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Can YOU hear relative water temperature?
- Thread starter SharpCat
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Most people don't appreciate how much information we receive through our ears because it's just assumed that because we see most of our information, that what we hear is necessarily far less important.
When I was a young man, I had a mentor teach me several difficult skills, including forestry, sailing, and piloting an airplane. One of my first lessons was paying attention to all of your senses.
Felling trees is one of the most dangerous jobs in existence and developing the ability to hear what's happening inside the tree you're cutting is very valuable in reducing the risk of catestrophic injury.
Hearing is likewise important for sailing a boat or piloting an airplane. Even subtle variations of the wind interacting with your water or air craft gives you a tremendous amount of useful information.
It's always interesting to me how experienced professionals can know certain information based on subtle sound differences that others can't hear.
Many mechanics are highly skilled at diagnosing difficult mechanical problems through sound alone. There are even mechanics who can identify the exact engine that's in a car without seeing it, simply be listening to it run.
When I was a young man, I had a mentor teach me several difficult skills, including forestry, sailing, and piloting an airplane. One of my first lessons was paying attention to all of your senses.
Felling trees is one of the most dangerous jobs in existence and developing the ability to hear what's happening inside the tree you're cutting is very valuable in reducing the risk of catestrophic injury.
Hearing is likewise important for sailing a boat or piloting an airplane. Even subtle variations of the wind interacting with your water or air craft gives you a tremendous amount of useful information.
It's always interesting to me how experienced professionals can know certain information based on subtle sound differences that others can't hear.
Many mechanics are highly skilled at diagnosing difficult mechanical problems through sound alone. There are even mechanics who can identify the exact engine that's in a car without seeing it, simply be listening to it run.
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I am going through hearing loss and it is not fun at all so I am happy to hear when the water is running, forget about telling the temperature of it. My right ear is worse than my left and I can't tell which direction a sound is coming from. If someone speaks to me and I am not looking at them it is almost like a game to find them. I may end up dying in my sleep because of my ears and my mouth. After my last visit to my ENT my wife asked me, "What did the doctor say?" I replied, "How should I how? I'm deaf." Judging by the look she gave me, I thought that might be the night I would die. Take care of your ears (and just because you think it, you don't have to say it.)Yup.
I hear a lot of things that are subtle or do not exist to most.
Hearing is our most useful sense right there with sight. We can hear things not seen, ears are the eyes in the side/back of your head.
That is why the electric cars make wooshy and other noises. People did not realize how much we hear to see cars when walking around until cars were made with no sound.
The other day I told The Wife to turn off the shower she just turned on because I could not hear myself shaving. She was confused.
Outside with some people, "A deer is coming" a minute later it is in sight.
Two days ago while at the far opposite side of the yard about a hundred feet away, I heard a rustling in the bushes that was different. Start heading that way then my chicken makes a faint bock, I run. Got there just in time to pull a raccoon off of the bird before it caused her any harm. Two seconds later blood would have been drawn.
I heard/seen it before it came into my vision.
Wear your hearing protection when gigging or going to or doing anything loud. The ears help you see and feel the world around you.
I was a little surprised to see that the only two reactions to your post so far was people laughing, which I guess just shows they've never been anywhere cold before.
It may be more subtle at warmer temps, but once you've been out walking around at -50 it's impossible not to notice the differences in sound, especially the sound of the snow as you walk.
