Apollo 10 Astronauts Heard Odd Music On Far Side Of The Moon

[edgitarra]

Hello dear forum!
Found this one, thought it was really interesting:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/135348/20160222/declassified-tapes-reveal-apollo-10-astronauts-heard-odd-music-on-far-side-of-the-moon.htm

Enjoy!

Mystery keeps on creeping even decades after the Apollo 10 mission ended. Declassified tapes reveal that the astronauts on the said mission heard odd music on the far side of the moon.

The Apollo 10 mission run by smoothly and according to plan, the public believes. In fact, the agency said that it was successful in fulfilling its goals.

"All mission objectives were achieved," NASA wrote.

However, recent revelations of "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio" signifies that there was a little bumpy ride along the way.

Astronauts heard the sound in 1969 when Apollo 10 entered the lunar orbit, including the far side of the moon. They lost all signal from the Earth when they arrived at this part and for one whole hour, not a single person on Earth was able to hear or see what was happening.

Now, after nearly four decades, that lost hour in history appears to be a very monumental one. Declassified tapes from that moment were revealed, exposing what the three astronauts were up to during that time.

What The Astronauts Heard

The sounds that the astronauts heard were featured in an episode of Youtube's Science Channel entitled "NASA's Unexplained Files."

The recordings clearly reveal that the astronauts had a noteworthy conversation about a strange music. One was heard describing the sound as "outer space-type of music," while another described it as whistling. Ultimately, the third astronaut said it was indeed weird music.

Astronauts Undecided To Reveal Experience

Just before they traveled back nearer the Earth and restored radio signal contact, the astronauts were heard discussing whether or not they should reveal their strange experience when they arrive back home.

"Shall we tell them about it?" one astronaut was heard saying.

"I don't know. We ought to think about it," responded the other.

Things sure seem a lot creepier as years passed.

Was It Strange At All?

Considering that they were miles away from the Earth, it is not surprising to detect unfamiliar things such as that sound. But according to Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, the Apollo 10 astronauts were very much used to what they should be hearing in space.

"Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there," he says.

Years Later, Debates Spark

The recordings were kept sealed in the archives of NASA until 2008. With this, ongoing debate regarding the strange sound still remains heated.

The incident happened a long time ago that recent revelations raise concerns about whether people are just making things up or if there was really something there, says Worden.

In the end, Worden says he has an open mind about it but stresses the value of evidence versus mere memory. "Recollection is one thing, but actual proof is something entirely different," he closes.

 

[Gaby]

Oh yeah:

Apollo 10 crew heard unexplained space music on the far side of the moon
http://www.sott.net/article/312706-Apollo-10-crew-heard-unexplained-space-music-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon

Who knows what goes on on the dark side of the moon!

 

[Zasino]

Frankly, I don't get those guys.
So they travel millions of miles to outer space. Fine. But once they arrive in outer space, they complain about hearing outer space music?
What were they expecting, underwater yodeling? Bix Beiderbecke and his gang?

 

[mkrnhr]

Pink Floyd music on the dark side of the moon, makes sense.
Here is what NASA has to say about it,
http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/139801679204/apollo-10-audio-publicly-available-since-1970s
with an 8min MP3 file to download:
http://history.nasa.gov/ap10fj/audio/a10o-1021010.mp3

 

[angelburst29]

Russian Space Agency Reveals the 'Song of the Universe' (VIDEO)
http://sputniknews.com/science/20160222/1035175499/song-of-universe.html

Russia's Roscosmos Space Agency published a video on YouTube revealing sounds of the cosmos.

Various sounds such as those emitted by pulsars, the Sun, Jupiter and its moon Ganymede, black holes, the Aurora Borealis and interstellar space have been recorded by Roscosmos with the help of special radio telescopes.

Russian experts said that these sounds can't be heard in the conditions of the space vacuum. For example, solar flares, the collision of asteroids and explosions of stars occur in complete silence.

However, using a radio telescope, they were able to decipher the sound waves and transform them into sounds. Social networks' users have already noted that the sound of a pulsar resembles a quick drumming, while the sound of the Aurora Borealis is similar to the chirping of birds.

