paradix]

Imagine all the sand in their vaginas after doing all that science.

[Brandonjnapier]

... why are they "hicking" up the hills...??? These guys should take a drive past Gordon's Well on I-8 and they might see there is a better way of getting up big sand dunes..

[RedDoTBMX]

lol i ride my drag banshee there and i never herd that sound

[Pyr01]

same ass holes that ruin magic tricks

[Frejalise]

@Pyr01 That's what scientists do.

[15iiii]

6:05 looks like running waves of water!

[koolaid450R]

our dunes don't sing they just sound like loud atvs and dirtbikes

[rccarsman87]

i doent hear shit.are they crazy

[Run3scaped]

cool story bro's

[6613268]

If that's the hottest place on earth that could be Satan (the devil) trying to come out on earth duh.

[Me1pucca]

Sounds like a magical place. I wonder if musicians go to deserts to hear sand dunes humming like in this video.

[kbsrh]

why didn't the nerds ride some honda 450s up instead of walking they are crazy

[Theditor]

it's just sandworms. Duh.

[aienatu]

Is Levar Burton narrating this? seriously!

[xCEOLINx]

Sand crammed in the ass and crotch...FOR SCIENCE!!

[mrmong]

this probably fuelled superstition and religious mythology for thousands of years.

[laget]

who gives a fuck

[saraswati666]

This is an interesting topic, but the narrator sounds like a whiny fag, which makes it painful to watch after a while.

[caseytorn]

Wow they look like retards sliding their asses down that sand dune, why not set off 5-6 depth charges lined across the top of an insanely high dune. I bet my dick would be singing, at the very least.

[laget]

LOL. haha wtf this is obviously fake, sand can't sing it doesn't even have a mouth haha fucking noobs!!!!!!

[Shath00]

@laget fail troll.

[laget]

@Shath00

why do you use a fullstop when you don't even capitalize the start of you're sentences.

[Shath00]

@laget you don't either.

[wordupwhitey]

very cool but i sure hope i didn't help fund the investigation

[coolblade2000]

@wordupwhitey Nope you just fund the innocent killing of afghanistans.

[Zebonka]

Martians

[w4rr1bbons]

i see that the females weren't as excited to get sand in their pants

[bluefeet]

great, very educational!

[narwill42]

2 people were terrified of the monoliths in 2001

[mrKozmoz]

worm signs!

[D1s0wn3d]

Do you know what that sound is, Highness? Those are the shrieking eels! If you don't believe me, just wait. They always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh!

[pooponastick91]

they act like charles darwin was some physics genius

[isoocd]

How much grant cash went into them sliding on their asses?

[x1ayzl3oy144]

Talking about sand in your pants.

[aheisenbug]

ICP would say these scientists are assholes.

[mannhorn34]

I hope you folks cleaned the sand out of the lady's clam's. Don't want to make a pearl.

[DoctorDreyer]

boring!

[schzztzrz]

@DoctorDreyer dear TIL patron, shut the fuck up

[DoctorDreyer]

@schzztzrz dear typical liberal dickhead from reddit, stop trying to trample my freedom of speech!

[kurleyfries93]

@DoctorDreyer Cannot upvote enough

[1337roflmaorofl1337]

Melany and her husband Mike are simply charming.

[Oathblivion]

Gah, now American Idol has even gotten the planet itself all starry eyed. =P

Sorry dunes, but you don't really hold pitch very well.

[francomex]

nice!

[piprell90]

Fascinating~

[cam420]

FAIL! They're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to be smashing up, over, and down the dunes with a sand rail, dirtbike, or quad.

[noonoopoopoo]

Is the narrator gay?

[w13b3]

the scientists sliding down the dunes all think the same

"yay sand between my buttcheeks"

[brieslew]

Thats very interesting. But its obviously aliens. Duh.

[MsLoveGreen]

Woahh

[Kruggy0]

Nice video :) Just learned about this, and this video was quite descriptive.

But if I ever saw four people assracing down a sand dune, my first thought wouldn't exactly be "Oh, look. Scientists."

