Re: communication

["Jeff Duke" <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>]

> Light message is faster because the fire can be seen at greater
> distance...

Damn we have a burn ban on...
Remember the great wood fires that were lit to call for help in the Lord 
of 
the Rings?

> Here in Scandinavia we have an old vocalist tradition that developed
> - jeezz... must be more than thousand years ago

Interesting, I used to call the cattle in when I worked on ranches in 
Texas 
many years ago. The nearest would hear you and seemed to call for the 
others. The sound would travel a long ways.

Geetings from Florida

j

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: communication


> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> I am wondering how long it would take to send a drum message to Rick in
>> Santa Cruz from my apt in Ocala, Florida. How many people would it take
>> provided we all knew the language.  Mapquest says 2718 mi.
>
> Light message is faster because the fire can be seen at greater
> distance and needs less "middle men". Both light and sound message
> needs the middle men to wait for the message to complete before
> sending it on to the next guy.
>
> Here in Scandinavia we have an old vocalist tradition that developed
> - jeezz... must be more than thousand years ago - as a call for cows.
> Cows were sent out to walk freely in the woods and certain sound
> frequencies tended to carry better over far distances. When thinking
> about it, I'm not really sure about why this is a female vocal
> tradition: is it because the female tonal frequency worked better for
> calling back the cows or is it because the men had other things on
> their agendas back in those days?
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
>


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