"This," she said, touching... «Into the Drowning Deep»
RamingoWS12 апреля 2018"This," she said, touching the top line of waves and curves, "is the standard sonar reading for that area. We`ve had blips before -- surprisingly little whale song, given how remote it is and how rich the water has historically been; we`d expect a place like that to be a popular feeding ground, and it isn`t -- but most of the time, the water looks like this." "And what is 'this'?" asked Katherine. "The song of the sea," said Luis. Brian raised an eyebrow. "That`s surprisingly poetic." "Studying the ocean forces you to be poetic, because we haven`t worn all those ideas and concepts soft around the edges yet," said Luis. "The language is still mired in the maritime, and I don`t know that it`s going to catch up anytime soon." "Water sings," said Tory. Luis could talk for hours about the words used to describe the ocean. If she let him get started, they were going to be here for a while, and she wanted to get ot the lab as soon as possible. "It`s a function of the way it moves. Everything makes a sound, and vibrations hang in water for much longer than they can hang in air. They travel further, too. It`s why whales can communicate with each other even when they`re miles apart." Air was too thin, compared to water, to really carry sound. There was no such thing as silence in the sea.
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