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sound too stubborn to die, bouncing back to remind you the canyon was listening

means A sound that returns to the listener after bouncing off a surface, repeating fainter than the original.

from From the Greek nymph Echo, cursed to speak only the last words others said — she pined for Narcissus until nothing remained but her voice. The Greeks gave her name, ēchō, to the word for 'sound' itself, and it passed through Latin echo into English, carrying her endless repetition with it.

speed limit
needs 17 meters distance or ears blur it
bat tech
bats hunt by reading their own echoes
greek tragedy
a cursed nymph doomed to repeat others
submarine eyes
sonar maps oceans using echo timing
sound mirror
echoes obey the same angle as light
for instance

echo lake new hampshire — mountain lake in conway, nh, named for its acoustic reflection properties across 4 miles of water

echo and narcissus — greek myth where echo the nymph wastes away pining for narcissus, visible in ovid's metamorphoses

echo location in bats — biological sonar used by bats to navigate, producing sounds up to 200 khz to detect objects

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