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xkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether

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Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.

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Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.
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[–] 108 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Sound is funny. At lower frequencies it behaves increasingly similarly to air i.e. wrapping around obstacles instead of just reflecting. At 0Hz sound is just the local air pressure and the weather forecast is technically sheet music.

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