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by seamac3 1051 days ago
Electrolytes? Better conduction of EMF? Just a guess.
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jacknobody 1051 days ago
There the piece suggests that KCl conduction is sufficient to enable the electric- acoustic effect, and brine is sea water, which also conducts.

So maybe a matrix of sensitive microphones in the sea can detect the direction of a radio signal.

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jacknobody 1051 days ago
In fact a silly idea I had
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baerrie 1051 days ago
There are no silly ideas!
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jacknobody 1050 days ago
Thank you :)
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