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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The black hole only knows two songs, tho.

Black Hole Sun and Supermassive Black Hole.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Feel the rhythm all alone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Massive, compact astronomical object: "AND WASH AWAY THE RAAAAAAAAAAINNN..."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Blackhole: "Hey.... You wanna hear the most annoying sound in the universe? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Chris was one of a kind. Limo Wreck really showed his range, and is one of my favourites.

"WHILE. THE. REST. OF. YOU. HARVEST. THE. SOULS"

There are no pauses in that sentence but they're sung with such punctuated venom that they feel like universes of their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

What about Black Hole by Betraying The Martyrs?

[–] [email protected] 119 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This is what AI should be for, finding the patterns and deciphering

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

thats what a lot of AI is used for, just in different fields.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Every tool has its use, as long as it's not being shoved everywhere for the sake of shareholders™

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

They've so far used AI to detect all the different parts of a particular whale species' language, like the different sounds and timing. Deciphering the meaning will be much harder since it's difficult to observe their behavior, but small land mammals should go much smoother.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just sayin'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Birds don't know shit about microphones.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's bird-post day it seems

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

hm, hanging low.. it'll be rain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Looks like they're working out

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I saw it! I saw a bird today!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

did the bird stop awkwardly when it notices the microphone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The song is 'Happiness by the kilowatt' by Alexisonfire.

(Which itself is a reference to 'The Euphio Question' by Kurt Vonnegut)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It’s all vibes man

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

RIAA: *heavy breathing intensifies*

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Or the last bird was just a lil eepy birb out of energy

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