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The Sound of Earth's Flipping Magnetic Field Is an Unnerving Horror (www.sciencealert.com)
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[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

I'm all for representing data via audio, but why did they choose to use completely unrelated sounds for this? Surely something like sine or sawtooth waves alone would have been better to represent this data and still would have been very interesting.

IMO, this audio file is fundamentally useless even as a novelty.

[-] jmill@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, I read the article because I wanted to see why they were claiming the pole flipping would make a noise at all. Given that the idea it would make this noise will still be at least some people's takeaway, this presentation of the data is worse than useless, it's misleading.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

I'm sure the fact that ScienceAlert is mostly a wall of ads has nothing to do with it. /s

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