What the hell? This can't be real. The headline caught my curiosity and I had to find out. It began as interesting and intriguing, but the more I read the more I began to question what I was reading. The article comes from the website of WION, a TV News station in India. Below are the key excerpts and link to the article. Hmmmmm....
Baffling sound coming from Pacific born from something humans did 46 years ago
Nearly 46 years ago, scientists noticed strange pinging sounds coming from an area in the central Pacific Ocean. Their source remained a mystery for decades. It has now been found to be a remnant of a human activity, ... In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment was carried out in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). ...
.. Later, after the mining experiment was over, the region started emitting strange sounds. Scientists remained confused about their origin. ...
The mining experiment left visible marks on the ocean floor. A study led by the National Oceanography Centre and the Natural History Museum in London, published in the journal Nature, states that the mining machinery affected the region and is the reason for the sound.
The ocean floor caught the sound of the machines, and this is what researchers have been hearing all these years. The machines are no longer there, yet the sound remains, which is shocking. Dr Adrian Glover, the study’s author, said that the machinery left a sonic imprint, and "the scars made by the mining machine 44 years ago look almost as if they were made yesterday."
The mining also affected the marine ecosystem, as sea creatures that inhabited the region vanished. ... The mining experiment shows that mining the seabed might not be a good idea, as it can affect the ecosystem for hundreds of years. Disturbing the marine ecosystem can spell doom for the entire world. ...
I was intrigued by this, and did a bit of googling. I could find no credible sources, other than the original report. Every other mention appears to have been taken from this original report.
Personally, I'd take the news with a grain of salt.
I did, however, find this.
@artisan-radio It reminded me of the old National Enquire stories, irresistible but ludicrous in most cases. That's how this one read to me, I didn't even try to see if the Nature publication it referenced exist. It sounds to ridiculous that the machinery that was there 44 years ago created a "sonic signature" trapping it in that area of the ocean which you can still hear today.
Take it with a grain of salt huh? I'll pass.
I guess I'll have to eat my words if it somehow turns out to be true.
And it could be them baffling us with BS, because they really don't know.
Then again, if they're really onto something it could explain the weird "hum" people hear in certain locals. It usually gets explained away as a factory across a large body of water, or such.
@centinel Yeah.. the hum locals are curious unexplained phenomenons which are documented genuine, but the above story appears to be a fabrication - but I shouldn't say that because I haven't even bothered to investigate