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Absolute Hearing

stalepie

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Sound waves only travel so far, I think, so it wouldn't be possible to hear infinitely.
 
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Sound waves only travel so far, I think, so it wouldn't be possible to hear infinitely.

Especially in the vacuum of space. :rolleyes: Or the vacuum of 'audiophilia'. o_O
 
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I often wonder how difficult life is for our dogs seeing how they can hear many more sounds and smell many more scents. It would be like being a crowd all the time.

Dog normality. Not a problem.
 

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By some estimates our sensory bandwidth is near 90% for vision and perhaps 9% for hearing. All the others are far less. I wonder if a dog, since it sees like a red-green color blind human with weaker color representations and about 1/4th the visual acuity devote more sensory bandwidth to hearing and smell in which case like wombat says dog normality. Dogs do see better in low light levels than humans. Just not much detail.
 
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