The ‘Bloop’ mystery solved

http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/11/the-bloop-mystery-solved/

by paulgerhardt • 14 years ago

126 36 14 years ago

parfe• 14 years ago

A lot of the wild speculation regarding the bloop stemmed from the ultra low frequency audio being sped up 16x to be audible to the human ear.

mertd• 14 years ago

I was more fascinated by the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCw16_Yxid0). Interesting part starts at 45s.

__david__• 14 years ago

Most of that sound is caused by artifacts of slowing the bloop down but keeping it in audible frequencies.

Here's a more realistic version of the sound and a rationale of how it was made (needs a sub-woofer or some decent headphones to actually hear it): http://porkrind.org/missives/the-bloop/

eshvk2• 14 years ago

I confess to be slightly disappointed at this. Although there was speculation that this was indeed iceberg related, there was also speculation that possibly a living creature could be the source of this. Sad to say this but it appears that the age of discovering large animals is long past us.

swordswinger12• 14 years ago

Don't be so sure - the first pictures of a live giant squid are only around a decade old. The ocean is deep and dark.

ZanderEarth32• 14 years ago

Very true. Apparently we've only explored 5%, leaving 95% for a giant something to be living. It would be a sad day to realize there is nothing left to be discovered. Even at an older age I still find it fascinating and exciting to think there is something unknown, mystical and possibly magical in this world.

[1]http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html

mupster• 14 years ago

Hmm....any chance this is mere misdirection by our future live giant squid overlords? (jk)

brazzy2• 14 years ago

It's also rather starved of energy sources - not the ideal environment for large organisms.

I'm sure there are hundreds or even thousands of bizarre and interesting species to be discovered, but the likelihood that any of them will be impressively large is very slim.

Anon842• 14 years ago

Well... a new whale species has just been found... http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-rar...

dhughes• 14 years ago

For some reason that reminded me of the climatic (pun?) scene where the bad guys' undersea under ice lair blows up and the ice falls down to the ocean floor facepalm

ohashi• 14 years ago

Ah, you watched GI Joe too.

pyre• 14 years ago

Well, the base was man-made, who says that the ice wasn't?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water

;-)

skrebbel• 14 years ago

That must've been one of the best scenes I've seen in a movie. Or, well, until Battleship.

marknutter• 14 years ago

It's never a giant squid <kicks the dirt>

Cthulhu_• 14 years ago

Squid? Cthulhu.

neonshot• 14 years ago

Release the Kraken!

Anon842• 14 years ago

That's what they want you to think </conspiracy>

cyanbane• 14 years ago

I don't believe it was anything crazy and that I believe that there is probably a common answer for what this was, but I am amazed at the HN comments so far that take this post for certification of an idea.

gosub• 14 years ago

I semi-seriously think then someone got the idea for the 'solution' from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cRyd4LpJo

atlantic• 14 years ago

My theory is, it was a weather balloon.

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