How Earth Sounds from Space

A NOTE TO EVERYONE POSTING HERE!
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OK, first of all I had no idea this video was going to be this popular. Pretty exciting stuff. Anyways, there's alot of arguing on here about sound in space. Obviously sound needs a medium to pass through, to vibrate through so that it can carry the sound waves. Space has no air, and therefore cannot project sound in audible wave form. As it says in the description, these sounds are not from satellites zooming around the earth with a normal microphone. Sohpisticated instruments can detect the different sonic vibrations going on in the planet GENERALLY. So what you are hearing is not what it would be like if you just stuck an ear out the window of a space ship. First of all you would probably either die or go deaf in that ear for the rest of your life because of the pressure of the vaccum. What the remote sensors on the sattellite are doing is analyzing different radio frequencies coming off the surface of the earth and converting it into audible soundwaves for you and I to hear. So you're not hearing whales, you're not hearing cars or even wind. You're merely hearing the general frequencies of the Earth in an audible format.

here's where i got the sound file
http://www.inner-net.com/bmr/bmrpg2aa.html


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• space
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[ubergoofball]

We're noisy.

[LSon20]

Sounds like a Justin Bieber concert

[djfeas001]

This is the kind of senseless noise that erupts from thinking.

Silence is more than golden.

[Lellebelleke89]

@LSon20

This sounds better than a Justin Bieber concert! ;-)

[smitske18]

Sound travels in waves like light or heat does, but unlike them, sound travels by making molecules vibrate. So, in order for sound to travel, there has to be something with molecules for it to travel through. On Earth, sound travels to your ears by vibrating air molecules. In deep space, the large empty areas between stars and planets, there are NO molecules to vibrate. There is NO sound there.

[MITexersize]

Wrong. Space is a vacuum which does not absorb sound. It would in reality theoretically be literally completely silent from space

[TeknikAlity34]

Sounds kinda creepy. Space in general sounds kinda creepy.

[LunasaDream]

@LSon20 LMAO I love your comment :P

[OURTIMEISNOW2009]

Thats all of earth throwing up from having to listen to Lady Gag Gag

[Griffsta1984]

Sounds like nas car

[LeopardGeckoProject]

@oOTheMastaOo240 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Calebm90]

Someone tell Earth to turn off their phaser