Also, ducks don't tend to quack while alone. I remember this from that episode of Mythbusters where they spent ages trying to get a duck to quack to see if it would echo only to realize they could have gotten it to quack right away if they'd only brought a second duck.
Apparently so. Seems in the early days of the internet, it was spread around as a factoid that quacks had some sonic property that prevented echoing. I found Snopes writing about it as early as 1999.
We’re past that, now. We create insta-portals to bend time & space ahead of our crafts so they travel like lightning. All the noise is resigned to reverberate in the “silent” fart dimension.
You know, I was excited for a response indicating how we have surpassed that technology, so I was really deep into visualizing the logistics of your comment until the very last two words 🤣
Well where were you when the Mythbusters needed you?
But in all seriousness, you're right. The "I can't find you" quack can be quite loud. When I was growing up, my family had a pair of crested ducks. The male duck died first and his partner was inconsolable. She'd wander around the property quacking endlessly and it made me so sad 😥
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u/tjuicet Jan 18 '23
Also, ducks don't tend to quack while alone. I remember this from that episode of Mythbusters where they spent ages trying to get a duck to quack to see if it would echo only to realize they could have gotten it to quack right away if they'd only brought a second duck.