Is It the Resonant Frequency of a Hard Drive?

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The amount of bass you would need to break a laptop sitting next to it would be way beyond the capability of like a 2005 era laptop. Reformation has that frequency buried in there? Yep. It is not buried. It's these couple of sustained piercing synthesizer notes. And this third sustained one is at right about 2000 Hertz, which if that was the resonant frequency of that one particular hard drive, it happens enough in the song where it could knock it out of whack.

The whole conceit of this show is that if look at the world in the right way, you’ll see stories everywhere. Some of the stories are epic power struggles chronicling the construction of a famous skyscraper or the founding of a city; but other stories are more modest, smaller in scope and scale. We call those mini-stories and they're part of an ongoing, end-of-the-year tradition in which 99pi producers and friends of the show talk to host Roman Mars about something cool and fun that you can tell your friends or family about during a holiday get together.

You’ll hear about a very, very long escalator! Beavers dropping from the sky! We’ll hear from Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty! Plus a visit from the queen!

Mini-Stories 15: Volume 15