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Tagged with audio internal-consistency
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"AC" compressed air?
So, compressed air power is a Thing. Compressed air tools are reasonably common, and compressed air has even been delivered commercially as an industrial utility at times.
But all existing compressed-...
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How to hide this underground city from seismologists, oil prospectors, and ground surveying projects?
In my previous question Would this underground city be noticed by seismologists?, it was established that a Goblin city in one of my settings would probably not go unnoticed do to the meddling of ...
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Would this underground city be noticed by seismologists?
The setting is current day Los Angeles... except for the goblin city that exists beneath it. Its chambers range from about 500-2000ft underground and has a population of several thousand. A lot of ...
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How close to the Sun would you have to be to hear it?
Taken from this fascinating answer:
The Sun is immensely loud. The surface generates thousands to tens of
thousands of watts of sound power for every square meter. That's
something like 10x to ...
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Dissipating sonic booms
Alastair Reynolds is a contemporary sci-fi writer whose works often demonstrate a strong grip on science as it presently stands. Recently, I picked up his book On The Steel Breeze for a quick re-read ...
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Planet-wide vocalizations: is there a natural limit preventing it?
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I recently recalled when the Chelyabinsk meteor crashed overhead in 2013. The pressure wave was immense. The infrasounds, as recorded by nuclear missile detectors, appeared to traverse the ...
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Underwater acoustic muffling/dampening and sonar evasion. Is a stealth torpedo possible?
So I have various factions with submarines and surface ships battling it out for control over various underwater resources.
One of the rarer and more lethal weapons is a "stealth torpedo". It ...
