New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie

Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ... by dylan604 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:21PM (#23440248)

2) It's amazing how perspective changes with more information. It is very odd how much that sounds just like a mower having difficulty starting, and is exactly the conclusion I would have jumped to it being. Glad you were able to get a better answer.

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Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ... by dustym on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:25PM (#23440766)

Yeah, I thought it was a generator or mower at first. It's just quiet enough that I mistook it for a much louder sound that had grown faint due to my distance from the source.

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Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ... by chubot on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:39PM (#23441353)

Are the birds imitating sounds they heard in the forest?

Mimicry is a powerful thing

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Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ... by dylan604 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @03:17PM (#23441570)

I went deeper down the rabbit hole, and it is their mating call / territorial signal. The drumming sound is actually created from a vacuum effect caused by the particular movement of their wings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vERkh23mp64

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Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ... by tejtm on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:56PM (#23442581)

It's a mating call that predates combustion engines most likely by millennia(s)

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Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ... by dylan604 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @07:12PM (#23443181)

I wonder how long Poly has wanted a cracker

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Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ... by tejtm on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:43PM (#23443670)

Two billion years give or take

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