From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 08:13:29 MST
Fly me to the Moon
http://www.3jay.com/alunward/flyme.html
(extracted from Web page)
"In 1618 Johannes Kepler completed a motet, successfully re-creating
the harmonious chord calculated from the ratios of the planets' orbits to
the sun.
In 1852 the painter Hermann Goldschmidt made the first of his fourteen
asteroid discoveries from a small room in a café in Paris.
Inspired by these brilliant and slightly odd people, Alun Ward has created Fly
me to the Moon, a Flash installation which uses random methods to drive
asteroids across a projected screen. As they pass by on their lonely journeys,
they seem to generate sounds. Human and extraterrestrial noises coincide on
the otherwise silent screen, and a new music of the spheres is born."
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McGreevy ground-based VLF recordings
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/sounds/sounds.html
(extracted from Web page)
"Natural Radio" describes naturally-occurring electromagnetic (radio)
signals emanating from lightning storms, aurora (The Northern and
Southern Lights), and most importantly, the Earth's magnetic-field (the
Magnetosphere).
This is a presentation of Earth's natural radio emissions that occur in
the extremely-low-frequency to very-low-frequency (ELF-VLF) radio
spectrum--specifically, at AUDIO frequencies between approximately 100
to 10,000 cycles-per second (0.1 - 10 kHz).
Unlike sound waves which are vibrations of air molecules that our ears
are sensitive to, natural radio waves are vibrations of electric and
magnetic energy (electromagnetic waves) which--though occurring at the
same frequencies as sound--cannot be listened to without an
audio-frequency ELF-VLF radio receiver to convert the natural radio
signals directly into the same sound frequencies. Another amazing realm
of nature is thus ready to be explored and observed.
Naturally-occurring VLF radio emissions are being studied both via
ground-based receiving systems as well as orbiting spacecraft
receivers. "
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(heh....)
Moon Real Estate Broker Jailed
Associated Press
Thursday, January 23, 2003
©2003 SF Gate
URL:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/01/30/MNmoon.DTL
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - For years, Rene Veenema says he made a
small fortune selling real estate plots on the moon. Now he's in
jail, on Earth.
Veenema, 33, has been accused of fraud and forgery by prosecutors
investigating complaints from clients who said they paid for, but
never received, ownership certificates for their parcels of land
in space, the daily Telegraaf newspaper reported Tuesday.
Veenema, who goes on trial next month, was quoted as saying he
made thousands of people happy before his business turned sour. He
claims he sold plots for around 1,500 euros ($1,600) each through
the U.S.-based firm Lunar Embassy.
The American company has sold plots since 1996 to owners who
include Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, David Letterman, Ed Asner,
Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Since then, the moon has sold well
in Europe Ð last year the lots were a popular Valentine's Day gift
in Romania Ð even though few if any buyers can ever hope to set
foot on their property.
The paper said Veenema was jailed several weeks ago and that
prosecutors are seeking damages in a suit brought by five
disappointed investors.
"Like most things I start up, the moon project had a promising
start. But when the rush failed to materialize Ð I had expected
tens of thousands of orders per month Ð I ordered a car, a house,
you name it," he was quoted as saying.
"In fact, I have been pulling this off for more than 10 years,"
Veenema told the newspaper. "My employers, my colleagues, my
ex-girlfriend, I conned them all."
When he gets out of jail, Veenema said he intends to repay all
those he swindled and "learn to stop lying and cheating."
©2003 SF Gate
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