The Bloop: NOAA detects unknown animal sound from 3000 miles away...

The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.

The sound, traced to somewhere around 50° S 100° W (South American southwest coast), was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines. According to the NOAA description, it "rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km." According to scientists who have studied the phenomenon it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If the sound did come from an animal, it would reportedly have to be several times the size of the largest known animal on Earth, the Blue Whale.<1>

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


Listen to the "bloop"...
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/bloop.html

Unedited version of the "bloop" (a lot more disturbing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEuaYp_OujM



There is something living deep in the ocean that humans have yet to discover. The shear size of this animal boggles the mind. It's actually pretty frightening if you ask me. :yoiks:

its for the children after all

I'll remain as far away, from whatever horror lies beneath the waves, as physically possible.

It's probably looks something like this...







There are many horrible things I would rather endure than encounter that.

And she said she'd never do it.

Definitely one of her better days. Guess she put on makeup.

no reason to assume it is something that would cause harm.

We always believe that of things we don't understand; I wonder why.

would be more than willing to eat me. Or maybe it will swallow me by accident.

only eat plankton.

Now if it got you confused with plankton, perhaps...

Like the killer whale.

A woman who can quote Godzilla is my fantasy. :rofl:

A super-intelligent unicellular animal of epic proportions.

I for one welcome our new gelatinous, tentacled overlord.

:spray:

Guess whatever it might be, it's content to stay out of sight.

About what? I don't know. Probably trying to figure out a way to enslave all of mankind.

Let's hunt it down and donate it to science.

:eyes: