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Scientists identify cause of mysterious "Bloop": it's the sound of icebergs calving in Antarctica

www.sciencealert.com Decades Ago a Huge Noise Roared in The Ocean. For Years It Was a Mystery.

In 1997, a deep belch echoed through the belly of Earth's oceans.

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Great. We wanted aliens and we get more climate doom.

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- I'm sure the universe is brimming with life.
  
  That said, why would any advanced race expend resources to come visit a type 0 "civilization" of malevolent primates torturing and manipulating one another while they work towards planetary scale mass suicide eyes wide open? I mean sure, Einstein might have enjoyed 16 and pregnant, or the ironically unironic Squid Game reality show, but I doubt it.
  
  Our culture sucks, we're still basically fresh out of the cave technologically, and if they're the conquering habitable worlds type, we're turning our habitat into fucking Mordor with what little technology we've recklessly implemented without caring to fully understand.
  
  I honestly hope space faring civilizations, whether benevolent(explorers), neutral(silent observers), or malevolent(we've come for your raw materials), have better shit to do.
  
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  It’s an assumption that intelligent life unknown to us is space faring.
  
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  That's like asking why would people go to safaris, I'm sure the concept of tourism will exist forever.
  
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  why would any advanced race expend resources to come visit a type 0 "civilization" of malevolent primates torturing and manipulating one another
  
  Idk ask Jane Goodall. People do it, why wouldn't "space people?"
  
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  There's a good probability, of other civilizations exist in our galaxy alone, they faced similar challenges we are facing and may even be facing challenges we have to endure.
  
  The idea that somewhere there are old aliens complaining on how the young ones keep recklessly racing their flying saucers, bothering those still under developed home planets sounds so... banal.
  
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  Are you saying that if you were that super intelligent life traveling through space that you'd pass up a planet if you thought its inhabitants were too stupid?
  
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  Its the Great Filter theory, aliens would be historians potentially documenting the Great filter in action tbh. If they exist with the resources and interest to do so. Yet could humans even comprehend their existence, it could be just so incomprehensible we wouldnt even know what we couldnt even know. Hope that makes sense.
  
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  The benevolent explorers might be able to help us, assuming they could convince our leaders, and the conquering type would at least unite us. Although I'm sure there would be a fair amount of people who side with the alien invaders and actively work to hurt any resistance.
  
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  We keep certain aboriginal tribes secluded so we can properly research how societies arise, I don't see why they wouldn't.
  
  Any space faring civ also has the tech to make human bodies to control from a distance and would have some of their members chilling with us down here. Likewise, I think a lot of people here would enjoy spending a bit of free time in different eras in our past, even though they are much more barbaric by todays standards.
  
  I can't even imagine them just not caring.
  
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- I was hoping for whale farts.
  
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I am sorry, but I believe this news isnt new, I remember reading about it few years back on reddit.

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- I remember hearing about it in 1936 when Phantom Menace was released in crisp sepia-tone on one of them new fangled Beta Max Tapes
  
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Now, we just have to discover what "iceberg calving" is.

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- Sometimes a mommy ice shelf loves a daddy ice shelf
  
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  So... I am going to get that new little ice-brother I've been wanting!
  
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- “breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.”
  
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- So basically the planet is burning.
  
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  No, it's calving! Lots of little baby calf icebergs are being born.
  
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Didn't we already know this?

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ahhhh nuts

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This will be my new notification sound

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Spicy!

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