Golden Gate Bridge 'sings' after redesign

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4 жыл бұрын

Perplexed Bay Area residents have reported hearing an ominous ringing noise emanating from the Golden Gate Bridge, which can be heard in videos taken miles away. The phenomenon is caused by wind passing through newly-installed railings designed to reduce wind resistance
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@guardiannews 4 жыл бұрын

'A giant wheezing kazoo': Golden Gate Bridge starts to 'sing' after design fix ► www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco-sings

@reevesterry47 4 жыл бұрын

When did it start to happen

@danecobain 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like it's summoning Siren Head, that's all we need this year.

@hayleymailman5149 4 жыл бұрын

omfg-

@nador3107 4 жыл бұрын

Omg jajajaj

@reevesterry47 4 жыл бұрын

You know i hate siren head

@gloriastefani6816 4 жыл бұрын

O mio dio

@HarrimusPrime 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine that at night 😬

@fjell6543 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@okokok1178 4 жыл бұрын

Blup Blup yep, just no

@TheMrbeasely 4 жыл бұрын

Should sound the same as during the day...

@HarrimusPrime 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrbeasely alright ya clever sausage 💁🏼‍♂️

@savedfaves 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrbeasely But blacker ;-)

@Jake-gy7qo 4 жыл бұрын

Sound like horror movie sound track

@john3530 4 жыл бұрын

Lol, not the feedback they were going for.

@curioticgamer1723 4 жыл бұрын

jake it’s siren head

@emsmac80 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@ivancorts6966 4 жыл бұрын

Horror???? i find it very relaxing...

@Mirandorl 4 жыл бұрын

Used to work as a vibrations engineer, and my job was to prevent metal work failing due to noise and vibration. Can't say for sure but high volume vibration like that is likely going to lead to metal fatigue and cause something to fail. Especially if its loud because its setting off the bridge's "resonant frequency" and the bridge is ringing in sympathy with the noise. This seems likely given how far away it can be heard.

@michaellilley6725 4 жыл бұрын

Just what I was about to point out myself💢💥👍👏

@dalesnale 4 жыл бұрын

My thought too. That is disturbingly loud. I reckon wind tunnel tests did not consider the higher frequencies that do not cause the actual span to vibrate at very low frequency (like the Tacomas Narrows Bridge). I'm an audio engineer and have seen metal fatigue damage to stamped metal speaker frames in this frequency range after many years of vibration. The resonant frequency here is 420 to 500hz with a wavelength roughly 0.77meters . I reckon, dampening by adding mass, cutting holes , or tacking on dampeners in under engineering investigation.

@leolayton8611 4 жыл бұрын

Don’t say that in 2020. Seems like everything bad is happening this year

@michaellilley6725 4 жыл бұрын

@@leolayton8611 And all by DESIGN!!

@anon3308 4 жыл бұрын

👍

@lovepreetgill5368 4 жыл бұрын

Engineer : let's make it more aerodynamic. Bridge: imma bout to end this man's whole career

@yaxl 4 жыл бұрын

Chris Morris voice: _This is the one thing we didn't want to happen_

@goofed86 4 жыл бұрын

2020 - Wait there's more

@nycwizrd8348 4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Mothman coming to the bridge at nite with that horror music lol

@husker3345 4 жыл бұрын

It never stops

@HowlingWolf518 4 жыл бұрын

@@nycwizrd8348 A man of culture, I see.

@Excify1130 4 жыл бұрын

2020: *no....there is another*

@eyebeebak 4 жыл бұрын

That's the same sound I make everytime I pay $8 to cross that bridge.

@miroslav.boljevic 4 жыл бұрын

There's a toll to cross the bridge?

@fahlou2019 4 жыл бұрын

Miroslav Boljević if you drive back to SF yes. It’s $7.35 if you have a pass or $8.20 without it.

@AhBeeDoi 4 жыл бұрын

@@miroslav.boljevic Yup, I believe it's to support the bus lines and ferries that are supposed to reduce congestion on the bridge.

@Ormigadesign 4 жыл бұрын

Wait, is that new? In 2012 when I was there last I didn't have to pay toll... :/

@Trendyflute 4 жыл бұрын

@@Ormigadesign The bridge was tolled both ways from its opening in 1937, but starting in 1968 tolling was only charged for southbound traffic. Fastrak lanes, which read an electronic pass at low speeds, were added in 2002; 2013 was the year when the last staffed toll taker booths were closed and all southbound tolling was converted to Fastrak. So I'm guessing if you didn't pay a toll in 2012, you were either heading northbound, or you took advantage of the Fastrak lanes heading southbound!

