I've read several things postulating that humans with extra good hearing/sensory-spatial processing could be doing "passive" echolocation - using reflections of normal ambient noises to locate things, like clock ticks or cars passing or whatever. Is that just total bullshit? It always sounded to me like something that was just on the edge of possible if you're already allowing supersenses, but not likely. I mean, you wouldn't be able to catch mosquitoes in flight, but you might be able to punch someone in the face from it.
(I calculate distances and depths from reflections of ambient light without having to generate my own light source, after all....)
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Date: 2018-10-14 02:44 pm (UTC)I've read several things postulating that humans with extra good hearing/sensory-spatial processing could be doing "passive" echolocation - using reflections of normal ambient noises to locate things, like clock ticks or cars passing or whatever. Is that just total bullshit? It always sounded to me like something that was just on the edge of possible if you're already allowing supersenses, but not likely. I mean, you wouldn't be able to catch mosquitoes in flight, but you might be able to punch someone in the face from it.
(I calculate distances and depths from reflections of ambient light without having to generate my own light source, after all....)