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Inglés 7:16 Science & Tech

How Soviet Smugglers Fought Censorship With X-Rays

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Have you ever heard someone say  they had music “in their bones”?

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Well, if you were living in  the USSR post-World War 2,

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and that person was a fan of, say, jazz,

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that person could have said they  had music written on their bones.

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Or, at least, written onto X-rays  of a complete stranger’s bones,

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cut into a disk and carved to  resemble a very floppy record.

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This was bone music.

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And while it might not be the next vintage  tech audiophiles are racing to listen to,

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the story behind it is pretty darn cool.

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Life under Joseph Stalin’s  regime wasn’t exactly chill.

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Before, during, and after World  War 2, the Soviet government

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leaned heavily on censorship of all sorts,

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and banned ever more kinds of music.

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But human beings love music.

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It’s a huge part of who we are.

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So Soviet citizens were not willing to give it up,

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even under threat of imprisonment.

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In those days, the music  recording technology du jour

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was the aptly-named record.

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Which if you think about it for a moment,

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is kind of an amazing scientific achievement.

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Humans have been living on Earth  for hundreds of thousands of years,

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making every kind of noise from annoyed  groans to orchestral symphonies.

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But unless you were born within  the past 150 years or so,

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your only option to hear any  of it was to hear it live.

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The first part of making a record involves  finding a way to copy down sound waves

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into a physical medium.

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That’s relatively straightforward,

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because sound waves are physical waves

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that move through the air  and interact with objects.

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They are literally ripples in the air  that our brains interpret as noise.

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In fact, the oldest known  recording of a human voice…

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