Singing Iceberg.

Alex
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener's Institute for polar research had captured the sounds made by a colliding iceberg.

" Tracking the signal, the scientists found a 50 by 20 kilometer iceberg that had collided with an underwater peninsula and was slowly scraping around it.

'Once the iceberg stuck fast on the seabed it was like a rock in a river,' said scientist Vera Schlindwein. 'The water pushes through its crevasses and tunnels at high pressure and the iceberg starts singing.' "

The MP3 is speeded up to make the sounds audible to humans.

Link: Ice Harmonies | MP3 File (via WFMU Beware of the Blog)


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I was pointing out the absurdity of thinking anything is out there picking and choosing our fates, and how pretentious it is to think
oneself has somehow fell under the good graces of an imaginary sky god with the assumption that some poor sap has somehow not gotten the golden ticket in life. "But for the grace of god goes I" is equivalent to saying "Sucks to be you." It's a snotty egocentric saying. I don't think it was the writers intention to sound that way, but it comes across that way.
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