I don't understand, it's impossible not to hear the crickets.
At some point someone jokes/suspects/postulates the presence of accoustic warfare. (tangentially, why do crickets spend so much energy creating that power level of noise? is it to annoy other species away and claim the area as theirs?)
Up to there I can follow with how the embassy reacted. But the moment you suspect and attach importance to the possibility of accoustic warfare, why just send them to the doctor? Medicine works on subtle percentages with large sample sizes. They save lives and livelihood mostly statistically, and not individually in the context of new threats (new virus strain, new weapon, newly recognized cancer...)
It was impossible not to hear the crickets before, so at that point the most rational question becomes: what power spectrum should we expect from those annoying crickets outside?
Why didn't they simply sollicit help from people with actual domain knowledge? normal engineers and sound engineers, physicists, biologists, ...? Why not rent a thermal camera, and survey the local environment, map out the location and density of individual crickets, estimate the total number etc. Then isolate a bunch of crickets and keep them fed, and transport them to a place without crickets (ship them to a ship or whatever), then record a few thousand of their individdual chirps at different distances. Then you can simply calculate/simulate the total sum of both synchronized and unsyncronized chirping behaviours, not sure how to model the synchronization? look at that shelf with the Steven Strogatz book, and if necessary just ask him if he (or one of his grad students) can help out... ffs this whole kindergarten drama can be viewed as an inadvertent leak (poor tradecraft) revealing you organizationally don't even try to get at the bottom of things anymore! All the leet access to backdoors has made the agencies lazy and complacent. It appeared like you no longer needed to select the best and the brightest, ... so you just put your daughter and son in the organization?? pfff
At some point someone jokes/suspects/postulates the presence of accoustic warfare. (tangentially, why do crickets spend so much energy creating that power level of noise? is it to annoy other species away and claim the area as theirs?)
Up to there I can follow with how the embassy reacted. But the moment you suspect and attach importance to the possibility of accoustic warfare, why just send them to the doctor? Medicine works on subtle percentages with large sample sizes. They save lives and livelihood mostly statistically, and not individually in the context of new threats (new virus strain, new weapon, newly recognized cancer...)
It was impossible not to hear the crickets before, so at that point the most rational question becomes: what power spectrum should we expect from those annoying crickets outside?
Why didn't they simply sollicit help from people with actual domain knowledge? normal engineers and sound engineers, physicists, biologists, ...? Why not rent a thermal camera, and survey the local environment, map out the location and density of individual crickets, estimate the total number etc. Then isolate a bunch of crickets and keep them fed, and transport them to a place without crickets (ship them to a ship or whatever), then record a few thousand of their individdual chirps at different distances. Then you can simply calculate/simulate the total sum of both synchronized and unsyncronized chirping behaviours, not sure how to model the synchronization? look at that shelf with the Steven Strogatz book, and if necessary just ask him if he (or one of his grad students) can help out... ffs this whole kindergarten drama can be viewed as an inadvertent leak (poor tradecraft) revealing you organizationally don't even try to get at the bottom of things anymore! All the leet access to backdoors has made the agencies lazy and complacent. It appeared like you no longer needed to select the best and the brightest, ... so you just put your daughter and son in the organization?? pfff