Creepy "Predator" like sound detected coming from Rosetta's Comet (audio)

The Rosetta spacecraft and its Philae lander have a lot to teach scientists about what Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko looks like, is composed of, and even what it smells like, but what does the comet sound like? The day before Philae made history by landing on the surface of the comet, ESA released an audio clip of 67P/C-G singing. Unfortunately, its song is creepy as hell and sounds a lot like Predator, the alien that tried to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Of course, sound waves can’t travel through space, so it isn’t a direct audio recording. Instead, Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) picked up variations in the magnetic field around the comet, due to interactions between 67P/C-G’s coma and the plasma from the Sun, better known as solar wind. These variations resulted in frequencies between 40 to 50 millihertz, about 10,000 times lower than can be detected by humans. ESA scientists altered the frequency of the comet’s song into human hearing range, and discovered it was a series of clicks that are very reminiscent of Predator’s growl.

RPC scientists first picked up on these fluctuations in August as Rosetta approached the comet, but it isn’t entirely clear what is causing them.


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New Jersey UFO was fast moving 'cloaked triangle'

A New Jersey witness traveling along Route 322 in Atlantic County reports briefly watching a fast-moving object described as a "cloaked triangle," according to December 15, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

"I saw some distance ahead of me a moving distortion in the (fairly solid and darkish) clouds that appeared as a very fast large 'cloaked' triangle shape moving at high speed," the witness stated. "It appeared several times larger than I would expect a passenger jet to appear at that distance. I was traveling east to west; the distortion moved from north to south."

The object was seen for about two seconds.

"It was like there was a 'cloaked', large triangular 'flying wing' turned on its side. Think of the distortion of the jungle in the movie "Predator" when the alien moved while cloaked. That is how a part of the clouds looked."

The witness is curious about what was seen.

Source: Examiner.com