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There's speculation and then there's fantasy. Hypothetically you could build a detector sensitive enough and a set of algorithms robust enough to observe the vibrations of a single crystal and decode from them every sound being made on the entire surface of the earth. Just because something is not physically impossible does not make it realistic or keep it from being foolish.


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