This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to the attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that are available. An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but have you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn? How about the Northern and Southern lights? The sounds of pulsars are startling in their almost artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the echoes of the Big Bang from the microwave spectrum. As a young child I remember being under attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky believers and to counter this my parents encouraged me to learn about Science. I befriended a local science teacher who taught me astronomy (I was about 9 years old at the time) and also a fellow from the local phone company who taught me electronics where my father’s abilities left off. I mention this here because one of the first things I did was scrounge up a huge dish from an old satellite ground station and modify it to become a small radio telescope in my back yard. One of the first things I picked up was the Smoot radiation from the big bang and actually hearing the echoes of the creation of the universe hooked me for life. I then started to write software on an old Apple 2E to decode that radiation and generate both numeric and visual representations of the background radiation which could paint a picture of how the massive ripples of the expansion of space and time echoed across over 13.5 billion years. It’s such a good way for a blind person, especially children to connect with the wonders of nature and science which sometimes can be painfully visual. If there’s any interest and nobody objects about it being off topic I would be happy to post links to some of this audio and big thanks to Janina for pointing this out.
> On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want > to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired > people experience this upcoming celestial event: > > https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html > > The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore. > I haven't checked, though. > > Enjoy! > > Janina > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:[email protected] > Email: [email protected] > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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