space noise

A friend linked me this a few hours ago, and I haven’t turned it off yet. It’s the live audio stream from an Air Force radar station in Texas courtesy of SpaceWeather.com. I’m not sure what the exact purpose is, and most of the time it’s just static. That is until a “meteor” passes directly over it and catches your attention. If you listen for a while you’ll probably hear a few strange blips, whistles, and other oddities intermittently, and by then you’ll agree: meteors my ass… I know alien technology when I hear it. So what you’re really doing is listening for flying saucers zipping across the sky, and occasionally this thing picks up the crazy sounds they make for a slit second. I swear I’ve heard the classic “pyew pyew” more than once. I’ll bet they’re up there zapping holes in the ozone and blaming it on cow farts.

Alright, I’m obviously making up the alien thing. Still otherworldly and cool, though it’s not something you really would want to focus all your attention on for any length of time (it’s by no means musical). For a more “on demand” trippy space sound fix check this out. But for some unobtrusive white noise you can’t top the strange factor.