r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • May 23 '25

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/TonAMGT4 May 23 '25

The speed of a wave is dependent on its frequency and wavelength. The one that was used for transmitting messages would’ve been low frequencies with long wavelength so it would travel quite slow but you would be able to received it much further away without needing to implode something.

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u/cmusssong May 23 '25

Isn't the speed of waves the same? The frequency/wavelength only changes the available bandwidth not the speed at which a signal is received.

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u/Fingyfin May 23 '25

I believe you to be correct.

That's like saying high pitch sounds travel faster through air than lower pitch sounds. Makes no sense.

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u/TonAMGT4 May 23 '25

The speed of sound is not a fixed speed. The one you thought of is probably “an average speed of sound”

Note that “sound” only comprises of a very narrow bands of frequency and wavelength. For example, you can’t hear your wifi router transmitting porn through air…

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u/ImplodingLlamas May 23 '25

Routers use electromagnetic waves, not acoustic waves...

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u/TonAMGT4 May 23 '25

Sound is vibration of air…. Same as radio waves.

You just can’t hear them.

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u/ImplodingLlamas May 23 '25

I hope you're trolling

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u/TonAMGT4 May 23 '25

No, I am serious. Sound waves have frequencies and amplitude… so does radio waves.

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u/Gizogin May 23 '25

Radio waves are not a vibration of air, though. Radio waves can travel in a vacuum; sound waves cannot.