This is just strange. This just recently appeared on /. and you find some discussion there. Apparently there will be a webcast as well.
Maybe May 4th will be a slow night on TV and you will want to participate in what I can only categorize as weird science.
Sky Ear will be a one-night event in which a glowing "cloud" of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sky.The cloud will be made of one thousand large helium balloons each responding to the electromagnetic environment (created by distant storms, mobile phones, police and ambulance radios, television broadcasts, etc.) with coloured blue, red and yellow lights.
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Methinks that the most like... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Jim | April 10, 2004 7:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Methinks that the most likely things you'll hear are cell phones ringing.
1. Posted by Jim | April 10, 2004 7:59 PM |
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Posted on April 10, 2004 19:59
2. Posted by marry | April 10, 2004 11:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
> Methinks that the most likely things you'll hear are cell phones ringing
eheheh... or just the wind ;)
2. Posted by marry | April 10, 2004 11:10 PM |
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Posted on April 10, 2004 23:10
3. Posted by Mark J | April 10, 2004 11:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I really hope someone brings a BB gun...
3. Posted by Mark J | April 10, 2004 11:35 PM |
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Posted on April 10, 2004 23:35
4. Posted by Rodney Dill | April 11, 2004 9:12 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Can you hear me now?"
4. Posted by Rodney Dill | April 11, 2004 9:12 AM |
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Posted on April 11, 2004 09:12
5. Posted by Jonathan | April 12, 2004 1:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'll be there! I'm intrigued with the notion that the balloons will change colour as they rise from the ground in response to changes in electromagnetic radiation around them. Will they be sensitive to radiation per se or simply that detected by the phones linked to the balloons?
5. Posted by Jonathan | April 12, 2004 1:49 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2004 13:49