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Put horror movies and games aside for a few minutes to listen to something truly unsettling this Halloween season. The European Space Agency has released audio of what our planet’s magnetic field sounds like. While it protects us from cosmic radiation and charged particles from solar winds, it turns out that the magnetic field has an unnerving rumble.
You can’t exactly point a microphone at the sky and hear the magnetic field (nor can we see it). Scientists from the Technical University of Denmark converted data collected by the ESA’s three Swarm satellites into sound, representing both the magnetic field and a solar storm.
The ethereal audio reminds me of wooden wind chimes rattling as a mass of land shifts, perhaps during an earthquake. It brings to mind the cracking sounds of a moving glacier as well. You might get something different out of the five-minute clip.
“The team used data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, as well as other sources, and used these magnetic signals to manipulate and control a sonic representation of the core field. The project has certainly been a rewarding exercise in bringing art and science together,” the university’s Klaus Nielsen, a musician and supporter of the project, said. “The rumbling of Earth’s magnetic field is accompanied by a representation of a geomagnetic storm that resulted from a solar flare on November 3rd, 2011, and indeed it sounds pretty scary.”
If you happen to visit Solbjerg Square in Copenhagen this week, you may be able to immerse yourself in the magnetic field’s low rumble. More than 30 loudspeakers are pointed at the ground there. They’ll broadcast the audio three times daily until October 30th. “We have set it up so that each speaker represents a different location on Earth and demonstrates how our magnetic field has fluctuated over the last 100,000 years,” Nielsen said.
This isn’t the first time researchers have turned data from otherwise silent forces into sound. Last year, NASA released an audio representation of magnetic field activity around Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. More recently, we got to hear a terrifying depiction of what a black hole sounds like.
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Do you like first-person games where you operate complex machinery by manually typing commands into computers and fiddling with buttons and switches and gadgets? Check out the demo for Voices Of The Void, an upcoming game about running a space radio telescope array. Alone. In the woods. It has a pleasing manual process to find, target, and analyse signals, and a whole complex of servers and machinery to mantain. Plus, y’know, a whole feeling of creeping dread from gazing into space and wondering if anyone is looking back.
EA and Motive have provided full game details for Dead Space, the remake of the sci-fi survival horror classic, accompanied by the first-ever gameplay trailer.
While remaining true to the original game’s vision, Motive has completely rebuilt the game from the ground up in the Frostbite game engine. This time out, players will find there’s more to learn aboard the USG Ishimura as they relive the story with newly added narrative elements.
Along with the new narrative elements, Dead Space will also include gameplay improvements including such as the Peeling System. With it, Necromorphs have been reconstructed and will feature layered flesh, tendons and bones that break, tear and shatter.
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