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‘Predator’ Sounds Coming From Rosetta’s Comet?! (Video)
We’ve been on pins and needles ever since it was reported that Rosetta picked up eerie noise that were coming from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
It all happened a day before Philae made history by landing on the surface of the comet when ESA released an audio clip of 67P/C-G singing. Bizarrely, the audio sounds that of a Predator, the alien that tried to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger, IFL Science first noted.
Of course, sound waves can’t travel through space, so it isn’t a direct audio recording. Instead, Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) picked up variations in the magnetic field around the comet, due to interactions between 67P/C-G’s coma and the plasma from the Sun, better known as solar wind. These variations resulted in frequencies between 40 to 50 millihertz, about 10,000 times lower than can be detected by humans. ESA scientists altered the frequency of the comet’s song into human hearing range, and discovered it was a series of clicks that are very reminiscent of Predator’s growl.
Here’s both audio files for comparison (play them at the same time for extra creep factor). Are the Predators living on Comet 67P?! It sure as hell sounds like it to me!
