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Re: Even viruses make sound

Subject: Re: Even viruses make sound
From: "Kevin Colver" kjcolver
Date: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:13 pm ((PST))
Thomas,
Not off topic at all, what an interesting nature recording!  There is  
a very musical quality to the sounds.  Can you share with us how these  
sounds are captured and recorded?
Kevin Colver


On Dec 14, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:

> Bernie Krause wrote:
> > Every organism produces some kind of sound signature, Thomas. Even
> > bacteria, protozoa, and metazoa.
> > There is also an article referring to the sound signature of human
> > viruses detected by rupture event scanning.
> >
>
> Bernie and all,
>
> Yes, interesting that all things have sound signatures - and complex
> vibrations. In my work I am also thinking of the general sonic matrix
> of the micro-realms.
>
> But on the above suggestion that "even viruses make sound" let me  
> segue
> to another of my primary nature recording endeavors. I am also a long
> term recorder of space dust and meteor and fireball phenomena using a
> radio astronomy method called the forward scatter method. I record  
> space
> dust infall 24 hours a day and maintain spectrograms that are of use  
> to
> the astronomy community. I also maintain a daily archive of fireball
> movie receptions at:
> http://www.heliotown.com/Ashcrafts_Fireball_Archive.html
>
> As a high ionosphere recordist I am also open to the possibility of
> biological aspects of space dust infall in regards to panspermia
> concepts and the possibility of microbial life in outer space. It is
> possible that biological spores and possible viral-type organisms may
> inhabit outer space and that there is interplay through the permeable
> upper Earth atmospheres. Though this has not been proven as yet.
> .
> The past few days Earth has been passing through specific debris  
> fields
> of asteroid particles shed from asteroid Phaeton 3200 which is the
> origin of the Geminid meteor shower. I think that each meteor shower,
> which are usually usually from comets, has a signature in its dust,
> whatever its specific dust might be composed of.
> .
> It is too much to write about here but I posted an extended  
> recording of
> the five minutes of the Geminid shower here:
> http://www.heliotown.com/Dust/Geminids.html
> I think the Geminid meteor shower may exhibit certain qualities of  
> "ebb
> and flow" that are distinct from other meteor showers. Perhaps the
> answer to this is in the spectrographic data and recordings.
> .
> I know my interests are slightly "off-topic" here as this is a
> microphone recording based list but thank you for indulging my  
> esoteric
> nature recording interests.
>
> Thomas Ashcraft
> New Mexico
>
> PS : For Eric : I am using the term "blebbing" in this case to  
> define a
> cell wall rupture bubble. I may not be exact in this particular  
> meaning.
>
> 







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