Jello wrote:
] ] anuary 19, 2001 -- If humans had radio antennas instead
] ] of ears, we would hear a remarkable symphony of strange
] ] noises coming from our own planet. Scientists call them
] ] "tweeks," "whistlers" and "sferics." They sound like
] ] background music from a flamboyant science fiction film,
] ] but this is not science fiction. Earth's natural radio
] ] emissions are real and, although we're mostly unaware of
] ] them, they are around us all the time.
] ]
] ] "Everyone's terrestrial environment almost literally
] ] sings with radio waves at audio frequencies," says Dennis
] ] Gallagher, a space physicist at the Marshall Space Flight
] ] Center (MSFC). "Our ears can't detect radio waves
] ] directly, but we can convert them to sound waves with the
] ] aid of a very low frequency (VLF) radio receiver."

We should also have fingers on the sides of our heads.

RE: Earth Songs