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Are there animal teeth that make alien sounds?
There's this old trope where an alien being has a name that "can't be pronounced by the human tongue", but no one (afaik) has ever done the work to make that scientifically possible. Now, I'...
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How much energy it would be required to propel a projectile with sound? Would it be lethal to its user?
Context: in a scenario where batteries suddenly became extremely energy dense due to some events between the main characters, I was thinking about which electromagnetic weapons I could use, such as ...
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Use of Sound in a Radio and Electric Communication Enabled Species
Alright, so I was bouncing ideas off the wall about how the society of a species (maybe genetically modified humans?) with biological radio communication and electric field communication would look ...
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Would dragons be able to purr?
My dragons have a... "difficult" personality.
They're very catlike. Sure, they're more like KrimsonRogue's cat (somewhere around chaotic good). But, if I want to make my dragons smug, blue-...
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How could a ballistic mask provide full protection without compromising the wearer's singing voice?
So, I'm having trouble with one of my character designs.
Guardian angels are former humans who died in such dumb ways that Heaven simply couldn't let them in, not before they proved they can prevent ...
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On Siren Head's sonic attacks
At this point, roughly 98% of D&D SRD monsters are on the good side in my setting, I mean, they're too cool. So, I decided to throw something less cool, scary, intimidating and evil that's ...
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How can our boss play his theme song in (almost) any environment?
So. our boss is kinda... nuts. His current pet project is to create a device that can play his theme song whenever his location is revealed to someone within a 50 meter radius. Naturally, he ...
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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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How quiet can a static, non-propulsive pulsejet be?
The wizards of Magitechia have discovered that the deflagration or detonation of certain chemical compounds have beneficial supernatural effects, that are useful for powering magical apparatuses. ...
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Music Dragonfly via Perforations in Wings
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I'm designing a prehistoric-dragonfly that has little holes or perforations in its wings. When the wind flows through them, they make music (the viability of flying with these wings will be ...
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How can an optical signal be converted into a mechanical/acoustic signal without using electricity?
There are several ways to directly convert acoustic/mechanic signals into optic signals (e.g. opening/closing a shutter, or the acousto-optic effect). Is there any way to do the reverse, without using ...
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Sound From a Super Nova
Let's say there exists an alternate reality from ours that is identical in every aspect save for one. There exists a substance in space that allows for the transmission of sound. Let's call this ...
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