@meandyouagainstthealgorith5787 4 жыл бұрын

Suppose you were driving over a bridge and you began hearing the tune of "London Bridge is..."

@discipletabitha1724 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking more like the tune of Full House...

@McD5791 4 жыл бұрын

Only a problem if you're in London...

@uploadcentral4872 4 жыл бұрын

Funny

@nkg___5172 4 жыл бұрын

can someone make a 1 hour version of this

@fruitygarlic3601 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, it's definitely got range. But the bridge is such a theater kid.

@The-San-Francisco-Treat 10 ай бұрын

I agree✨

@nachogalaxy9306 4 жыл бұрын

No one: sounds of minecaft in a cave:

@pamward1623 4 жыл бұрын

The perfect vibrations can cause buildings to crumble or liquify 😬

@trentwerner366 4 жыл бұрын

Supposedly, upgrades to the bridge to prolong its life and keep it sturdy, are the cause of this new noise.

@topherlilly2985 4 жыл бұрын

The sound coming from the bridge are a result of a project "designed to make the bridge more aerodynamic under high wind conditions and is necessary to ensure the safety and structural integrity of the bridge for generations to come,"

@trentwerner366 4 жыл бұрын

Topher Lilly I like how the project was originally set out to make the bridge better, but they somehow made the thing worse 😂 iRoNic

@arnolddalby5552 4 жыл бұрын

Great but does it do requests.

@alliekingsley7919 4 жыл бұрын

I find the first video oddly soothing. Wouldn't want to be any closer than where the video's being filmed, but it'd lull me right to sleep because it drowns out my tinnitus.

@cy5941 4 жыл бұрын

@Jurassic Coast Comics She meant 1st clip from this video :)

@jameslee4845 4 жыл бұрын

I need to move there now. I'd sleep under the bridge to help with my tinnitus

@alliekingsley7919 4 жыл бұрын

@@jameslee4845 I typically listen to Rainy Mood type things and they help a lot, as does having a box fan somewhere in the room.

@alliekingsley7919 4 жыл бұрын

@@cy5941 Yes, thank you for clarifying my comment! 💖

@aidenc1998 4 жыл бұрын

2020 the year that aliens design a bridge

@swright7377 4 жыл бұрын

Lol no, it's just the wind blowing against the strings

@adamuppsala1931 4 жыл бұрын

this bridge was actually designed by a Polish engineer, not the aliens!!

@I_Shit_on_your_shit_point 4 жыл бұрын

Adam Uppsala Thats the best the OP could come up with kinda sad

@timstruppi7897 4 жыл бұрын

Why didnt residents hear this while building phase? This will make you seriously sick, destroy your homes value and makes you move!

@orlandonunez7492 4 жыл бұрын

This was just added from a recent project.

@lolmandos 4 жыл бұрын

if this lowers SF home value that'd be a blessing to the city

@moth3506 4 жыл бұрын

this reminds me of that episode of spongebob where he creates giant statues of himself

@unclebels 4 жыл бұрын

Permanent David Lynch sound

@phily8093 4 жыл бұрын

That's a very irritating sound.

@uploadcentral4872 4 жыл бұрын

A song to go along with all the people who hear voices in their heads.

@martinajuarez4641 4 жыл бұрын

People saying this is scary and for me it sounds like a tibethan bowl

@catalinacurio 4 жыл бұрын

The bridge is protesting trump! 👏👏👏

@catalinacurio 4 жыл бұрын

kathydee The 3rd of November is my birthday, this one gonna be the best one ever! 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥂🍾 🥳 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

@channelhasbeenabandonednow3364 4 жыл бұрын

Bay bridge be like: Why is my Close bridge friend making these sounds

@yegorasha 4 жыл бұрын

It's an interesting spectral triplet sound 480 +/- 40 Hz.

@CH-zr7qr 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the Onion video of sudden ominous music being heard across the country.

@matthaynes2761 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly 😳

@Carmenifold 3 жыл бұрын

i miss when the onion was satire

@SousTerre1 4 жыл бұрын

See you all again in 3 years.

@barbaramoignard6082 4 жыл бұрын

That would drive me mad

@uploadcentral4872 4 жыл бұрын

Or in some people madder.

@BD12 3 жыл бұрын

those are the voices of all the people who tossed themselves over the edge

@bandfromtheband9445 3 жыл бұрын

It's perfect! It's beautifully eerie to hear such sounds coming off of an amazing and iconic structure in such a beautiful setting! I love hearing this!

@surendyvanderoord9559 4 жыл бұрын

siren head comfirrmed?

