Here’s a really cool science factoid: if you turn any old radio or TV that is not tuned to any station, a percentage of that white noise you hear is the sound of the Big Bang, the moment of the creation of the Universe.
Here’s a cool video that explains it all.
Update: Apologies, we appear to have initially embedded the incorrect video; it’s fixed now.













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Pretty sure thats a video about cockroaches
Apparently the cockroach doesn’t give a shit about the origins of the universe either. This is one ignorant cockroach right here.
Who gives a shit about the Cockroach, there’s a goddamn Gecko in the video!
Heyyyyyy, who shaved that cockroaches legs?
These damned cockroaches first defying physics now interfering with the big bang! They are a menace!
So, to hear the big bang, all I have to do is shave a cockroach?
Enough cockroaches, here’s the Big Bang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZQ-5-KYHw&list=PLED25F943F8D6081C&index=1&feature=plcp
Apologies, that was the follow up video that Giz US posted. Here’s the actual video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kK-cIHnVg4&feature=player_embedded
“Did You Know That You Can Hear the Big Bang Using Any Old Radio or TV?”
Yes.
I think that would have been the first comment here, had we not had seen the ‘amazing’ cockroach trick.
It doesn’t really work when it follows a load of comments about cockroaches does it?
No, not really
It would have been the first comment if it weren’t for the fact that I do actually spend some time away from Giz.
Yes, yes I did.
Did you know that “factoid” does not mean what you think it means?
Either of these two definitions? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/factoid
We’re easy as to which meaning you take from it.
I tried this and all I get is voices.
Their the dead people that got killed by the big bang
It must be show and tell day at Giz US and Jesus has brought in a cockroach…. well done Jesus clever boy!!
I think you’ve got a cockroach infestation here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZQ-5-KYHw&feature=plcp
weird