Stranger Than Fiction

George Grand
George Grand Posts: 12,258
in The Clubhouse
The way I see it, you can attend a concert at a large concert venue (mid-way back auditorium seats) in San Francisco, and I can be here in Jersey listening to a live broadcast of that same concert on a rig. I say that even though you are sitting there in sight of the performers, and listening to the actual vibrations coming off their instruments, while I'm listening to an electronic reproduction of that live event from a continent away, I would hear sounds before you. Especially if I semi-cheated and used headphones at my end. The speed of light is a mother.

I usually don't think about stuff like this on my own.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,602
    And You're not out a $100 a ticket, either.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,789
    Or standing next to stinky drunk dancing bear guy ... :s
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,016
    Or $10 beers
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,981
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    And You're not out a $100 a ticket, either.

    That would be cheap by Chicago standards. Any half way decent concert here with decent unobstructed views is min. 150 bucks per ticket. Add in parking at 20-30 bucks, dinner and a few cocktails and your well over 500 bucks to go see something.

    I can snag a couple plane tickets to the Bahamas for that.

    October I went to a ball game, White Sox....bought the cheap seats. By the time I paid for parking, food and drinks, gas....200+ bucks went missing from the wallet. I could have stayed home and watched it on tv, spent the 2 bones on a nice bottle of vino and still had money left over for a new G-string and a pizza. Isn't that how your suppose to watch ballgames anyway ?

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,304
    tonyb wrote: »
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    And You're not out a $100 a ticket, either.

    still had money left over for a new G-string and a pizza. Isn't that how your suppose to watch ballgames anyway ?
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,016
    Yeah tony, I used to go to several football games at Lambeau every year (actually when I lived in Green Bay I went to every home game) but now its turned into a very expensive hassle and I don't feel like putting up with the boorish drunks who don't really know football anyway, so I now I've been putting that saved dough toward audio gear. Lol.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    Where's Swauger when I need him? Somebody do the math. From SF to Jersey at the speed of light, versus the middle of the stage to the middle of the concert hall at the speed of sound. Which is fleeter?

    You guys need to see a game in Filthy, where I understand they beat the snot out of you for even THINKING about rooting against their beloved Eagles. Neanderthals.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited December 2015
    Well George, let's make some assumptions. First off let's assume I'm sitting 50' from the nearest PA speaker in the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco. At the speed of sound, at sea level, it will take 0.0444 seconds to reach me. You are located in Jersey City, NJ (I don't know where you live but Jersey City sounds nice) which is 2,564.69 miles from San Francisco. The electrical signal that leaves the sound engineer's mixing board has to first travel the 2.0 miles to radio station KQED in San Francisco and then via radio broadcast the intervening distance to Jersey City (I know FM reception doesn't extend much beyond 35 or 40 miles, but let's pretend it can). So the total distance the signal has to travel is 2,566.69 miles at the speed of light. This would be accomplished in 0.01379 seconds, which is faster than I would hear it.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    Thank you. I ran some numbers myself and came up with .0123655 for the speed of light trip, and .194444 for the speed of sound trip. I think we're right. Fascinating.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    You forgot the FCC mandated 6 second delay in a broadcast signal so sensors can block any objectionable content. Leave it to the government to trump physics. :D
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,902
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    You forgot the FCC mandated 6 second delay in a broadcast signal so sensors can block any objectionable content. Leave it to the government to trump physics. :D

    heh. He said "Trump"... heh-heh, heh-heh-heh.

    Otherwise, I am with George on this one (perish the thought)!
    I am sure George was just sitting back in his La-z-boy recliner, quaffing some Fladgate port and reflecting on the recent centenary of the publication of Einstein's work on general relativity.

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/einsteins-genius-changed-sciences-perception-gravity

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    either that, or maybe he was... you know... puffin' the magic dragon.

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,593
    lightman1 wrote: »
    Or standing next to stinky drunk dancing bear guy ... :s

    Hey you don't need to make fun of yourself Russ :wink:
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,789
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    lightman1 wrote: »
    Or standing next to stinky drunk dancing bear guy ... :s

    Hey you don't need to make fun of yourself Russ :wink:

    Somebody has to be the dingus in the crowd.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    Let's enlist Senator Franken's help in applying the physics.

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,787
    edited June 2021
    Mr. Grand blowing peoples' minds for decades 🤯

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,566
    Some good stuff here.
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