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Why can't they triangulate it? Too deep to go?
by anotheryou 10y ago
Why can't they triangulate it? Too deep to go?
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoSound doesn't always travel in a straight line in the ocean. Different depths (pressures), different water temperatures, different salinity... they can all change the speed of propagation to some degree. Currents may also bend sound. Triangulation assumes that the sound traveled from the source to you at constant velocity in a straight line.
- anotheryou 10y agoI thought of something mobile, so you can home in. But very interesting to learn it can be bend and reflects so much .
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI don't know if it's "so much". I can think of several causes, but I don't know how big the overall effect is.
- imglorp 10y agoA good question at least is, did it show up on any seismograph or hydrophone networks?
- jjoonathan 10y agoEven if it did, they're probably not going to say anything because they don't want to give away their capabilities and/or they were responsible for it in the first place.