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I'm willing to bet the name "Great Horned Owl" was purposeful for a vehicle where quiet is a priority. Owls have feathers which make them essentially silent in

• londons_explore 7y ago
  An owl still emits more acoustic energy per kilo-mile than a passenger jet.
  • hoseja 7y ago
    That's just a variant of the square-cube law. An owl the size of a passenger jet wouldn't.
    • nicoburns 7y ago
      Let's all just be thankful that there are no owls the size of passenger jets.
      • Piskvorrr 7y ago
        That's, again, the same law. It would break under its own weight.
    • ntsplnkv2 7y ago
      Can you explain this further?
      • SECProto 7y ago
        If you doubled the length of an owl (or any other object) by scaling it up, then it would quadruple (2²) the surface area, and octuple (2³) the volume. The parent comment seemed to be suggesting the noise would scale with the surface area, while mass scales with the volume. The latter is definitely true, but I don't know about the former