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		wincy on Oct 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped I’d imagine the amount of energy you’d have to push into the water would be insane to hear it 1500 miles away, wouldn’t it?

naavis on Oct 18, 2022 [–]

Whale noises travel thousands of kilometers underwater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_vocalization

totalZero on Oct 19, 2022 | [–]

There's an inverse relationship between wavelength and range, and the higher the frequency the better the resolution.

https://acousticstoday.org/wavelength

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