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> I can't work out why it's contentious Echolocation is contentious because people assume it's to do with timing. Humans can't time the echo in a room. Ech
by aaron695 4y ago
> I can't work out why it's contentious
Echolocation is contentious because people assume it's to do with timing.
Humans can't time the echo in a room.
Echolocation by humans is using the head as a dampener between the ears to get direction/distance by diffing the ears on noise not time.
Is my understanding.
You could see why people who think it's related to timing like the classic submarine would obviously think it doesn't work with humans. You learn about the speed of sound at a young age and people know the brain can't handle that.
They might assume in a dark room people are using ambient noise and ambient echo's, not echolocation. With people using echolocation who are visually impaired in most articles they are not 100% blind so you are not sure what mix is going on.
Most articles aren't explaining this well.
- spindle 4y agoAh! That makes sense, and was not what I was expecting at all. Thank you for explaining!