Catherine said yesterday: "Mom, I want to talk underwater."
I began an explanation about how that didn't work very well because air is necessary to transmit the sound when she interrupted me:
"But what about Ariel?"
Um, yeah, Ariel can talk underwater in the movie just fine. You do have a point there.
Can those pesky Santa sleigh logistics questions be far behind?
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Perhaps mermaids talk more like dolphins & whales do ...
But can SANTA talk under water???
I have no idea!!! How can we test it??
water transmits sound just beautifully. we don't breathe in air to speak (go ahead, try it, possible but not optimal), we expel air when we speak. the problem is that then we can't absorb enough air under water to breathe and demise or surfacing quickly follow.
first you have to kidnap santa.. (cue Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton)
Rachel - Yeah, you have a point. I was making up an answer to kind of avoid the question.... I thought the physics of sound transmission might be beyond her grasp right now.
So how does Ariel do it, then? Alternately breathe water or air as she chooses?
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