Belgian researchers have been able to use computer scans of the grooves in 6,500-year-old pottery to extract sounds -- including talking and laughter -- made by the vibrations of the tools used to make the pottery. Here comes the VIDEO (the interviews are in French, but you'll hear the pottery recordings as well). UPDATE: It turns out that the site and video is an April Fools joke hoax.
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Comments:
That's amazing. I'm not even mad.
Mad... why?
It's a fake !!!
In the video they talk about a Cheratte faculty... there's no faculty or even a think like this in this city.
I made a little investigation here in Belgium and nothing about this !!!
jeff said...
That's amazing. I'm not even mad.
Thats a line from the movie Ron Burgundy, when Baxter poops in the fridge.
Too bad if this pottery thing really is fake. Seems a bit too good to be true though.
"That's amazing, I'm not even mad!"
Isn't that when Baxter eats a whole wheel of cheese? Ah, such trivialities...
But that would be incredible if it were real, and I reserve my judgement 'till I hear some scientific proof, preferably in English.
umm, because things are inherently more likely to be true if they're in English? What a stupid thing to say.
Highly unlikely it would work. The human voice doesn't contain very much power, and analog recording devices like Edison's phonograph require a huge amplifier and a very fine stylus to make any recording. Hard to see it working with unamplified voices and relatively blunt, heavy tools.
Nice idea, though.
Mark J. Jones (Ph.D.)
Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
UK
Unfortunately, this was an April Fool's joke in 2005...
http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2006/02/19/sound-and-ceramics-6500-yo-voices-recorded-in-pottery/
L'Universite de Cheratte???? Cheratte is best known for an abandoned coalmine shaft. ;-)
And they're going to make CD's of the recording and sell them?
Uh huh. ;-)
I read a Sci Fi story over 20 yrs ago, where Arthurian-era English conversations were supposedly recorded in the same manner. Can't remember the author.
>>Anonymous said...
umm, because things are inherently more likely to be true if they're in English? What a stupid thing to say.
Monday, February 20, 2006 10:16:05 AM
Poster probably meant that he wished to hear it in his native language rather than en Francais. Quit trying to find hints of imperialism in writing. That shit gets annoying.
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