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Just how off-topic does something need to be in order to post it here? Do we get extra credit for things that are more off-topic?
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Hey, did you know that a duck's quack doesn't echo?
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Have added this to the wiki :-)
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I strongly suspect that's an urban legend, and I think I remember reading a debunking somewhere.
They actually did this one on Mythbusters. As it turns out, a duck's quack has an odd waveform that tends to cancel itself out better than a lot of other sounds. What actually happens is that an echoing quack sounds just about like a non-echoing quack - that is, a duck's quack sounds like it's echoing even when it isn't, so if you're familiar with what ducks sound like, you won't notice it echoing.
Actually, don't read the above. It's terrible. Instead, read the synopsis at Wikipedia
Yes, CronoDAS, it's a modern myth. Physicists haven't missed an obvious way in which their understanding fails to predict the world.
Well, at least not involving that particular obvious way.