Bloop

[zombiemommy]

I was reading the wiki article on the unexplained sound "Bloop". (If someone could post the cite, I would kindly appreciate it - I'm not sure how to do that myself). Anyone wish to venture a guess as to what it might be? Bonus points for guesses with scientific explanations!

[Giles]

Cite: Bloop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop)

[zombiemommy]

Thank you Giles

[Morgenstern]

When Wiki posts something like this, I take a deep breath and look a little deeper. But it appears that there might be some truth to the bloop (http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/sound01/background/seasounds/seasounds.html#Anchor-1515) sound. (from NOAA Ocean Explorer.)

Edit - spkjelling.

[LSLGuy]

FYI ... You can post a link to a web page here by just including the url in your text. The board software will handle the rest for you automatically. It will appear as a clickable link to everyone else when they see your post.

[Half Man Half Wit]

Skeptoid had an interesting episode on the bloop (http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4177) (link to readable version). Long story short, nobody knows for sure what it is, but there's really all kinds of weird noises in the ocean, and it's probably not an animal (what kind of animal would, for instance, vocalize just a couple of times during one summer, only to then be silent forever?).

[Half Man Half Wit]

Though it has to be noted that the approximate origin of the bloop is not all that far from where Lovecraft posited the sunken city of R'lyeh; so perhaps it's just that the stars were almost right in '97, causing some disturbance in the dreams of dead Cthulhu...?

[Heyoka13]

The 'Bloop' was also the alien monkey pet in Lost In Space.

More than coincidence?





I think not.

[Kobal2]

Though it has to be noted that the approximate origin of the bloop is not all that far from where Lovecraft posited the sunken city of R'lyeh; so perhaps it's just that the stars were almost right in '97, causing some disturbance in the dreams of dead Cthulhu...?

That, or he farted in his sleep.

[Brandus]

it's probably not an animal (what kind of animal would, for instance, vocalize just a couple of times during one summer, only to then be silent forever?).

Good point. If it's also several times the size of the blue whale, it's hard to imagine what source of calories could sustain that sort of animal.

It sounded to me like a giant underwear gaseous leak or landslide.

[Sunspace]

At least it wasn't a giant knocking, pecking kind of sound...

[psychonaut]

Skeptoid had an interesting episode on the bloop (http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4177) (link to readable version). Long story short, nobody knows for sure what it is, but there's really all kinds of weird noises in the ocean, and it's probably not an animal (what kind of animal would, for instance, vocalize just a couple of times during one summer, only to then be silent forever?).Maybe one that didn't park itself next to that particular microphone for the entire summer?

[Keeve]

The 'Bloop' was also the alien monkey pet in Lost In Space.Actually, its name was Debbie. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space#Characters

[brossa]

The 'Bloop' was also the alien monkey pet in Lost In Space.


That would be Blarp, from the 1998 movie.

[garygnu]

That, or he farted in his sleep.

...It sounded to me like a giant underwear gaseous leak...

We're coming to a consesus, I see.

[zombiemommy]

FYI ... You can post a link to a web page here by just including the url in your text. The board software will handle the rest for you automatically. It will appear as a clickable link to everyone else when they see your post.

At the risk for sounding incredibly dumb and out of touch with the times, what is an url?

[Derleth]

At the risk for sounding incredibly dumb and out of touch with the times, what is an url?The address to a web page.

Look in the white bar in your browser window above where the page itself is. If you go to Google, the URL will look like this: http://www.google.com/

Just copy all of the URL (make all of it it turn white-and-blue, click the right button on your mouse, and click 'Copy' on the drop-down menu) and paste it into your post (put the cursor (little blinking line) in where you type the post, click the right button on your mouse, and click 'Paste' on the drop down menu) and that will do it.

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

We're coming to a consesus, I see.

Actually, methane production sounds like a pretty good bet.

[Dahu]

At the risk for sounding incredibly dumb and out of touch with the times, what is an url?

It stands for Uniform Resource Locator

[Half Man Half Wit]

Maybe one that didn't park itself next to that particular microphone for the entire summer?
It wasn't really 'next to' any particular microphone; rather, it was picked up by multiple ones distributed over a range of 5000 km. I don't think a recurrence of a sound this powerful would easily slip past the various arrays of undersea microphones out there...

[zombiemommy]

Thank you Derleth, I will try that next time.