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Gerard Weatherby
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The best NG in the world!
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 06:37:17 -0400,
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Not being a "physic=y" person, but having this knowledge in layman's terms, lower tones carry farther over water and also the
human ear can pick up the lower tones farther away than it can higher tonew...it would also be very unpleasant to have higher
tomes...all the dogs on the shore would howl and everyone would go nuts after awhile...
Lower tones are also less directionally focused.
Not really. The ability to determine the source of the sound is determined by
the receiver, not the transmitter. Our ears are too close together to get a
bearing on low frequency sound.
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