Talk:Slow Down (unidentified sound)

message: After listening it several times, slowing the speed down to 8x, and speeding it up 32x, here are several theories:
It sounds almost like someone is screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
It sounds like a plane going down.
:Actually the frequency that gradually lowens matches the sound of a rotor that is slowing down. Plane, submarine or similar machinery with rotors was my first thought too.--Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk) 21:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Several theories 

message: To me, sounds disturbingly similar to the, "LOST", Theme, like just before the show goes to a commercial.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.41.13.69 (talk) 16:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lost

message: Do someone know, which hour was when this sound apeared?
83.31.232.42 (talk) 13:16, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hour of recording

message: Is it me or does the "slow down" phenomena sound like the synth at the beginning of Roundabout by Yes? great song by the way!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.103.160.146 (talk) 06:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Its that part of said song?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DrMGinius (talk • contribs) 13:17, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Roundabout?

message: Merge with bloop?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.181.125.5 (talk) 00:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: Why is the sound here and in bloop played at 16 times the original speed? 66.108.167.71 (talk) 03:46, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: To make it audible. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 03:49, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Yes, at original speed the sound frequency is too low to be heard by human ears. Irish Techno Zombie (talk) 01:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Cause the hydrophones were placed near an underwater helium geyser.--Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk) 21:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  16 

message: Could be a ship on the edge of a trench or wedged in one finally breaking apart slowly?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.33.138.221 (talk) 22:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunken ship? 

message: I can listen to other sounds on the wiki just fine, but the Slow Down doesn't play for some reason 24.64.116.157 (talk) 03:45, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  File seems to be broken 

message: ...Russian or Chinese submarine, anyone? Different sounds appearing mid-recording probably just systems tests or venting something. PS would be hella funny if this were actually just a sub flushing off its refuse tanks in the middle of nowhere.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.123.237.44 (talk) 17:17, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See, most of these as yet unidentified sounds appear to have occured (as well as their assumed source/s) somewhere in the South Pacific. In general, not a region where I'd expect Russian or Chinese crafts as most likely, or at least not restricted to this area. Doesn't make sense. For what I know, the SOSUS installations are not limited to this region, plus, there are other hydrophone systems, so in case it's just non-US submarines, you'd naturally expect similar occurences, say, in the North Pacific, and in the Atlantic Ocean, etc. Also, sounds stemming from submarines and the like, that is, sounds of essentially technical origin usually can at least be identified as what they are: artificial, thus anthropogenic. Something not the case concerning these examples. As for at least some of them, I'd say the relative proximity of their assumed source/s to the Antarctic ice shelves seems more suspicious than anything else. Someone here proposed a sunken ship, breaking apart. Well, a splitting iceberg, or colliding icebergs, anything breaking off from the shelves, or someting like that, may not sound so different. Zero Thrust (talk) 03:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The location seems to be far too north to be an antarctic iceberg.--Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk) 14:03, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird sound in Pacific, source unknown to US?