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• As the philosopher Thomas Nagel noted, it must “be like” something to be a bat, but what that is we cannot even imagine—because we cannot imagine what it would be like to observe the world through a kind of sonar.

• It’s similar to how a bat uses sonar to “see” its surroundings.

• That was the only way to explain the thermocline, a zone of rapidly decreasing temperature that separates warm surface waters from the frigid deep ocean, which affected naval sonar.

• The scientific goals of the expeditions are always secondary, although splurging for the sonar mapping system turns out to be key in verifying their world-record-holding status.

• Uncrewed ships equipped with sonar spot suspicious objects from different angles, and an extended telescopic arm wields a nail gun to attach an explosive charge.

• It had advanced sonar—aimed not at the ocean floor but at other subs and shipping—and drew a blank.

• They are loaded with state-of-the art sonar and radar equipment.

• Or how about powerful sonar blasts the U.S. Navy is using in the waters off southern California?

• Before that, in December 2011, it won a $691 million U.S. Navy subcontract for “combat and sonar systems” for submarines.

• He was talking about the sonar beacon linked to the black box of Air France Flight 447.

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