@kittylikemebluejay9723 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@nashw_1828 4 жыл бұрын

Damn I just noticed that the bridge was actually making this sound...

@ymynameynotyourname9641 4 жыл бұрын

Its a nice sound. But can you also hear rivets falling out? Hope not.

@Jordan-tx6kv 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the Singing Towets of Derilium!

@sondrayork6317 4 жыл бұрын

the vertical arm, that has square holes in it, so when the wind hits it, it whistles. take a coach's whistle, blow hard into it, and that's how you get that noise. it could also be that the wind is trapped underneath the structure causing the trumpeting type sounds too.

@isabellabecker307 4 жыл бұрын

My mom got so mad at me for showing her this lol

@The-San-Francisco-Treat 10 ай бұрын

Why?!😂

@FortytourVlog 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful bridge friendship....

@marsianmarsh8786 4 жыл бұрын

Another disaster on the way?

@westsidewarrior7285 4 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@thehumancrayon3264 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sure, why not. Pile it on, 2020.

@dpac9964 4 жыл бұрын

All the rich people moving out of San Francisco, wonder what they know that we don't?

@orlandonunez7492 4 жыл бұрын

That there’s cheaper land else where that’s worth the money

@atheismSucks Жыл бұрын

TSUNAMI 🌊 JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING

@kathybauman6708 4 жыл бұрын

Silence is Golden

@Parookz 4 жыл бұрын

imagine if it starts to "sing" in the hall of the mountain king and ctulhu starts rising from the sea

@christopherellis2663 4 жыл бұрын

"Open up That Golden Gate...." San Francisco, Sci-fi ! 🖤 🐈 🎶 🎼 🐱

@kathybauman6708 4 жыл бұрын

High on the hill it calls to me 🎶 Above the blue & windy sea 🎶

@chicanopowers4938 4 жыл бұрын

They should really figure out what frequency it's putting out and the amount of vibration being exacted on the structure.

@RaymondHng 4 жыл бұрын

A model was already tested in a wind tunnel.

@xnopyt13 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone a mile away from the bridge: why do I hear boss music?

@michaelcallinan464 4 жыл бұрын

Stunning!

@juanvargas-qz6vd 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder what type of animals will that sound attract and what kind will it hurt

@kadenvanciel9335 4 жыл бұрын

I think the sound frequency and spectrum need to be analyzed.

@user-yn8uv8dt7b 3 жыл бұрын

What instrument do you play? Wind: *Bridge*

@xxclusive8380 4 жыл бұрын

5mile radius and all wildlife will scatter... Concrete jungle.

@knightchallenger 3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully next year I'll take a trip to san Francisco to hear and make a video on this sweet sound

@JustInvertedFpv 4 жыл бұрын

The bridge sounds like an America's Cup foiling catamaran doing 40knots now! 😂

@tutilcho 4 жыл бұрын

I got PhD on cable vibrarions and this is definitely unwanted behaviour. What we hear is an obvious resonance and what every engineer wants on his structure is exactly the opposite. Engineer wants all the parts to not have common resonance frequencies and the excitation from the environment to be very unlikely. Clearly maintanance costs will rise. I have not idea what are the conditions for this to heppend ut the most dangerouse conditiona are when rain and wind meet each other. Then the drops form wing profile while dripping away from the structure (cable etc.) Hopefully they will fix it soon.

@ld9487 4 жыл бұрын

This the equivalent to hear the boss music when entering in his territoy

@HavendaleBlvd80 4 жыл бұрын

What a nightmare.

@TheEstowrath 3 жыл бұрын

RIP to all the jumpers.

@jtazevedo7104 4 жыл бұрын

Wow

@Sxnnetwashere 4 жыл бұрын

It looks like I’m in a horror movie

@RS265trophy 4 жыл бұрын

maddening......

@murdechoc 4 жыл бұрын

I would totally go there to record this with high quality microphones. But it must be really annoying for the people living there...

@jephninety5434 3 жыл бұрын

I drive over the bridge twice a day, almost seven days a week. I'd never heard the sound before and couldn't imagine not noticing the sound, or the sound never being part of the folklore of SF and the GGB. I thought maybe I'd been transported to another dimension or a parallel Earth. I'm VERY relieved to find that the singing (reminds me of whalesong) is a new thing. I hope the vibrations aren't going to eventually damage anything because it's eerie but incredibly beautiful and is a gift from the cosmos.

@annafero3376 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think it happens all the time. Just when the wind is blowing at the right angle. I don’t usually hear it either, but yesterday the bridge was singing so loudly I could hear it from Lower Pac Heights / Nopa!

