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If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men
Sep 20, 2025 at 6:52pmWeb
Show threadjenbanimSep 20, 2025

This is how I spent my Friday evening alongside calculating how close you could get to the center of a black hole without dying or getting sucked in

What makes that interesting is smaller black holes produce gamma radiation so you have to balance shrinking the point of no return with radiation poisoning

By my estimate a black hole with a mass in kilograms between 1E14 and 1E15 (mid sized asteroid) are the sweet spot where you could get within 50ish meters if you don't mind a tiny bit of cancer

Show threadCorvid Space ProgramSep 21, 2025

@jenbanim

We're looking at the greatest polymath of our time here, folks

Show threadendrift ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim are we talking Schwarzschild, Kerr, or something even more exotic? Looks like the Schwarzschild radius of that is smaller than the size of a hydrogen atom, so uh,
Show threadjenbanimSep 23, 2025

@endrift Schwarzschild. I imagined the black hole as somehow ominously floating at shoulder height on the surface of Earth without sucking up anything on the ground. In that case I figured the lethal distance would be when the gravitational acceleration became stronger than that of Earth so you'd get yoinked off your feet

So such a small black hole would have a miniscule radius but a strong gravitational field and radiation at a distance of tens of meters

Show threadKay Ohtie ๐Ÿ”œ FWASep 20, 2025
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This sounds like listening to James Hoffman complaining about bad coffee lmao
Show threadjenbanimSep 20, 2025
@KayOhtie oh my God that's EXACTLY what it sounds like ๐Ÿ˜‚
Show threadKay Ohtie ๐Ÿ”œ FWASep 20, 2025
@jenbanim
My favorite Hames summary on that: https://youtu.be/Cksr-Xo8ktg
Pain

YouTube
Show threadjenbanimSep 20, 2025
@KayOhtie oh that's fantastic, hadn't seen that one before. That's a new favorite up there with A Mild Fruity Note
Show threadmalteSep 23, 2025
@KayOhtie @jenbanim related question: what's the ipa-symbol for *slurp*? ๐Ÿค”
Show threadAisling "the bastard of earth" FawnSep 21, 2025
@jenbanim DJ IPA Vowel Sounds got the whole club ou unh eh-ing
Show threadSimon dฤ“ Gulielmล ๐ŸงSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim Or a group of middle aged men standing up at the same time.
Show threadKrazovSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim The Sound Of The Internet Discourse, now on CD.
Show threadJake AverillSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim link for those that want to try this out themselves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio
IPA vowel chart with audio - Wikipedia

Show threadblinrySep 23, 2025
@jenbanim Have you seen https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/vocs/map.html ??! :D
Show threadMark DominusSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim https://soundcloud.com/jpiringer/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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I experimented with various AI-Text-To-Speech-Voices. i entered long strings of vowels (aaaaaaaa..., eeeeee..., etc). i made a composition out of these results. everything sound is completely without

SoundCloud
Show threadThomas KirchnerSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim Congratulations! You just invented German Rap again. Your track could well top the charts over here.
Show threadsijmenSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim ษ™
Show threadStefan IhringerSep 23, 2025

@jenbanim slightly related: do you know the "Pink Trombone"? It's an interactive mouth/throat/tongue that creates the corresponding sounds:

https://trombone.chromatone.center

Pink Trombone

Show threadjenbanimSep 23, 2025
@compfu yeah I've played with this before! Fun stuff
Show threadOriiyonSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim multiple times had I tried finding a webpage like this and never succeeded (especially tried looking on wikipedia) I feel so stupid its always been on wikipedia
Show threadVick Forcella โ„ข๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒณโ„๏ธโ˜‘๏ธ:verifiSep 23, 2025
@jenbanim Oh
Show thread ใ‚ธใ‚ฎใƒผใใ‚“Sep 24, 2025
@jenbanim The silence followed by a single [ษž] at the end is the funniest part to me for some reason. ๐Ÿคญ