How come???

from JoeUser Forums
Ever since i heard about it, i've never stopped wondering how can it be that the 'quack' of a duck doesnt echo?

How come, goddamit, HOW COME?

(Anyone who gets an aswer to that wins my everlasting respect & admiration...)
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I've wondered that too, but I have no answers so I will just have to learn to live without your everlasting respect and admiration. ;~D

I just wish the same could be said of some doctors. Wouldn't it be great if those quacks never came back?? ;~D
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
i am not sure, but i think that if it was loud enough and in a room larger than9x9 metres, (the rules for echoes, (important bit->)**the object the sound bounces off has to be on average about 4.5 meters away for the human ear to be able to discern it from the original sound**, plus it just has to be loud enough to hear it well enough after it travels nine meters) if it still doesn't echoe after all this is taken into account it could just be the frequency (low pitched sounds travel further) that the quack is on. i hope that this answered your question, even though it was all mainly assumptions, it should have covered at least some ground anyway.
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Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
High society ducks quacks never echo, cause their quacks have been plugged by d' shrink.
Fo unpluggin' twy Elmer Fuds shotgun by da ear. eh eh eh whatzuuuup Doc.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good Ol' Snopes.com!!!

Ironic, I've been to that siite to confirm or deny all sorts of things, but I never even gave the Duck's Quack statement a second thought.

I guess there's no hope in preventing the Quack doctor from coming back either. ;~(
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

I guess there's no hope in preventing the Quack doctor from coming back either. ;~(

This Quack Doc echoes, the the doctor is on the air!

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
So all this time i was wondering about a lie *slap my forehead and roll my eyes*

Thanks Dr Guy you're the best! Dr Devious, even if your comment was written in pink (panther, hee hee) thanks for trying.

ParaTed, haha, you really got me laughing with your comments! I guess we'll never get rid of the bastards

the doctor is on the air!

whatever goes up must come down i say!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
When in doubt you can always ask Cedil.. Link
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mythbusters had proven that duck's quacks DO echo, but it sounds basically the same as the orginial, so it's "hidden".
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bichur: Interesting link and cute smiley! thanks for stopping by

XX, yeah, one of my friends told me when i mentioned the mystery of the quack of a duck to him. He was like D'oh!

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Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Lol. It's funny to post information on anything related to sounds. It's like a blind person giving advice on colors.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Heh, it's true XX, maybe we should just record the quack of a duck echoing... but then again people are so suspecious they probably wont believe it until they have a written fancy explanationt supporting the theory.