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Arthur T.
Jun 21, 2016, 8:30:54 PM6/21/16
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You might remember some years back when scientists said that a
black hole was ringing like a bell 57 octaves down. Now they've
found something on Earth whistling 30 octaves down:
http://gizmodo.com/an-unearthly-sound-is-emanating-from-the-caribbean-sea-1782359344
At the time, I filked the black hole. I expect to leave the
whistling Caribbean for someone else. Though I might not have if
"whistling Caribbean" scanned better to "whistling Gypsy rover".
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Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
black hole was ringing like a bell 57 octaves down. Now they've
found something on Earth whistling 30 octaves down:
http://gizmodo.com/an-unearthly-sound-is-emanating-from-the-caribbean-sea-1782359344
At the time, I filked the black hole. I expect to leave the
whistling Caribbean for someone else. Though I might not have if
"whistling Caribbean" scanned better to "whistling Gypsy rover".
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Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
Rich Brown
Jun 21, 2016, 9:29:31 PM6/21/16
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There's an A, flattened A, there's an A 30 octaves under C.
Arthur T.
Jun 21, 2016, 9:47:41 PM6/21/16
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In Message-ID:<nkcplq$rgg$1...@dont-email.me>,
There's an A 30 octaves under the C.
Rich Brown <rab...@freemars.org> wrote:
>There's an A, flattened A, there's an A 30 octaves under C.
Under the sea, under the sea
>There's an A, flattened A, there's an A 30 octaves under C.
There's an A 30 octaves under the C.
Mark Mandel
Jun 22, 2016, 1:59:44 PM6/22/16
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It does! The name has two pronunciations, Ca-RIB-be-an and Ca-rib-BE-an, cf. Gyp-sy RO-ver. In the classic 1948 movie <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate>The Pirate</a>, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, Garland has a dazzling number "Mack the Black" (<a href=https://youtu.be/lJWTRK2yObU>YouTube 5:04</a>), in which a line repeated several times is "On the Ca-rib-BE-an or Ca-RIB-be-an Sea"'. Watch the number, it's great. In fact, watch the whole movie if you can.
Mark Mandel
"The Filker with no Nickname"
Mark Mandel
"The Filker with no Nickname"
Gary McGath
Jun 22, 2016, 7:23:05 PM6/22/16
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On 6/22/16 1:59 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> It does! The name has two pronunciations, Ca-RIB-be-an and Ca-rib-BE-an, cf. Gyp-sy RO-ver. In the classic 1948 movie <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate>The Pirate</a>, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, Garland has a dazzling number "Mack the Black" (<a href=https://youtu.be/lJWTRK2yObU>YouTube 5:04</a>), in which a line repeated several times is "On the Ca-rib-BE-an or Ca-RIB-be-an Sea"'. Watch the number, it's great. In fact, watch the whole movie if you can.
>
McKoko the Pirate???
> It does! The name has two pronunciations, Ca-RIB-be-an and Ca-rib-BE-an, cf. Gyp-sy RO-ver. In the classic 1948 movie <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate>The Pirate</a>, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, Garland has a dazzling number "Mack the Black" (<a href=https://youtu.be/lJWTRK2yObU>YouTube 5:04</a>), in which a line repeated several times is "On the Ca-rib-BE-an or Ca-RIB-be-an Sea"'. Watch the number, it's great. In fact, watch the whole movie if you can.
>
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Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
Arthur T.
Jun 27, 2016, 9:51:15 PM6/27/16
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>There's an A, flattened A, there's an A 30 octaves under C.
Thank you, I think. I don't know if I'll finish, but I have a
start on a filk to the tune of "Under the Sea". If you beat me to
it, you could save me a lot of work...
Arthur T.
Jun 28, 2016, 11:37:27 PM6/28/16
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In Message-ID:<veljmb1dbf9cqcs4b...@4ax.com>,
bottom of a piano". My research and arithmetic show that a frequency
of 1/(120 days) is about 28 octaves below the bottom of a piano,
about 32 octaves below a 440 A, and ~31.34 octaves below middle C.
It's of course possible that my research, my calculations, or my
assumption (the wave takes 120 days, so the frequency should be
1/(120 days)) are wrong.
Arthur T. <art...@munged.invalid> wrote:
> You might remember some years back when scientists said that a
>black hole was ringing like a bell 57 octaves down. Now they've
>found something on Earth whistling 30 octaves down:
>http://gizmodo.com/an-unearthly-sound-is-emanating-from-the-caribbean-sea-1782359344
The article says the sound is "roughly 30 octaves below the
> You might remember some years back when scientists said that a
>black hole was ringing like a bell 57 octaves down. Now they've
>found something on Earth whistling 30 octaves down:
>http://gizmodo.com/an-unearthly-sound-is-emanating-from-the-caribbean-sea-1782359344
bottom of a piano". My research and arithmetic show that a frequency
of 1/(120 days) is about 28 octaves below the bottom of a piano,
about 32 octaves below a 440 A, and ~31.34 octaves below middle C.
It's of course possible that my research, my calculations, or my
assumption (the wave takes 120 days, so the frequency should be
1/(120 days)) are wrong.
Mark Mandel
Jun 29, 2016, 8:03:37 PM6/29/16
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440Hz / 2^32 = 440 / 4,294,967,296 ~=
1.02e-7 = 102e-9 = 102nHz
60² sec/hr * 24 hrs/day = 86,400 sec/day
n sec = 1/n Hz (In this line, n is a variable, not the prefix "nano-".)
120 days * 86,400 sec/day = 10,368,000 sec ~= 10.37e6 sec
1 / 10.37e6 sec ~= 9.65e-8 Hz = 96.5nHz
102 - 96.5 = 5.5
5.5 / 102 ~= 0.054 = 5.4% =
Close enough for filk!
Mark Mandel
1.02e-7 = 102e-9 = 102nHz
60² sec/hr * 24 hrs/day = 86,400 sec/day
n sec = 1/n Hz (In this line, n is a variable, not the prefix "nano-".)
120 days * 86,400 sec/day = 10,368,000 sec ~= 10.37e6 sec
1 / 10.37e6 sec ~= 9.65e-8 Hz = 96.5nHz
102 - 96.5 = 5.5
5.5 / 102 ~= 0.054 = 5.4% =
Close enough for filk!
Mark Mandel
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