Originally Posted by
phughes
If a bike falls outside a convenience store, because it doesn't have a kickstand, and no one is around, does it make a sound?
No.
At least not by the US Navy's definition of "sound," the correctness of which I am unsure of to this day, almost 27 years after I learned it in Sonar Technician A-school.
Per Uncle Sam, "sound" is the acoustic energy transmitted from a source, through a medium,
to a receiver. Without a receiver, it's just acoustic energy, not sound.
Yeah, it's definitional and nit-picky and almost circular, but it made me giggle when I first heard it, and it still does.
--Shannon