Earlier in 2015, Roscosmos posted a video depicting Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko entering open space. During this time, the astronauts reviewed the outer surface of the International Space Station (ISS), cleaned viewports of the Zvezda Service Module "Star" and installed a new docking radio antenna.

 

[mkrnhr]

Sound of planets and so forth have been popular lately in social media. I think it's a misnomer to call them sounds because they are electromagnetic signals interpreted as sound. Any signal or sequence of numbers can be transformed into a sound. For instance, one can take a computer image, which is an array of numbers, rearrange them into a single sequence, and play these numbers are a sound file. That doesn't mean that the image is a sound, just that the sequence of numbers has been transformed into a sound file. Same with electromagnetic signals, one can record them, re-sample them, and play them as a sound file. If there is some symbolic something about it I don't know, but the way it's presented usually is confusing.

 

[Windmill knight]

Sound of planets and so forth have been popular lately in social media. I think it's a misnomer to call them sounds because they are electromagnetic signals interpreted as sound. Any signal or sequence of numbers can be transformed into a sound. For instance, one can take a computer image, which is an array of numbers, rearrange them into a single sequence, and play these numbers are a sound file. That doesn't mean that the image is a sound, just that the sequence of numbers has been transformed into a sound file. Same with electromagnetic signals, one can record them, re-sample them, and play them as a sound file. If there is some symbolic something about it I don't know, but the way it's presented usually is confusing.

For what I read, the 'music' sounded quite similar to the EM signals they've got from other planets. The weird thing is that apparently the moon has no such EM signals like the planets of the solar system (or that's what I understood from the article I read). In that case, then maybe they were just picking up some random cosmic EM radiation, in which case it would have been a perfectly natural phenomenon, though still cool.

 

[Nienna]

Sound of planets and so forth have been popular lately in social media. I think it's a misnomer to call them sounds because they are electromagnetic signals interpreted as sound. Any signal or sequence of numbers can be transformed into a sound. For instance, one can take a computer image, which is an array of numbers, rearrange them into a single sequence, and play these numbers are a sound file. That doesn't mean that the image is a sound, just that the sequence of numbers has been transformed into a sound file. Same with electromagnetic signals, one can record them, re-sample them, and play them as a sound file. If there is some symbolic something about it I don't know, but the way it's presented usually is confusing.

For what I read, the 'music' sounded quite similar to the EM signals they've got from other planets. The weird thing is that apparently the moon has no such EM signals like the planets of the solar system (or that's what I understood from the article I read). In that case, then maybe they were just picking up some random cosmic EM radiation, in which case it would have been a perfectly natural phenomenon, though still cool.

I am confused about the bolded part above. If one of you more knowledgeable people would explain it to me, I'd be grateful.

Since the astronauts were hearing this sound, does that mean they re-sampled them and, then, played them as sound? Or did they hear this sound just as it was without any re-sampling, in which case, it would be a sound and not EM signals?

 

[mkrnhr]

I am confused about the bolded part above. If one of you more knowledgeable people would explain it to me, I'd be grateful.

Since the astronauts were hearing this sound, does that mean they re-sampled them and, then, played them as sound? Or did they hear this sound just as it was without any re-sampling, in which case, it would be a sound and not EM signals?

Sorry, that was an example on how to convert any sequence of numbers to a sound at home. The astronauts did hear the sounds through their radio device, which means that it's radio (electromagnetic) signals they were picking up, interference or otherwise, not real sound waves.

 

[Nienna]

I am confused about the bolded part above. If one of you more knowledgeable people would explain it to me, I'd be grateful.

Since the astronauts were hearing this sound, does that mean they re-sampled them and, then, played them as sound? Or did they hear this sound just as it was without any re-sampling, in which case, it would be a sound and not EM signals?

Sorry, that was an example on how to convert any sequence of numbers to a sound at home. The astronauts did hear the sounds through their radio device, which means that it's radio (electromagnetic) signals they were picking up, interference or otherwise, not real sound waves.

Thank you, mkrnhr. I should have realized that.