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Unexplained "Outer space music" during the Apollo 10 mission

Jeff7

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Sounds like EMI. Magnetic reconnection or something like that perhaps, or even an interstellar source?


Nope, gotta be alien music. Make it all spooky and dramatized. Is even The Science Channel entirely like that, the same thing that infected Discovery Channel long ago?



I'm sure it would have been creepy at the time though, sort of like discovering pulsars was. "LGM" - little green men, was an acronym associated with pulsars briefly, partly in jest. They were hitting us with extremely precisely-spaced pulses of radio waves. Nothing natural had been seen that would do that, until it was determined that they were just rapidly spinning magnetic neutron stars.
 
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Sounds like EMI. Magnetic reconnection or something like that perhaps, or even an interstellar source?


Nope, gotta be alien music. Make it all spooky and dramatized. Is even The Science Channel entirely like that, the same thing that infected Discovery Channel long ago?

They didn't even play back the original recording of the strange noise from the Apollo 10. Seems more entertainy than sciency. Yes I know those aren't words. I'm channeling former president Bushy for entertainment purposes.
 

Jeff7

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They didn't even play back the original recording of the strange noise from the Apollo 10. Seems more entertainy than sciency. Yes I know those aren't words. I'm channeling former president Bushy for entertainment purposes.
I think they played some of it in Part1, but it was blended in with the background effects that were like something out of a 1950s movie that featured someone's cat playing on a theremin.
 

Jodell88

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ImpulsE69

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They want to know where they are coming from so they can fine them for using their frequencies
 

John Connor

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Saw this on the Internets. My first inclination was a nebula or some damn thing and the Saturn hypothesis sounds about right.

Nothing to see here move along.
 

Rubycon

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The radio tech explanation is plausible.
In multiple carrier systems PLL differential creates off beat tones which sound just like that.
 

MongGrel

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It was the space Nazi's hiding on the far side.

In all seriousness, they did tell later missions to expect that kind of thing when the two radios where powered up in close proximity in the command module and LEM.
 
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I saw something on TV that said NASA's theory was when the module went behind the moon they turned off some equipment to save power. The theory is the strange music sound was interference that was always present just undetectable with the other equipment on. The radio waves were not very clean.