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What could go wrong with blasting out ultrasonic noise in every direction? (Besides a lot of confused dogs...)



Starving bats. Bats keep moth and mosquito populations down in some areas. They use ultrasonic acquisition of their prey.

Rodents less likely to nest near you may be a positive thing.


Great story here:

he said, "Watch the moths." It turns out the moths, through evolution, had developed their own electronic countermeasures to jam the bat radar

https://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%E2%80%99d-...


A lot of confused hearing aid users.


Currently wearing noise cancelling headphones and wondered what would happen with them, but hearing aids would be a much bigger concern. I would wonder if since hearing aids are so focused on human hearing that they would have filters that would block out any sounds outside the human hearing range.




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