<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Whaddaya mean no "sound in a vacuum"? Haven't you seen enough science-fiction movies to know that spaceships make a LOT of noise? (As they do in "The Life of Brian"?) <br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Sound in a vacuum? No. But this
was talking about sound in <br>
gas jets which presumably had some pressure, or they wouldn't <br>
be -- jetting. <br>
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Still sounds seriously weird, of course. But black holes <br>
themselves are more than slightly weird. <br>
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I think what we are seeing is a statement about extremely <br>
arcane scientific observations, which got dumbed down for <br>
the great unwashed -- aka, US. <br>
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<pre>Sorry about the extraneous gobbledy-gook. Corrected below …
~Mark Schecter
On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Mark Schecter <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:mark@schecterpiano.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return"><mark@schecterpiano.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>That "sounds" like a cross between a crocodile and an abalone.
AKA a crock o' baloney.
Sound in space? No …
On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Noah Frere <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:noahfrere@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return"><noahfrere@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>"Repeated outbursts in the form of powerful jets from the black hole in the center of Perseus created giant cavities and produced sound waves with an incredibly deep B-flat note 57 octaves below middle C, which, in turn, keeps the gas hot."
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