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It was loud enough to make the birds take off in alarm. So I expect most wildlife was startled by the noise. You can't compensate a shrew.
by monk_e_boy 10y ago
It was loud enough to make the birds take off in alarm. So I expect most wildlife was startled by the noise. You can't compensate a shrew.
- davidw 10y agoI suspect that in the grand scheme of ways humans displace and cause problems for animals, sonic booms are not high on the list. I mean, you wrote that you lived there - so presumably you lived in a house, accessible from a paved road. Those things take habitat away from animals.
- monk_e_boy 10y agoYou want supersonic travel and sonic booms. I want the travel without the boom. It's then just an engineering exercise to remove it. Fly above the atmosphere. Travel in a vacuum tube. Make travelling more interesting so long travel times aren't an issue.
- davidw 10y agoI just want people to be able to try stuff. I don't want sonic booms, but I think that the economic path from here to there is an evolutionary one, rather than making a quantum leap from booms to no booms. So to get there, you have to put up with some noise.