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Cambridge University's 'Space Scream' Phone Experiment

Posted October 25, 2012 7:24 AM

From BBC News:

Members of the Spaceflight Society (CUSF) will transmit the screams via a mobile phone on board a satellite.

A sound file will be sent back to Earth "which may or may not contain the screams in the vacuum of space".

A CUSF spokesman said they were not expecting much but hoped it might interest more people in space science.

The 'scream in space' app is one of four that will be on board STRaND-1, a smartphone nanosatellite built by a team from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and the University of Surrey Space Centre.

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10/27/2012 12:12 PM

What a bunch of crap. A flawed experiment on several levels. A better question to answer is "If a man talks in the forest where no woman can hear, is he still wrong?"

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10/29/2012 1:19 AM

This piece was considered newsworthy because....????

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