Mysterious booms heard around the world are leaving experts baffled - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=mrkaki;52919844]There's something incredibly soothing about this, I would love to experience this in person Booms, however, are unpleasant regardless of cause[/QUOTE] What I'd love to experience is to go hiking in a Karman vortex street affected region. The phenomen is rare and arises in mountainous regions with specific, conducive topologies. It is claimed to create infrasound range frequencies, carried by howling winds. Infrasound works on a frequency that affects our brains' fear handling bits. Prolonged exposure will allegedly drive people insane. Look up Dyatlov Pass if you're interested. The climbers of that team were supposedly driven insane over days of exposure and ended up tearing their tent apart from the inside, scrambling into the night, later found frozen in the snow or down ravines. I don't want to go insane, obviously, but I'd like to see how it feels like to be exposed to something like that for a bit.

[QUOTE=deadvcr;52917148][video=youtube;hS_-n2I2wdY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS_-n2I2wdY[/video] Sorta reminds me of this.[/QUOTE] Sounds like fuckin Cthulhu rising from his dead sleep or some shit.

I love weird stuff like this. Usually they can be explained by incredibly rare natural phenomena that happened when the conditions were perfect for it. The descriptions of stuff like the Seneca Guns sound like sonic booms, and as was stated earlier in the thread the likely cause would be meteors that passed over several minutes before. The thing about sonic booms that not many people realize is that they are best visualized as being a sphere that travels along the path of the object that causes it. When the sphere overlaps you, that is when you hear the boom - and it doesn't resonate like thunder, either, which matches the description of these mysterious booms. Other weird stuff that is neat to read about are things like earthquake lights, which might be caused by electric discharge in the atmosphere immediately before a quake. I remember reading about a valley in Alaska where these lights are common, and apparently the copper and nickel mines in the area might contribute to creating a conductive current in the stream that flows through it, which would then discharge into the atmosphere and light up any gasses that are susceptible. It's neat how this is stuff that is still only theorized about but has been observed many times all around the world. It just shows how some natural processes are so rare that they haven't had a chance to even be considered for study.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;52919968]tbh it was probably just a consequence of late stage hypothermia and a possible avalanche that caused their injuries/strange deaths[/QUOTE] Paradoxical undressing doesn't really have much to do with tearing up a tent from the inside in order to get out. Also, reports from the rescue teams mentioned some of the deceased had tried to wrap themselves up with clothes pried from the dead, which goes against paradoxical undressing. Don't misunderstand - I'm not saying they died strange deaths. They died from about as obvious reasons as exposure to the elements in the Siberian mountains can produce. It's what initially drove them to do what they did that I find intriguing. Surely something like "if you feel hot, don't start undressing" is common knowledge for a team of very experienced mountaineers. [QUOTE=piddlezmcfuz;52919989]I love weird stuff like this. Usually they can be explained by incredibly rare natural phenomena that happened when the conditions were perfect for it. The descriptions of stuff like the Seneca Guns sound like sonic booms, and as was stated earlier in the thread the likely cause would be meteors that passed over several minutes before. The thing about sonic booms that not many people realize is that they are best visualized as being a sphere that travels along the path of the object that causes it. When the sphere overlaps you, that is when you hear the boom - and it doesn't resonate like thunder, either, which matches the description of these mysterious booms. Other weird stuff that is neat to read about are things like earthquake lights, which might be caused by electric discharge in the atmosphere immediately before a quake. I remember reading about a valley in Alaska where these lights are common, and apparently the copper and nickel mines in the area might contribute to creating a conductive current in the stream that flows through it, which would then discharge into the atmosphere and light up any gasses that are susceptible. It's neat how this is stuff that is still only theorized about but has been observed many times all around the world. It just shows how some natural processes are so rare that they haven't had a chance to even be considered for study.[/QUOTE] I love these things too. But at the same time, it makes me think hard about all the wondrous or mystical things seen in fantasy movies and worlds. Outside of straight up high fantasy magic and dragons and undead and floating islands etc, I start thinking about how a lot of the things people see/hear/feel in fantasy settings can have perfectly rational scientific explanations, but since people don't really know any of the science behind most things, they go with "a cursed domain that drives trespassers insane" or "the baleful lights flash often in the nights when the witches convene with the demons" and so on, when it could just as well be infrasound or electric/temperature phenomena doing their own natural thing.

[QUOTE=just-a-boy;52919995]Paradoxical undressing doesn't really have much to do with tearing up a tent from the inside in order to get out. Also, reports from the rescue teams mentioned some of the deceased had tried to wrap themselves up with clothes pried from the dead, which goes against paradoxical undressing. Don't misunderstand - I'm not saying they died strange deaths. They died from about as obvious reasons as exposure to the elements in the Siberian mountains can produce. It's what initially drove them to do what they did that I find intriguing. Surely something like "if you feel hot, don't start undressing" is common knowledge for a team of very experienced mountaineers.[/QUOTE] Even moderate hypothermia can cause people to become confused, and as the supply of blood to the brain gets worse the mental effects become ever more debilitating. When you're at the stage of stuff like paradoxical undressing, you aren't aware enough to rationalise what's happening. You suddenly feel very hot, so you have to get all these clothes off. That's all people are capable of thinking of at that point.

