In Reply to: Ear sensitivity posted by Neff on April 8, 2011 at 09:34:36:
> The article stated if eyes were as sensitive as hearing, in outer space
> the eye located above NY could detect a 60 watt bulb in Los Angeles.
Hmmm. When I was at Stanford, my undergraduate advisor was researching the composition of the rings of Saturn by performing signal processing on radio waves emitted by by the Voyager spacecraft as they passed through the rings while the probe flew by the planet.
That means detecting an 18W transmitter at a distance of 1.2 billion kilometers.
Think the human ear could match that? :-)
-Henry
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- RE: Ear sensitivity - op48no1 19:48:49 04/08/11 (7)
- In the Barrio, or de 'Hood - drlowmu 14:22:02 04/09/11 (1)
- RE: In the Barrio, or de 'Hood - op48no1 08:50:07 04/10/11 (0)
- Maybe the ear can match Voyager's small signal - kurt s 21:00:49 04/08/11 (3)
- Numeracy - op48no1 13:59:38 04/09/11 (1)
- Well, let me state the assumptions I made - kurt s 17:10:56 04/09/11 (0)
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- RE: Ear sensitivity - Neff 20:52:32 04/08/11 (0)