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Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We’re putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3238/
Sound is funny. At lower frequencies it behaves increasingly similarly to air i.e. wrapping around obstacles instead of just reflecting. At 0Hz sound is just the local air pressure and the weather forecast is technically sheet music.
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Thought this was from the hover text for a second!
It’s an awesome comment, it totally could have been the hover text.
Stands to reason. Vivaldi did compose the seasons after all
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