@SpiderGuy38 4 жыл бұрын

I want this to be one of the last remaining structures after humanity is gone, have it to continue to make that noise and baffle alien archaeologists for centuries.

@helenfotopoulou5125 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@The-San-Francisco-Treat 10 ай бұрын

YESSSSSS

@eddylorenzo5033 4 жыл бұрын

Angles playing the grand harpsicle harp

@darrenkhosasi1252 4 жыл бұрын

The souls of the deceased are possessing the bridge as they are begging to be free

@uploadcentral4872 4 жыл бұрын

Thats an odd comment.

@jimromey4234 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure why they tampered with perfection, but the redesign of the railing for the GGB has produced a new "Sound of the City". And so it goes ...

@Musicradio77Network 4 жыл бұрын

When I was down in New York before going to Florida, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge doesn’t sing.

@northmanmartin5186 4 жыл бұрын

imagine someone copyright that sound as bgm on some youtube videos.

@DrunkUncle1917 4 жыл бұрын

No one: Yt: watch a bridge sing

@community1949 4 жыл бұрын

Well did they fix this?

@imbatman4967 4 жыл бұрын

Winds howling

@twohandsandaradio 4 жыл бұрын

Ah the humor of unintended consequences....

@TheCRTman 4 жыл бұрын

I heard it loud & clear in the sunset district yesterday while walking. It sounds kinda amazing.

@jawbone6907 4 жыл бұрын

minecradt cave ambient sound be like:

@andresfeliciano 4 жыл бұрын

Maaaad ominous 😳😳 it’s like a warning siren for gentrification

@thecapricorn11 4 жыл бұрын

that happened years ago the techies are actually heading outta here

@JohnLRice 4 жыл бұрын

Are they sure it's not just a MOTS concert? ;-) Modular On The Spot are (sometimes unauthorized) electronic music concerts that happen in various public locations like parks where musicians bring modular synthesizers and perform a wide array of styles such as drone, noise, ambient, melodic, and beat orientated music/sound.

@michas.7435 4 жыл бұрын

Someone should record it in a high quality and than use it in some movie as a soundtrack

@tulutututu5613 4 жыл бұрын

Haha i prefer the initial title which was "eerie noises" instead of "sings"...😨😱😄

@mw1276 4 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell how annoying 🤣

@Brett_S_420 4 жыл бұрын

That is definitely weird.

@USStateOfSiberiaGHWBush1992 5 ай бұрын

Near... far... wherever you are...

@NiceBoyrealmusic 4 жыл бұрын

Probably steel slipping or cable activity

@natakawilliams2444 4 жыл бұрын

Am i crazy for being reminded of ps1 game opening

@therealhellkitty5388 4 жыл бұрын

Can you say, “Galloping Gertie?”

@TheDanksNewGroove 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds badass. Hope they keep it forever.

@hotburnouts317 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the sound that was used on mob of the dead in bo2 zombies near pack a punch

@Agnethatheredhairkid 4 жыл бұрын

The bridge needs to be given a recording contract. It makes a better noise than today's singers.

@The-San-Francisco-Treat 10 ай бұрын

LITERALLY FACTS

@mikeomolt4485 4 жыл бұрын

Anybody want to buy a bridge?

@tocadordegaita7792 4 жыл бұрын

Tem algum br aí?

@aubreygrammar1328 4 жыл бұрын

This might attract aliens.

@uploadcentral4872 4 жыл бұрын

Already has...

@diduseethat3191 4 жыл бұрын

pff it’s hovering above the brindge, fun you cannot see it

@wojciechkosnik-kowalczuk9401 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine MINDHUNTER music accompanying you everywhere you go in the middle of the night

@tima7756 3 жыл бұрын

David Lynch is just filming S4 of Twin Peaks

@mullenmusings1018 4 жыл бұрын

this just makes the bridge even cooler imo, I live 4 miles from it. Beats some of the lame art projects down around here.

@FH-wi6ek 4 жыл бұрын

How awful this must be for the wild like and noise pollution. Nobody really cares about the planet let’s be honest

@Teresa4212 4 жыл бұрын

Er, where were the acoustic engineers? :-)

@ashleyholmes7616 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Ned Flanders hover bike noise

@annafero3376 Жыл бұрын

The Golden Gate Bridge was singing so loudly all day yesterday! I went on a hike at Point Bonitas and the sound was pretty unnerving. When I got back to my apartment in Nopa, I could still hear it! Wild. Sounds like aliens landing in a sci-fi movie.