1: Percent of people who said they would “call the police upon hearing a car alarm”
95: Estimated percent of alarms set off by “vibrations of passing trucks or glitches in the car’s electrical system”
31: Number of days of satellite imagery in a NASA sonificaton project that resulted in a “a waltz-inspired melody.”
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¹Footnotes
Alarms: clivethompson.medium.com. NASA: nasa.gov.
Originally published in the June 20, 2022, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter. Get it in your inbox via tinyletter.com/disquiet.