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Off Topic Live now. Is there life on Mars?

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Baldrick's Cunning Plan, Feb 18, 2021.

  1. Mr Hatem

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    Have they taken a Slim Whitman CD with them? Just to be on the safe side...
     
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    Did you see the Video feed of the landing . ???
     
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    Has it just been on ?
     
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    They just played the first sound recording of mars ... eerily quiet (well you wouldnt expect anything else) ... and a gust of wind or two
     
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    Didn't the get some sounds from it back in 2018?
     
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    That's processed from a seismometer, the sounds from Perseverance are the first audio recording.
     
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    That's some good High Res Pictures I've got to say :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    Take your point, but even the recording is 'processed' by definition.
     
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    Seismometers measure frequencies in solids ground motion (quakes, volcanic activity), audio is measuring in liquids and primarily in gases which fit the human hearing frequencies.
    Same principal, different mediums. As you say, all processed one way of another.
     
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    If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound?

    No, it vibrates the air, it needs an ear to covert those vibrations to sound and a brain to comprehend them.

    What is an ear? Is it a seismograph? Is it a microphone? Is it a speaker? Is it a human ear? Is anything real?

    I believe the frequencies recorded by the seismometer had to be sped up and increased in magnitude to create a sound that the human ear can even register.
     
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    That's what I thought :emoticon-0114-dull:
     
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    The ESA probe lands next December I believe ?
     
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    I can't resist...

     
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