[QUOTE=elitehakor;52917081]i'm sure there is a completely rational reason for why these booms are happening[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://media.giphy.com/media/UIorhH00aiRzy/giphy.gif[/IMG] You guys better not of posted this, they'll be two confused marks. Sorry, not a meme. I deny your right for that ban.

[QUOTE=just-a-boy;52919832]The trumpets in the sky were really interesting. They had something to do with Earth's magnetic field reacting to something or another in a particular way. It's Earth singing to you. Or playing the trumpet, whichever you prefer. I find it an extremely humbling experience. Even in this age of information, if something like this comes out of nowhere, people still get absolutely freaked to the core. From aliens, secret experiments to the heralds of the apocalypse, the stories are many. And you have to admit, watching those videos makes something primal in us twist in fearful apprehension. The heralds of the apocalypse with their trumpets were probably actually people hearing this same planetary event thousands of years ago and coming up with a divine explanation. As with many other things. Humans are very, very imaginative.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure they were all just faked and had nothing to do with the earths magnetic field.

Skyquake perhaps? [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvBaQQN3so[/media]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;52922880]Skyquake perhaps? [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvBaQQN3so[/media][/QUOTE] What's the explaination behind this? sounds like "it's fucking windy" times a million.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;52924019]What's the explaination behind this? sounds like "it's fucking windy" times a million.[/QUOTE] The real answer is: Nobody knows There's some theories though: Some are meteors entering the atmosphere, Coronal Mass Ejections from the sun, Military vehicles / tests, etc. Basically, anything that could cause the atmosphere to make that sound.

[QUOTE=Daemon White;52924056]The real answer is: Nobody knows There's some theories though: Some are meteors entering the atmosphere, Coronal Mass Ejections from the sun, Military vehicles / tests, etc. Basically, anything that could cause the atmosphere to make that sound.[/QUOTE] Not saying it's fake, but there was also reports of hoaxing with people playing weird sounds through their car stereo while filming. I don't doubt these sounds can be real, because I have seen the aurora borealis in Southeast US and the whole time there was a weird sound going on. So it could be anything.

We have skyquakes around here in the Finger Lakes, Seneca Lake in particular, and I regret not hanging out around the lake more to try and hear it. All sorts of theories, the sounds have been around for at least hundreds of years, but my favorite is collapsing underwater caverns. Probably not true but it sounds awesome.

[QUOTE=Xanadu;52924163]We have skyquakes around here in the Finger Lakes, Seneca Lake in particular, and I regret not hanging out around the lake more to try and hear it. All sorts of theories, the sounds have been around for at least hundreds of years, but my favorite is collapsing underwater caverns. Probably not true but it sounds awesome.[/QUOTE] I don't know the plausibility of it with oxygen availability. But just imagine little closed ecosystems that have done their ting for billions of years in caverns and caves cut off by tectonic activity or other natural phenomena. Wonder what that does to biodiversity and how different any such two closed ecosystems would be from one another... Is this plausible? Because holy shit.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;52924998]I don't know the plausibility of it with oxygen availability. But just imagine little closed ecosystems that have done their ting for billions of years in caverns and caves cut off by tectonic activity or other natural phenomena. Wonder what that does to biodiversity and how different any such two closed ecosystems would be from one another... Is this plausible? Because holy shit.[/QUOTE] [video]https://youtu.be/xrzExz9ZqSI[/video]

When it comes to the "trumpet", could it maybe be something as simple as two "bands" or "layers" of air traveling in opposite directions (or at very different speeds), and creating this highly turbulent interface between them as they brush against eachother?

[QUOTE=Renderman;52924102]Not saying it's fake, but there was also reports of hoaxing with people playing weird sounds through their car stereo while filming. [/QUOTE] Or they could just, you know, make some noise in Audacity or something and edit it into the video. I thought all of these videos were hoaxes? Perhaps I've been living under a rock or something because I haven't heard any comments from any experts or even the general public, just videos from random new age/spiritual/religious nutjob YouTube channels [QUOTE]I don't doubt these sounds can be real, because I have seen the aurora borealis in Southeast US and the whole time there was a weird sound going on. So it could be anything.[/QUOTE] Though this part of your post sorta makes this sound like a plausible explanation: [quote=Wikipedia] When a CME smashes into Earth's magnetic field, it triggers beautiful auroras but it can also play havoc with power grids, radio communications and satellites. CMEs often generate shock waves similar to what happens when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier in Earth's atmosphere. But the solar wind's equivalent of a sonic boom can accelerate protons up to millions of miles per minute—as much as 40 percent of the speed of light. The result is called a solar radiation storm.[/quote]

I heard one before.. was probably a possum knocking shit over though.