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    Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation

    Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    Ok, how about we get something like this going for us colorblind folks. We get the short end of every rainbow straw.
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    10/08/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: You get genetically engineered monkeys. [io9.com]
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    10/08/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.:
    I dont know. . . all you need is some old guy playing cowboy saloon tunes on a piano and your world would be like a Charlie Chaplin movie.
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    Image of Daumier Daumier
    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    I've been kind of skeptical of the efficacy of this technique since I heard of it. I don't doubt that you can tell some things about a the objects or the space you're in by listening to echoes, but some of the things that these people are rumored to be able to do using solely this method seem overblown.

    Maybe I'm just not doing it right.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    10/08/09

    @Daumier: I wouldn't be surprized that if you learn it when you're quite young, and don't have working eyesight to distract you, the brain could re-task itself to process auditory information in a more visual way--perhaps even utilizing the otherwise useless visual cortex.

    So, I wouldn't be surprised if these kids can, in a way, "see" with sound. It's probably a tiny fraction of what a bat or a dolphin can do, but it's not hard to believe that the technique is quite effective with practice.
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    10/08/09

    @Daumier:
    Why so skeptical?
    I watched a report on a teenager in America who uses this technique too.
    I saw him running down a crowded hallway at his school and around a corner, dodging other kids.
    Out in the open, walking past cars, he could tell where all the cars were and where the gaps were. This, with all the other noise going on.
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    10/09/09

    @Anekanta: Yup, just try looking up the documentary of Ben Underwood, a guy who actually taught himself echolocation all by himself.

    Having seen him rollerblading down the street full tilt despite being completely blind was pretty cool.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    When the batboy grows up, will people call him the batman? `Cause Warner Brothers might sue...
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    10/08/09

    @Anekanta: maybe they will call him the daRK KNIGHT
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    Disadvantages: He has to avoid bell towers from now on.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    Well, if he doesn't graduate law school and becomes a crimefighting vigilante, he's a failure to blind kids as far as I'm concerned.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    But can he fight Jennifer Garner to a standstill in his school's playground?
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
    But has he learned the most important lesson - when they turn his life's story into a movie, don't let Ben Affleck play you.
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    10/08/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: I'd rate nailing Elektra as more important, specially if she looks like Jennifer Garner
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    10/08/09

    @Dirk Anger: But then you really better make sure it's you there, and not Ben Affleck
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
    I can tell the difference between trees and pavement NOW, thank you...
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/30/09

    @Autobot Kpibca: You sure?


    What kind of tree is that?


    *points out the window*

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    06/30/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: An elm tree?
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    07/01/09

    @Autobot Kpibca: Ha! It was pavement!
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
    Forget this fancy-shmancy echolocation; I bet I can learn the difference between pavement and trees in probably three, four days tops.


    Instead, teach me Eckolocation, Eccolocation, or Ekolocation. These could all be much more useful skills.

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    06/30/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I need Eggolocation. With this I shall never have to ask people to leggo my Eggo.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
    Didn't one of The Fin's henchmen try this in The Tick vs Reno, NV?
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
    Can I sign up for this. I would love this ability right now.
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    06/30/09

    @NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.:Unfortunately the only real way to awaken the bat in you is to have your parents gunned down in front of you.


    But if you act now we will give you spider powers for the price of your uncle.

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    @OW-Holmes:Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.: What can I get for a half-cousin?
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    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: The inability to tell the difference between coke and pepsi.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
    Now I can finally talk to dolphins and ask them what they REALLY think of "Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus."
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    06/30/09

    @bonniegrrl: Don't bother, the answer is invariably KKKKRKKKKKRKRRKKKKK*clickyclick*
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    06/30/09

    @The_Sporean_Bob: "Two fins up!"
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
    I signed up as a test subject for a study notexactly like this. I cannot echolocate but I have an insatiable craving for moths.
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