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I like this franchise but like others said, it makes no sense how their hearing works.

It can’t work like echo location because they can click right in front of people and not “see” them. But if that’s the case how can they tell the difference between sounds other people make and all that fukking noise they and the other aliens make themselves? Them damn things be crashing windows and smashing cars all over the place but then they will hear someone step on a candy bar down the street and head that way.
 

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I like this franchise but like others said, it makes no sense how their hearing works.

It can’t work like echo location because they can click right in front of people and not “see” them. But if that’s the case how can they tell the difference between sounds other people make and all that fukking noise they and the other aliens make themselves? Them damn things be crashing windows and smashing cars all over the place but then they will hear someone step on a candy bar down the street and head that way.

try noise cancelling headphones.

anything you hear is an alien kill.

they block out steady and low pitch sounds better.



they run together because they hear the noise an follow each other. nothing odd about the way that works.

we might be invisible to them but maybe they can see each other. maybe they emit a noise that humans cannot hear so they can id each other.

like dolphins.

 

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try noise cancelling headphones.

anything you hear is an alien kill.

they block out steady and low pitch sounds better.



they run together because they hear the noise an follow each other. nothing odd about the way that works.

we might be invisible to them but maybe they can see each other. maybe they emit a noise that humans cannot hear so they can id each other.

like dolphins.



It’s a lot of “maybe”, “might”, etc… when trying to explain how they know the difference between a human causing an alarm and an alarm going off because one of their kind knocked some debris 50 yards away and it hit a car. They react to one of those situations but not the other.
 

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It’s a lot of “maybe”, “might”, etc… when trying to explain how they know the difference between a human causing an alarm and an alarm going off because one of their kind knocked some debris 50 yards away and it hit a car. They react to one of those situations but not the other.

nope. 100% they don't know the difference until they arrive locally.

and then they talk to each other.

also:

they attack cars all of the time.

also:

our sight is inhibited by objects. mice don't think our vision is inconsistent because we can't see them when they are behind something.

there are rules to sight.

like they have rules to their vision / hearing.

also:

they are clearly more sensitive to high frequencies. ergo frequency matters.

in addition the direction of low frequencies is harder to detect.


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also:

radar issues. radar detection depends on what things are made of.

"Radar cross-section (RCS), denoted σ, also called radar signature, is a measure of how detectable an object is by radar. A larger RCS indicates that an object is more easily detected.[1]"

"Material
Materials such as metal are strongly radar reflective and tend to produce strong signals. Wood and cloth (such as portions of airplanes and balloons used to be commonly made) or plastic and fibreglass are less reflective or indeed transparent to radar making them suitable for radomes. Even a very thin layer of metal can make an object strongly radar reflective. Chaff is often made from metallised plastic or glass (in a similar manner to metallised foils on food stuffs) with microscopically thin layers of metal."

humans are soft bodied. low echo location would detect hard surfaces and miss soft ones.



also:

radar does not work as well in the rain / snow.

our world is bathed in EM signals which could throw off bio electrical sensory systems.

also: CGPT

"Yes, echolocation is affected by the softness of materials. Soft materials tend to absorb sound waves rather than reflecting them efficiently, leading to weaker or less distinct echoes. This makes it harder for echolocating animals, like bats or dolphins, or for sonar systems, to detect soft objects compared to hard surfaces, which reflect sound waves more effectively and produce clearer echoes."

soft humans are hard to detect.
 

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Entertaining at some point, but definitely weak af.

I get it it was all within a day but idk… it was definitely more about accepting fate
 
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