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Subject: Re: Need : ultra-miniature microphones
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Wed May 6, 2009 9:06 am ((PDT))
Even viruses have been recorded, Thomas. The info can be found in a
paper by Matthew Cooper titled
DIRECT AND SENSITIVE DETECTION OF A HUMAN VIRUS BY RUPTURE EVENT
SCANNING. It can be found at
http://biotech.nature.com It was published in the Sept 2001, Vol 19
issue.

Bernie


On May 6, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:

>
>
> Dear Nature Recordists,
>
> Just some thoughts for you folks. I am just tossing this out to the
> list as a possible idea provoker and perhaps a sonic challenge to
> inventors:
> .
> I am generating and amassing a vast archive of microbe videos from
> explorations of protozoa/metazoa/bacteria/ and other microorganisms
> that
> inhabit my rain barrel wilderness. My ongoing question is: What are
> the
> soundtracks for my videos? Nobody seems to have invented microphones
> with the capability of capturing the sound of, for example; Rotifer
> cilia whirling, or collisions of Paramecia with Euglenoids, or the
> thrashings of a Nematode.
> .
> Nature recordists work in too narrow of a slice of the sonic spectrum.
> How about some innovations/inventions that expand the range into the
> realm of microbes, or, that translate microbial motions into the human
> range of hearing?
> .
>
> Thomas Ashcraft / New Mexico
> www.heliotown.com
>
>
>

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