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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: a cosmic foghorn #111987 09/13/03 06:04 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Faldage and Rhubarb Commando can play a mean walking stick. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a cosmic foghorn #111988 09/15/03 12:45 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Faldage and Rhubarb Commando can play a mean walking stick. Yeah. When it didn't like what they were doing, it beat them over the heads with itself. It was that much of a critic/maschoist. Now that's what I call mean ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a cosmic foghorn #111989 09/15/03 01:50 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Pfranz! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a cosmic foghorn #111990 09/17/03 10:24 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Can one of the many physicists here splain me how 57 octaves traslates into a billion, er, decibels, I presume? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a cosmic foghorn #111991 09/17/03 10:59 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu OP Carpal Tunnel OP Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont umm, octaves don't got necessarily anything to do with decibels. do you want to try again? I'm not sure what you're askin'... 57 octaves below just means it's real low. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a cosmic foghorn #111992 09/17/03 11:27 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Well, I was just quoting a quote. After the storm hits, I'll try to elucidate. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a cosmic foghorn #111993 09/17/03 11:55 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu OP Carpal Tunnel OP Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont ah, Anna, I found this in the article: With a frequency over a million, billion times deeper than the limits of human hearing, it is the deepest note ever detected from an object in the Universe. is this what you're wondering about? an octave lower would be half the frequency of the octave above, so, for example, if middle Bb is around 200cps(cycles per second) then the octave below that is 100 cps, and the one below that is 50cps, and the one below that is 25cps, and now were down to the lower limits of human hearing, and we're only down three octaves. continue the pattern and it gets down to tiny little slices(or huge ones, if you think about it that way), where it takes millions of years just to oscillate once. pretty crazy. if that's not what you're asking, at least it helped me begin to fathom it! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a cosmic foghorn #111994 09/18/03 02:09 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky fathom it--groan-nn! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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