NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery

[KG4KWW]

Could the sound(s) heard be tranmissions from a distant world??

Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected.


The finding comes from a balloon-borne instrument named ARCADE, which stands for the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission. In July 2006, the instrument launched from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, and flew to an altitude of 120,000 feet, where the atmosphere thins into the vacuum of space.

NASA NEWS LINK (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2009/arcade_balloon.html)

[N7RJD]

If NASA has balloons why are there never zero gravity water balloon fights on the space shuttle or are there and they just want to keep the fun to themselves?

[KI2Y]

They tried that with the monkeys. Things kinda got out of hand.

Wasn't pretty. :(

[N7RJD]

They tried that with the monkeys. Things kinda got out of hand.

Wasn't pretty. :(

It's not about pretty, it's about funny. I bet it was funny.

[KG4CGC]

Is there an .mp3 file of the sound?
I'd like t6o hear that.

[W4MAJ]

It's Marvin the Martian and his illegal 11 meter linear amplifier.

Where is Riley Hollingsworth??

[K8ERV]

Is there an .mp3 file of the sound?
I'd like t6o hear that.

Just tune your FM radio between channels and turn up the volume. That is exactly what it will sound llike, and cheaper too---

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[KB9OFM]

With those vacuums in space that greg is talking about,
it could be why conditions are so bad.They are sucking up
all the sun spots and radio signals and everything else.
At least that is a good of reason as any as to why we are
being punished with bad conditions.

dennis/kb9ofm

[N8YX]

Extraterrestrials are getting in on all the 'SuperBowl' (CH6) CB action. :D

[AD5MB]

With those vacuums in space that greg is talking about

The sun is the filament

Mercury is the plate

Venus, Earth, Mars are in the way

The asteroid belt is the grid

Saturn is the plate...

[KG4CGC]

Just tune your FM radio between channels and turn up the volume. That is exactly what it will sound llike, and cheaper too---

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

I don't think Vanna would approve.

[KG4KWW]

dennis/kb9ofm if the people on the Zed would repent for their evil ways they might get blessed with good band conditions.

I too would like to haer this sound. Nasa didn't have a sound file link posted.

[N7RJD]

dennis/kb9ofm if the people on the Zed would repent for the evil ways they might get blessed with good band conditions.

I too would like to haer this sound. Nasa didn't have a sound file link posted.

FYI, it's more likely that if people would rejoice in their evil ways they would be blessed with good band conditions. Solar activity has to do with fire which is controlled by the man downstairs.

[NC5P]

Back in the early nineties I spent a lot of time at Palestine working on those balloons. They are huge, you can see them around sunset from a very long way off. They also launch quite a few at their remote site in Ft. Sumner, NM and in Antarctica.

[W5HTW]

No matter how many times they launch the balloons from Ft. Sumner, the TV stations are deluged with UFO reports at every sighting. In our clear air, with virtually no pollution, the balloons look moderate in size and to be at low altitudes. I have watched these balloons for years. At 120,000 feet up, they look like that just can't be over two miles away! But they are huge, really huge, 960 feet tall, 640 feet in diameter.

Because of their altitude they can be seen long after sunset, as the sun is still shining brightly on them up there. So, there go the UFO reports.

Used to be NASA launched them about twice a year from Ft. Sumner, but I have seen them more frequently some years. Back in the 1990s they cost about 3.5 million bucks to launch, a lot cheapter than a rocket.