Once I sat in a field listening to Victor Wooten and whistling along with him. On a fence nearby was I think a brushed shouldered blackbird? Brushed shouldered something. It started singing with me and doing a little dance. Eventually it even started syncopating its part. Like, you could see it waiting for the timing to be just right for each note. On key and everything. Went on for about half an hour.
Birds are cool.
The black hole only knows two songs, tho.
Black Hole Sun and Supermassive Black Hole.
Fun facts: you may actually hear an orbiting black-hole spin if you’re close enough. It’s possible for gravitational waves to reach the same amplitude as sound waves, which would probably cause your eardrum to activate as space contracts and expands past it, so you would “hear” something, but we don’t really know what it would sound like, likely a hum or high-pitched thrumming.
Depending on the size of the black hole (smaller is more likely for this) you may also “see” static in the air, as hawking radiation is emitted by the space around the event horizon. Hawking radiation doesn’t come “out” of a black hole, that would be impossible. Instead, it “appears” in space around the black hole, and as it does, it draws mass off the black hole. For larger black holes this area of hawking radiation could be enormous, millions and millions of miles, and it would be very, very faint. For smaller ones, it may actually throw so much hawking radiation out that it would appear in your retinas at times.
Blackhole: “Hey… You wanna hear the most annoying sound in the universe? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
Unfortunately, it also partially remembers the first verse, and the chorus of Spoonman, but that shit has been stuck in its head for a couple billion years now…
What about Black Hole by Betraying The Martyrs?
Massive, compact astronomical object: “AND WASH AWAY THE RAAAAAAAAAAINNN…”
Good for it. Those are both fantastic songs.
Even 30 years later, Black Hole Sun blows my mind. Chris Cornell’s voice walks this impossible line between sounding so full of emotion that it’s about to burst, and sounding somehow soothing and precise.
That’s not even a line that exists to walk; he creates a line that cannot logically exist, just so his voice can walk it.
It’s all vibes man
Just sayin’
My favourite bird song fact is that parrots (even small ones like budgies) can associate particular sound sequences with specific members of their flocks, including themselves. They can also introduce themselves to each other with those sequences.
If you happen to own a parrot, it most likely has a name in its own language and has told it to you. And it also gave you a name.
This is what AI should be for, finding the patterns and deciphering
thats what a lot of AI is used for, just in different fields.
There’s a fun open source app called WhoBIRD that identifies birds by their calls in real time!
It’s actually really impressive and a lot of fun identifying the local birds. This is a use of learning models I can totally get behind. :D
AI has been and continues to be used for these sorts of things. Generative AI like LLMs and image generators might be getting all the media attention and attract the techbros at the moment, but they are fundamentally inappropriate for this purpose, but other AI machine learning models are making advancements all the time.
The song is ‘Happiness by the kilowatt’ by Alexisonfire.
(Which itself is a reference to ‘The Euphio Question’ by Kurt Vonnegut)
Quran 17:44
تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتُ ٱلسَّبْعُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ ۚ وَإِن مِّن شَىْءٍ إِلَّا يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِۦ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًۭا
“The seven heavens, the earth, and all those in them glorify Him. There is not a single thing that does not glorify His praises—but you cannot comprehend their glorification. He is indeed Most Forbearing, All-Forgiving.”
I am sorry that people reacted so poorly to this. I thought it was beautiful. It is still bothering me, after seeing the reports made on this.
it’s the internet, and this is a post about blackholes and a bird being recorded. This is a tad bit out of place for what it is, not surprised people downvoted it, probably because they thought it was irrelevant, oh well, that’s the internet, sometimes people like what you have to say, other times they don’t. Don’t think about it too hard, at the end of the day it’s just internet karma.
It was more than that. There were hateful reports.
ah, yeah no that would do it, i wouldn’t report shit like this either. People are entitled to posting their dogshit opinions on the internet (myself included lmao)
Wrong crowd buddy.
It’s bird-post day it seems
Tits out for Spring!!!
Looks like they’re working out