[gecko116]

Marco Polo thouht the sound was evil sand demons singing

[KatherineFallen]

I am greatly displeased! I am a scholar of Marco Polo, but I can't seem to find any reference to Singing Sands, especially in his description of the Gobi desert. I haven't ripped everything apart yet but this can not staaannndd XD

[Vinc3ntPh4m]

Does religion and science have to fight everytime there is a marvelous wonder of Earth?

[gregasola]

Does the dune get a buzz from its vibration?

Greg Sams,

author of "Sun of gOd", in which grains of sand are discussed, and the free will observed in sub-atomic particles.

[Volcanic9]

It's not really thaat much of a mystery, the sand just has to have certain conditions relate amounts of humitity, silica, and size. It's usually caused by wind and shear stress. Look it up.

[NightHawkRacing]

Very interesting. This further adds to my theory that music in general serves a therapeutic response to the human brain. There are a lot of things that mother nature shows us that we have yet to discover and or interpret. Maybe these sounds serve a purpose for the desert that may take us another century to understand.

[John27346]

Not everything has a purpose.

[darkshad109]

@John27346 Yes everything does...

[John27346]

@darkshad109 That's not true.

The ellipsis at the end of your sentence has no purpose.

;-)

[darkshad109]

@John27346 'An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought, or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence'

I used it as a way to indicate an unfinished thought that would trail off into the silence with me, therefore the ellipsis had two purposes there.

[John27346]

@darkshad109 Yes, And I have just discovered your purpose, which is to spout bull-diarrhea.

[darkshad109]

@John27346 See, everything does have a purpose, now you're getting it!

[John27346]

@darkshad109 So, that means you agree with me that you are a bullshitter.

[darkshad109]

@John27346 Well releasing bull faeces from my mouth isn't possible so there's nothing to agree with is there?

[John27346]

@darkshad109 So you're saying that there's no purpose in calling you a bullshitter.

[darkshad109]

@John27346 It made you feel better about yourself and gave you something to say when you couldn't think of anything clever.

[John27346]

@darkshad109 So you're saying my life has no purpose.

[darkshad109]

@John27346 Almost... But your comments put joy into my life, so there was a reason for your being here.

[John27346]

@darkshad109 Almost?

So you're saying there's no point in absolutes.

[darkshad109]

@John27346 No my comment didn't say anything near that, at least before you would come back with something half decent, now your just getting desperate, don't worry you'll find another purpose in life.

Look forward to another desperate reply for attention.

[John27346]

@darkshad109 But don't we all find a purpose in life? A distraction?

I look forward to your reply to my attention and my attention to your reply.

[LessthanJake14]

@John27346 There's no objective point to life. If we're limited, in this world, to our own perspective, we cannot know anything that isn't just our colouration of reality. As such, how will we ever be objective? The short answer is, we simply cannot.

However, life is still a blank canvas, with 6 billion painters.

[John27346]

@LessthanJake14 You're being ambiguous.

Can you clarify the point you're trying to make, so I can agree or disagree?

[LessthanJake14]

@John27346 How so? I can't exactly define it more concisely than that. There's no universal purpose to life, it's all down to what the individual values in life, what he/she wants. Examples would be: accomplish, learn, better oneself, leave the world a better place, leave a mark et cetera.

So, in that way, life is a blank canvas.

[John27346]

@LessthanJake14 I'm sorry; I was confused by the corny "blank canvas" metaphor.

I agree that life has no inherent purpose.

[LessthanJake14]

@John27346 True, was a little cheesy but why not? Rather a corny and optimistic nihilist than a cliché nihilist.

[NightHawkRacing]

Everything in this earth has an order or a purpose whether you believe it to be scientific or religious. Its is not merely coincidence, but a result of a starting or resulting reaction.

[JoeyGee1000]

Fun way to start an avalanche. I wonder if the women literally have sand in their vaginas.

[gecko116]

@JoeyGee1000 What the heck are you talking about?

[munichlady]

Well, I´m SO glad they could explain,scientifically, Mother Earth simply

playing a symphony to her very idiotic

children.

[triplexxxsatyr]

The NatGeo visual explanation of this phenomenon is better...no disrespect to Nova. Their version of this story has graphics to show the scientists' theories.

[MurderJunkie]

thanx for post, this is good stuff.