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"somehow communicating via sound waves the speed, heading, and distance ..." You'll need to speak "whale" first with this awful scheme. A small whale is a few
by gerdesj 2y ago
"somehow communicating via sound waves the speed, heading, and distance ..."
You'll need to speak "whale" first with this awful scheme.
A small whale is a few tonnes in mass a large one can be 150 tonnes. That is very easy to detect via SONAR.
Funnily enough a few specialised Japanese and Chinese ships are capable of detecting whales with amazing accuracy to the point of delivering small warheads.
- bethekidyouwant 2y agoOf course sonar works, but there’s a human operator…
- khafra 2y agoNeed to speak whale to make this AI-powered scheme work? Sounds like a job for AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680899
- lupusreal 2y agoYou just need to broadcast a made-up word of phrase with similar tones as the whales use, without you knowing what this means to the whales. The same noise should be used every time. Whales are smart, so they will learn to associate that incoherent utterance with ships.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoThat doesn't help if the first time the whale hears it is when it gets run over by a tanker.
- lupusreal 2y agoThat would be statistically unlikely. Whales have far more safe encounters with ships than lethal ones. Persist in using the system for a while, on as many ships as possible, and the odds will get even better as time goes on. Whales aren't dumb, they'll figure it out and probably even tell each other about it.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoNo you don’t. You just need a consistent signal. It is how you can communicate information to a dog without speaking dog today.