April 2, 2010
Nature needs straws too…
PlayGuest question by GQHero Logik.
In the audio clip you can listen to some routine activity. The sound has been post processed to bring it down to the human audible frequency range.
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Id this activity.
To help matters, this sound can be detected/recorded using instruments of the kind shown in the image. This instrument has seen military applications as well, mostly for detecting sounds in its niche domain. Id the instrument.
Super-toughie, seemingly cracked _only_ by Rogi! Great job, sir!
Check out logik’s comment for the answer!.
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Some sort of Dolphin sound, may be Dolphins clicking.
The sound is trees cells in trees xylem and phloem popping trying to suck water from the ground and the instrument is a Reson model TC4014 hydrophone.
Activity:
This is the sound of the fluid movement of the Xylem and Phloem. the vascular system of trees.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010.....berni.html
Instrument:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophone
Could the sound be described as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_sucking_sound
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ultrasound scope
Probe Microphone.
Application of the probe microphone method to measure attenuation of hearing protectors against high impulse sound levels. So the sound might be what happens in normal ears when a high decibel explosion happens
http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/as.....rs/o47.pdf
Bat ‘hockey stick’ calls
Geiger Muller Counter
and the activity is Radioactivity
it’s a probe mic, i have NO frikking idea what that sound is…
the sound of me scratching myself… i’ll go with that
i’d like to change my first wrong answer for this one, which is also probably wrong, copy pasted from some pdf file
application of probe mic method to measure attenuation of hearing protectors against high impulse sound levels