{"id":4351,"date":"2009-12-31T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2009-12-31T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:00:45","slug":"cthulhu-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4351","title":{"rendered":"Cthulhu Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloopwatch.org\/thebloop.html\">The Bloop<\/a>, which has its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloop\">own Wikipedia page<\/a> (OK, what interesting subject doesn&#8217;t, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2009\/11\/questions-that-are-rarely-asked-the-wikipedia-paradox.html\">Wikipedia Paradox<\/a> notwithstanding?)<\/p>\n<p>Aaaaanyway \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he sound is believed to be coming roughly from 50oS; 100oW. After reading that, I wondered how close that was to the coordinates given in &#8220;The Call of Cthulhu&#8221;. Allow me to quote: &#8220;Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured yacht under Johansen&#8217;s command, the men sight a great stone pillar sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47\u00b09&#8242;, W. Longitude l23\u00b043&#8242;, come upon a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth&#8217;s supreme terror &#8211; the nightmare corpse-city of R&#8217;lyeh, that was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also:  <a href=\"http:\/\/oceanexplorer.noaa.gov\/explorations\/sound01\/background\/seasounds\/seasounds.html\">NOAA:  A Collection of Sounds from the Sea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spectrographs of underwater sounds, including The Bloop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bloop, which has its own Wikipedia page (OK, what interesting subject doesn&#8217;t, the Wikipedia Paradox notwithstanding?) Aaaaanyway \u2026 [T]he sound is believed to be coming roughly from 50oS; 100oW. After reading that, I wondered how close that was to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4351\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}