After a great deal of international effort and years of work to analyse the tracking data, the explanation was revealed to be a more mundane effect – it was the excess heat bouncing off the back of the spacecraft's main antenna.
It's got lean and digitally treated guitar riffs or sometimes the forlorn sound of an out-of-tune nylon-string; funky rhythm ideas (LCD Soundsystem fans will respond to the grooves), mundane sound effects like telephone dial tones and smokers' coughs.
Display cases laid out on three floors of a renovated town house are full of weapons, stark photographs of life in the trenches, and soldiers' mundane personal effects like forks and canteens bear moving witness to the war cursed by soldiers on every side.
The chambers are visually uninteresting — dark, empty spaces, the few furnishings cheap and mundane; in effect, there is nothing here to look at.
Time and again moments of potential solemnity are deflated by some mundane detail, the effect of which is a kind of constant assertion of the lifelike over the "literary".
There's real pleasure to be had watching the worlds of the living and the dead intermingle, and Ozpetek handles the supernatural elements with ease, balancing the magic and the mundane to rewarding effect.
Although she recognized Aguilera's potential as a vocalist, she wrote "The songs themselves are terrible, dated club tracks, overwhelmed by poor effects and mundane beats".
Jonathan Katz of Washington University in St .Louis, Missouri, has another, equally mundane explanation for the effect: He thinks it may be due to waste heat from the radioactive power source aboard the spacecraft.
An opinion has been expressed that reduction of iodine uptake is not the best end point for risk assessment because the effect is mundane and can be caused by other chemicals (Belzer RB, Bruce GM, Peterson MK, Pleus RC, unpublished data, 2003; Bruce et al. 2005).
