Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 27, 2012

All these years I thought theremin was a vitamin supplement.:)

feed my corpse to the dolphins (even if the sharks do end up eating me)

Theremin? Sort of like a Moog?

It makes sense to leave a body to be scavenged. Everything is disposable so why not keep the circle of life happening. In Oz if you cremate the body, I guess the illegitimate government and it’s illegitimate carbon tax will apply. I suspect this post will attract a comment from some true Canadian liberals. But who cares?.

What’s the ‘porpoise’ tasting sweet things? They can taste “Sweet Nothings”.

Wow…I wonder how many $millions were spent to find out dolphins don’t have a sweet tooth.

If you’ve seen, "The Day The Earth Stood Still’, you’ve heard a Theremin playing. ( It starts when Gort shows up )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aK8I-CDQGQ

Here’s Leon Theremin playing his own instrument. No not that instrument. It’s just the Utube title… You will have to cut and paste since I haven’t figured how to make the link hot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qf9O6c20o.

Theremin also invented some eavesdropping devices. One device bounced an infrared beam off of a window. Another evaded detection because the power source came from radio waves. In effect, it had no power source except when it was in use. It operated similar to today’s RFID devices.

Someone just told me a Theremin was used on the Led Zep song, Whole Lotta Love

A theremin was used in “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys. They used a slide whistle when they performed it on “American Bandstand”.

Who, may I ask, became a dolphin to find out they can’t taste sweet things?

;)

Well, if they can’t taste sweet, my g/f is definitely safe from them…myself, on the other hand….

Here’s another link to watch a young woman play a Theremin:

http://www.ted.com/talks/pamelia_kurstin_plays_the_theremin.html

Theremin was also a soviet spy for lenin and used his time in the USA to “ravage” our patent department of the US government. That’s how the soviets got so many secrets back then, it was WIDE open.

The theremin was NOT used in the Star Trek theme. That was a human voice. The musical term for that sort of singing is vocalise.

Also played in “Good Vibrations.”

Leon Theramin also invented espionage equipment for his native Russia.

They didn’t actually use a theremin on Star Trek, though the sound is similar – but Sheldon plays one on Big Bang Theory

Why substitute another voice for one you’ve had in the can since 1966? The original vocalist could be long dead, the recordings don’t evaporate upon death…