The Sound of Sea Monkeys - Preliminary Research
For the purposes of clarity, all instances of the term “brine shrimp” have been replaced with the more accurate term – Sea Monkeys. -Ed.
I once even herded Sea Monkeys into a pack to capture the quality of their movements.
- Interview with Stan Brakhage at smoc.net
The first thing I noticed was the sound – like Sea Monkeys when you snorkel or dive in the ocean or a scratched up old record. My ear also felt very warm but not too hot.
- Report on ear candling at RevolutionHealth.com
It is very very hard to eliminate the interconnection between the experimenter and the plants being tested. Even the briefest association with the plants—just a few hours—is enough to let them become attuned to you. Then, even though you automate the experiment and leave the laboratory, and even though you set a time delay switch for random intervals, guaranteeing you are entirely unaware of when the experiment starts, the plants will remain attuned to you, no matter where you go. At first, my partner and I used to go to a bar a block away, and after a time we began to grow suspicious that the plants were not responding to the death of the Sea Monkeys at all, but instead to the rising and falling levels of excitement in our conversations. Finally, we came up with a way around this. We had someone else buy the plants, and store them in another part of the building we didn’t frequent. On the day of the experiment we went to the holding area, brought the plants in, hooked them up, and left. This meant the plants were in a strange environment, they had the pressure of the electrodes, they had a little trickle of electricity going through their leaves, and they’d been deserted. Because they were not attuned to us or to anyone else, they began “looking around” for anything that would acquaint them with their environment. Then, and only then, did something so subtle as the deaths of the Sea Monkeys get picked up by the plants.
- Report on responsiveness of plants to the death of Sea Monkeys (the Backster Effect) at Unexplained-Mysteries.com
The U.S. military’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program has supplied Jumars with a grant of more than $103,000 to continue his groundbreaking work in the utilization of sonar technology, which seeks to establish reliable techniques for monitoring the movements of Sea Monkeys as they carry out their daily migrations from the shelter of the ocean floor to the waters above and back. “I basically study what the people who identify undersea mines call noise. Their noise has become my signal,” said Jumars. “My Office of Naval Research Program Officers have been impressed by how dense the swarms of migrating Sea Monkeys can be. This is definitely not a small problem when it comes to using acoustics for local area search…..
- Article on military research into sound of clouds of Sea Monkeys on the ocean floor at ScienceDaily.com
Sounds of most of the other marine organisms that create auditory signals – for example, the vibrations made when tiny Sea Monkeys swim are involved in the discharge of the stinging capsules of sea anemones that prey on them are of such short range that they would not be useful in observing systems … However, most marine organisms do not create sound.
- Journal article on the development of acoustic sensors to be used to identify marine organisms based on sounds they produce at the University of Kansas, USA