This one in via Gerard. In the simplest terms, the GCP Basket Observer is an audio generator that triggers sounds fed to it from random generators throughout the world. GCP stands for the Global Consciousness Project."The purpose of the project was and is to create and document a consistent database of parallel streams of random numbers generated by high-quality physical sources. The goal is to determine whether any correlations might be detectable of statistics from these data with independent long-term physical or sociological variables. In the original experimental design we asked the more limited question whether there is a detectable correlation of deviations from randomness with the occurrence of major events in the world."
In short: random generators that somehow are not so random during major events:
CBS News segment on the Global Consciousness Project
YouTube via GCPvideos
"Correspondent Brendan Keefe reports on the Global Consciousness Project for CBS News2 NY May 13, 2005"
Check out the eerie hartbeat at the GCP Basket Observer
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