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A comment on Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A. Parent comment

Re:Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A by ntsplnkv2 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:44AM (#22749089)
Can you explain this further?
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Re:Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A by SECProto on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:12AM (#22749462)
If you doubled the length of an owl (or any other object) by scaling it up, then it would quadruple (2²) the surface area, and octuple (2³) the volume.

The parent comment seemed to be suggesting the noise would scale with the surface area, while mass scales with the volume. The latter is definitely true, but I don't know about the former

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