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I tend to think dolphins communicating might have a huge technical advantage: Water transports waves way more exact and farer. Also the ability of echolocation
by noiv 11y ago
I tend to think dolphins communicating might have a huge technical advantage: Water transports waves way more exact and farer. Also the ability of echolocation points to a far better usable bandwidth. Humans read, speak and listen at a few bytes per second. What if dolphins send/receive information magnitudes faster?
Just imagine you could clearly hear everyone speaking within a radius of let's say one mile, regardless of walls or other sound absorbers. We would be forced to compress sentences into tiny time slices to avoid overlaps and distortion.
Just a thought...
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoApparently they communicate in 3D with images. Considering what images are available to them ("Rock", "fish", "Another dolphin", "another fish") maybe they're not saying much that's so fascinating.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoThis was mentioned in Cosmos. Time was when whales could communicate flawlessly almost around the entire circumference of the earth. Then human sea travel, especially motor-powered ships, basically acted as a really loud fan that makes it hard to communicate over. So yes, they can stil talk over long distances, but the difference is between the ability to call someone on the phone, and jury-rigging one with two cups and a string.