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                            Susan Kline &lt;skline@peak.org&gt;;                            <br>
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                            Re: [pianotech] That's a long piano string                            <br>
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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&#39;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">&lt;mark@schecterpiano.com&gt;</a> wrote:

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    <pre>That &quot;sounds&quot; like a cross between a crocodile and an abalone. 

AKA a crock o&#39; 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">&lt;noahfrere@gmail.com&gt;</a> wrote:

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      <pre>&quot;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.&quot;
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