[Blindtlk] Echolocation: How it Works

[Carly Mihalakis]

Evening, Gary,

         Reminds me of when I was in high school and I counted 
pillars without touching them. They had me in O&M, before my brain 
changed such that O&M became as ineffective as it ever was.At 12:06 
PM 9/15/2014, Gary Wunder via blindtlk wrote:
>I mentioned last week a sad story about echolocation that found my poor aunt
>face up against a garage door. I have one more story, one which is probably
>a bit easier to take.
>
>When my grandson was about nine years old, we went out walking, and he
>observed that I could go around cars without touching them with my cane. He
>asked how I could do this, and I tried to explain the concept of
>echolocation. He thought about it for a minute and then said "how do you
>really do it?" In frustration I said that a little ghosts told me, and,
>without one bit of reservation he said, "I knew you were cheating." I guess
>the moral of the story is that it is easier to believe in a ghost on my
>shoulder than that I can figure out how to get around large objects based on
>reflected sound.
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