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[–] [email protected] 118 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Wait a minute

Have we been pulping marine wildlife this whole time? I just connected the dots there

[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 days ago

Yep. Its fucked. Literally drives whales to beach themselves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_mammals_and_sonar

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Like 10,000 dolphins were killed in the black sea in 2022 because of sonar.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's fucked. Hopefully aliens do the same thing to Earth soon.👽

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey, man. Why do you hate dolphins so much that you want aliens to kill another 10,000?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] JohnDClay 2 points 13 hours ago

Aw, we don't have a Lemmy switchroo link tree yet.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago

There's two types of military SONAR: active and passive. Active SONAR is using pings and listening for the echo, but it's not very commonly used by submarines. Passive sonar is just listening out for engine noise from ships and prop noise from other submarines. Warships use active SONAR more because they're already noisy and so if they think an enemy submarine is in the area they'll use it to try and locate, but in peacetime it's mostly reserved for training exercises. It's still terrible for wildlife, even if they don't die it's very distressing and disorientating but it's not constantly scanning like a RADAR.