on Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:29:38 -0400 (EDT) James Frusetta <gerakkag_at_wam.umd.edu>
wrote:
> Bill McKinley wrote:
> > The obvious disadvantage of active sonar is that the pulses can be
> > detected - bad news if you are lurking around in a submarine - and
> > passive sonar provides much less information.
> IMO, every troll has a slightly different darksense "ping," and *normally*
> they hear only that one. (Otherwise, it'd be fairly difficult AFAIK for a
> group of trolls to all use Darksense at the same time)...
Surely they are `blinded' no ore often than a group of humans wearing
head lamps (as miners do), and perhaps less, since the transmission
is continual rather than continuous.
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